Good Morning! Here is today’s breakdown:

  • Google unveils Gemini Intelligence

  • Thinking Machines drops its first model

  • Full Claude Projects guide for beginners step by step

  • How to Use Google Gemini in Google Docs & Drive

  • 4 new AI tools worth trying

AI TOOLS

Google unveiled Gemini Intelligence at The Android Show 2026, marking Android's transition from an operating system to what Google calls an "intelligence system." Instead of waiting for prompts, Gemini can now read your screen, navigate apps, and complete multi-step tasks autonomously across the phone.

  • Long-press the power button over a grocery list screenshot and Gemini builds the cart in your shopping app of choice, with you only confirming the final purchase

  • Gemini in Chrome for Android adds an auto-browse mode that researches, compares info, and books tickets or parking on your behalf

  • Rambler converts your messy spoken thoughts into polished multilingual text in real time, stripping filler words automatically

  • "Vibe-coded" widgets let you describe a dashboard ("weekly high-protein meals" or "cycling tracker with wind and rainfall only") and have Gemini generate it on your home screen

  • Opt-in autofill pulls data from connected apps to complete complex forms across Android and Chrome

The phone is becoming the agent. Google is collapsing the chatbot box and embedding an autonomous AI layer directly into the OS that powers more than 97% of smartphones in markets like India. For builders, this means an entire generation of users will soon expect "describe what you want" to trigger actual work across apps, not just produce a paragraph of advice. Rolling out this summer on Samsung Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10, then to watches, cars, glasses, and laptops later this year.

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AI MODELS

After more than a year of silence and $2 billion of capital, Thinking Machines Lab released TML-Interaction-Small, a research preview of a new model class called "interaction models" built for real-time, full-duplex conversation. Unlike turn-based AI, it processes input and generates a response simultaneously, more like a phone call than a text chain.

  • Hits 0.40 seconds turn-taking latency, roughly natural human conversation speed, versus 1.18 seconds for GPT-Realtime-2.0 and 0.57 seconds for Gemini-3.1-flash-live

  • Uses a multi-stream, micro-turn architecture: continuous parallel streams for audio, video, and text in 200ms chunks instead of one flattened token sequence

  • Delegates hard reasoning to a separate background model, weaving results into live conversation without a noticeable pause

  • Natively time-aware, so it can handle requests like "remind me every 4 minutes" or "alert me if this takes longer than last time" without a tool wrapper

  • Demos include real-time posture correction (interrupts the moment you slouch), live translation whispered in your ear, and building data visualizations while you're still describing them

While OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are racing on autonomous agents, Thinking Machines is betting that real-time, full-duplex interaction is a different problem requiring its own architecture, not a harness bolted on top. If they're right, voice agents, AI tutors, and support bots stop feeling like walkie-talkies and start feeling like actual conversations. Research preview only for now, with wider release planned later in 2026.

HOW TO AI

🗂️ Full Claude Projects guide for beginners step by step

Claude has no idea who you are.

Every time you open a new chat, it starts fresh. No memory of your business. No memory of what you're building. No memory of the conversation you had yesterday that took 45 minutes to get right.

Projects fix this.

Not in a complicated way. You create a workspace, upload a few documents about your business, write some instructions on how you want Claude to behave,1 and from that point on, every conversation inside that project starts with all of that context already loaded.

That's really it.

The rule of thumb for when to create a project.

Simple: if you need Claude to show up differently for a specific type of work, create a project.

Asking for restaurant recommendations? No project needed. Strategizing about your business, creating content, analyzing data, managing client work, anything where you want Claude to actually know your context and produce specific, tailored results, that needs a project.

Think of each project as a dedicated room. One for business strategy. One for content creation. One for client work. One for data analysis. When you walk into each room, everything relevant is already there.

Step 1: Create the project.

In Claude, go to the Projects section. Click New Project.

Give it a name that describes the type of work, "Business Strategy," "Content Repurposing," "Client Research," whatever it is. Add a short description of what you're trying to achieve. This is just for your own organization, it doesn't affect how Claude behaves.

Create the project. You now have a dedicated workspace.

Quick tip: Star the projects you use most. They pin to the top of your sidebar. The ones you're in every day should be immediately accessible.

Step 2: The business overview file (put this in every project).

The single most valuable document you can give Claude is a business overview.

Not because it's complicated, because it's foundational. Every output Claude gives you is only as specific as the context it has about you. Generic context produces generic advice. Specific context produces advice that's actually useful.

Here's what a business overview should include:

  • Company identity: Who do you help? What do you do? One-sentence description. How long have you been in business?

  • Revenue model: What are your offers? What do you charge? What's your pricing structure?

  • Offer stack: Each offer explained in depth. What's included, what it costs, who it's for.

  • Market position: How are you different from competitors? Why do clients choose you?

  • Growth profile: How are you acquiring customers right now? What channels are working?

  • 90-day priorities: This is the most important section. What are you trying to accomplish right now? Claude is best when it can see a specific target. Give it your actual goals, not vague ambitions.

Upload this to every project. Even if the project is about content creation or data analysis, having Claude understand your business context means it can flag when advice doesn't align with your actual goals.

How to build it without writing it from scratch:

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Alongside Gemini Intelligence, Google unveiled Googlebook, an entirely new line of laptops designed from the ground up for Gemini AI.

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