AI That Actually Does Something With Your Google Workspace Claude and ChatGPT read your Google world. Gemini acts in it.

I compared ChatGPT 5, Claude 4.1 Opus, and Gemini 2.5 Pro on Gmail, Drive, and Calendar. Claude and ChatGPT excel at pulling facts and building defensible summaries. Gemini goes further by drafting replies, creating events, and adding tasks, which is where the time savings show up.

The Director in the Machine: Moving Beyond the Prompt to Take Control of AI Content Forget prompt whispering. It’s time to give your AI a script.

The era of simple prompting is over; the real competitive advantage in AI content now comes from acting as a director, not just a requester. In this article, I share the game-changing workflow of using one AI as a 'creative director' for another, giving you the control to create world-class videos.

Magnus and I. Love this dog so much!

Your Custom AI Assistant Just Moved Into Google Docs Why settle for one AI assistant when you can have a whole team of specialists?

The Gemini team crushed it, adding Gems directly into workspace apps. Massive productivity unlock. Thanks
@officiallogank.bsky.social and @joshwoodward for keeping the innovation coming - this one was awesome! I wrote about my direct experience and how I already use it here: bit.ly/4l81RjE

When AI Couldn't Run a Vending Machine: What Anthropic's Project Vend Reveals About Our Jobs The $85 Deal That Revealed the Gap Between AI Intelligence and Business Sense

www.smithstephen.com/p/when-ai-co...

When Anthropic's CEO warned that AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years, I started updating my succession planning. Then I read about his company's own AI trying to run a vending machine. The results? It gave away products for free and more.

Anthropic's Claude 4: A Game-Changer for Business, But Not Without Trade-offs Breaking: AI achieves what no human programmer ever could—working 7 hours without checking Reddit. The future is here, and it has incredible focus.

Breaking: AI achieves what no human programmer ever could—working 7 hours without checking Reddit. The future is here, and it has incredible focus. Claude 4 Opus and Sonnet have arrived!

The AI Throne: How Google Dethroned Apple in the Intelligence Race Apple Intelligence? More Like Apple Ignorance – Google Just Served Cupertino a Digital Beatdown

Apple Intelligence? More Like Apple Ignorance – Google Just Served Cupertino a Digital Beatdown

The Next Frontier: Key Insights from Eric Schmidt's Recent TED Talk on AI The Under-hyped Revolution: Why Eric Schmidt Believes We're Still Not Taking AI Seriously Enough

The Under-hyped Revolution: Why Eric Schmidt Believes We're Still Not Taking AI Seriously Enough

www.smithstephen.com/p/the-next-f...

I've been running numerous detailed prompts today comparing OpenAI o3 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro. Consistently I can say that at least based on the business use cases I'm running -- that 2.5 > o3.

ChatGPT's New Memory: How OpenAI's Latest Feature Will Transform Your Business Workflows Last week, OpenAI quietly rolled out one of its most significant updates: a dramatically enhanced Memory feature for ChatGPT. As someone who's spent years helping businesses implement AI solutions, I ...

Say goodbye to AI-induced déjà vu—repeating yourself to ChatGPT is officially a thing of the past. OpenAI's game-changing Memory update means your AI assistant now remembers your conversations better than your boss does after three cups of coffee.

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St. Bernard Saturday.

Becoming an AI-First Organization: A Leader's Guide to Meaningful Transformation Everyone's claiming to be "AI-first" while their CEO still has an assistant print their emails and schedule their Zoom calls

Everyone's claiming to be "AI-first" while their CEO still has an assistant print their emails and schedule their Zoom calls. Here's a guide to get started: smithstephenm.substack.com/p/becoming-a...

ChatGPT Projects: The Organizational Game-Changer for Legal (and other!) Professionals ChatGPT Projects is like Marie Kondo for your AI workflows—everything in its place and sparking productivity for legal professionals.

ChatGPT Projects is like Marie Kondo for your AI workflows—everything in its place and sparking productivity for legal professionals.

smithstephenm.substack.com/p/chatgpt-pr...

Sure feels like Gemini 2.5 Pro was a huge advancement. Llama 4 feels optimized for benchmarks. We will see.

Protecting Your Privacy: How to Prevent LLMs from Training on Your Data Think your AI chats are private? Discover how to prevent the innocent question about your medical condition from becoming training data for tomorrow's AI overlords.

A quick updated primer on making sure LLMs aren't training on your data.

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The book was called "World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy" by Catherine Bracy. At the signing there was a great panel discussion with Catherine, Felicia Wong, and Janet Haven. A lot of great discussion not just on the book, but on the end of neoliberalism and what's next.

I’m in. I was a great book launch in NY last night and the discussion was around the future that we should be focusing on and how we get there.

I learned it had two s’s because it was super sweet. Funny how we all learn things.

He’s just waiting for me to come home.

There’s no leader. No voice. No message. No vision. What should the future look like that we can rally around?

In NY today and I really miss this little guy!

Microsoft is shutting down Skype after a 21-year run. Here's how it lost out to video call rivals Skype is among the world's most long-lasting digital brands. But other mobile apps took off faster, and Skype didn't see the Covid bump that Zoom did.

I’ve used Skype for about 20 years.

Microsoft is shutting down Skype. Here's how it lost out to video chat rivals www.cnbc.com/2025/02/28/m...

Puppy Love.

First Rivian trip to the snow at Mammoth and it was amazing. Used Rivian Adventure Chargers up and back. Perfect vehicle, perfect trip.

The Research Revolution: How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Knowledge Work The Algorithm as Apprentice: When Your Research Assistant is an AI

Stop wasting time sifting through endless search results. AI is stepping in as a true research partner. I break down the new Deep Research tools and show a real-world case study of how Google's Deep research and Open AI's deep research performed on the same task. #OpenAI #Gemini #DeepResearch

Gemini 2.0 Pro exp 02-05 is the best-performing non-reasoning model (compared to Claude 3.5 sonnet and the latest ChatGPT model). Fantastic work by the Google team.

Ok. What do you recommend instead?