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Google added the ability to link third-party apps — starting with Instacart, Canva, and YouTube — directly inside AI Mode, its conversational search experience, so a search session can hand off to placing an order or starting a design without leaving the chat. It's a small but telling move toward search-as-agent rather than search-as-links. Expect the list of connected apps to grow quickly if usage holds up.
OpenAI released a $230 light-up keyboard, co-designed with specialty keyboard maker Work Louder, built specifically to pair with its Codex coding assistant. The launch lands awkwardly alongside Apple's new trade secrets suit over OpenAI's broader hardware ambitions. Niche hardware for a coding agent is an unusual bet, but it fits OpenAI's pattern this year of pushing further into physical products.
Waze rolled out AI-powered updates including routes personalized to a driver's trip history and a city's traffic patterns, a new motorcycle mode that flags two-wheeler-specific hazards and shortcuts, and conversational map edits — you can now just say "the road is closed here" instead of filling out a report. Some features run on Google's Gemini, reflecting how deeply Gemini is now embedded across Google's product lineup. It's a good example of AI showing up as a quiet feature upgrade rather than a flashy standalone launch.
Anthropic launched "Reflect," a dashboard inside Claude that lets users track and visualize their usage habits, alongside tools to set quiet hours or schedule reminders to step away. The framing is wellness-oriented, but the feature also doubles as a way to surface more use cases back to the user and encourage habitual use. It's a small but telling example of AI companies borrowing directly from social media's engagement playbook.