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So much of the value that many of us get from AI isn't always the huge model releases. Usually it's the smaller updates under the hood changes and feature updates that normally don't get much attention. The big new AI model updates probably do get your attention, but you don't have hours each day to sift through these smaller yet very impactful AI drops. I do. And that's what this new series is about for now. We're calling it Friday features a weekly roundup of the smaller AI updates that will make a big difference in your work. A A practical and actionable weekly guide to point you in the direction of what's new and how you can start benefiting now. So here's our problem, at least at Everyday AI and trying to keep you up to date. We do our big AI News that Matters recap on Mondays, going over the top news stories and then our hands on show called AI at Work on Wednesdays where we dive deep into one new release. But between those two weekly segments, I realized that our audience was kind of left out in the dark on the majority of AI feature updates that were actually useful. Hence this new show. So let me know if you like it, but here's what we're going to cover on today's show. How you're going to learn. If you stick around for the next 20 to 25 minutes, it's going to be a faster one. How Google just made the biggest update to docs, sheets, slides and drive that they've had in years. How perplexity is trying to redefine what a personal computer even means in 2026. How open AI quietly gave teams a way to stop repeating themselves in every single chat GPT conversation and why three different companies just shipped AI directly inside spreadsheets this week and what that signals all right, you ready to get into it? I am. Let's go. Welcome to Everyday AI. My name is Jordan Wilson and well, if you're new here, it's things for you unedited, unscripted, daily livestream, podcast and free daily newsletter helping you make sense of the AI chaos. We tell you what's important, what's not and help you put it to work. So if that's exactly what you're trying to do, welcome. It starts here, but make sure you go to our website at your Everyday AI dot com. Sign up for the free Daily newsletter. We're going to be recapping all the highlights from today's show and a whole lot more. So let's get straight into it. This week we're going to be going over seven new AI features to save you time from Excel to Google Workspace and AI agents. Yeah, there's always AI Agents, so let's just go ahead and look live. So for most of these podcast audience, you don't really need to see what's going on the screen. Although I'm going to be sharing my screen mainly going over some of these, you know, AI updates for, from big companies, going over the releases and kind of my big takeaways for you. So let's start with, let's see if we can get it going there. All right, Google. All right, big one. This is something I've personally wanted from Google and Google Gemini for years and they finally shipped it. Yet I don't know if I saw literally anyone talk about it and I think it's huge. So here's what's new. This is the new Gemini in Docs, sheets, slides and Drive. So maybe you've seen this pop up, you know, in your Google workspace, maybe not. So there is a new help me create mode across the entire workspace so you can describe what you need. Then Gemini can pull in that information from Gmail Drive and chat to build it inside of the app. So in Docs it can help you make drafts in sheets, it can obviously build full spreadsheets and auto fill cells in slides, it can help you generate themed slides. And then Drive I think is really cool. So Drive just kind of is. Now they're kind of almost repositioning it to a mini rag. Right? This is your entire knowledge base and you can access it from anywhere. So I do think that both Microsoft and Google Google struggled initially trying to get their respective co pilot and Gemini to really work seamlessly in their office or workspace apps. And you know, I even had a lot of videos maybe back in, you know, late 2023, early 2024, showing how this implementation on the Google side just didn't work right. It seemed like the, you know, even though that they were offering Gemini in beta in some instances, you know, in Gmail in Google Docs, it just didn't work. Now in my testing so far in this, it's really, really good and it's finally, I do love how they're repositioning Drive too. It's almost like I said, it is like retrieval, augmented generation. It's a vector database of Your company's living knowledge that you can now properly access from anywhere. Right? It's like before you almost had to have a decision tree of where you could use certain Google Gemini features. It's like in Drive you could chat with certain files in Gmail, you know, maybe you could access, you know, drive, but not sheets. Now it just seemingly is working all better together. All right, here's who has access and some use cases. So right now it is in beta for paid subscribers. So if you are a paid subscriber for for Gmail, well you have it whether you're an AI Ultra or AI Pro subscriber. And the good news is it is rolling out to Gemini for workspace business customers at the same time as long as you are opted in to the alpha program, which your admin just has to do with one click. So right now it is available globally, although English only for docs, sheets and slides. And some of the drive features are us only at launch. Well, okay, you might be thinking, why do I need this? You know, can't I just go inside of Google Gemini and do most of these things? Well, yeah, sure, but here's the reality. If you're anything like me, I still spend plenty of time, right? My company, we're a workspace company. So I still spend plenty of time in sheets, in docs, in slides. And a lot of times I'm like, wait, can I access this from the Gemini sidebar here? And a lot of times the answer has been either no or kind of or not sure. Now it's just becoming much more useful. So this is just AI that works inside of the apps instead of having to launch a separate chatbot and going into Gemini. So that cuts down on context switching, which is huge. And then the fill in, sorry, fill with Gemini in sheets can pull live data from Google search into your cells. I actually did demo that this past summer. I think it was with Paige Bailey from Google, which is one of the, I think more underutilized features in all of AI, right? To be able to pull in live Google data straight inside Google Sheets is pretty huge. It also has a new feature to match your writing style, which is really helpful, that unifies your tone across multi author docs automatically. So I think this is extremely valuable for really any teams that have the majority of their day to day inside of Google Workspace. So whether that's, you know, project managers, marketers, analysts, founders, it doesn't matter. If you are working in Google Workspace, this is great. So the only downside, like I said, is it does require a paid Google AI subscription. But the upside, finally, right, I've been always harping on Google when they come out with all these new features and it seems like they're made for business, but then they don't go to workspace users. It's like, oh, it only goes to your personal gmail, right? Your Gmail.com if you have a paid plan. And I'm like, okay, well that, you know, negates the majority of people using this, which are business users. So that's great that this rolled out right away. All right, our next one, Perplexity is trying to 30 years later, redefine what the personal computer means. All right, this one's a little confusing, but I'll simplify it. They just came out with something they're calling Personal Computer, which, which is their version of what they're calling a more secure, easier to use open claw. All right, so what the heck is personal computer, right? I'll read it from their website here. So they said today we are announcing Personal computer Personal computer runs on a dedicated Mac mini that can run 247 connected to your local apps and Perplexity's secure servers. Personal Computer is a digital proxy for you, working constantly on your behalf and allowing you to orchestrate all your tools, tasks and files. Files from any device anywhere. Personal Computer works in a secure environment with clear safeguards. Sensitive actions require approval and every session includes a full audit trail. A kill switch gives users immediate control. All right, so right now this is obviously a paid product and it's rolling out on a wait list only. And I'm actually not sure. I'm double checking here live. Yeah, I'm not sure why or if it's going to remain Mac Mini only. Right? Like, luckily for me, I have a Mac Mini that I set up for OpenClaw that I'm not using for anyone else. But I also have a Mac Studio. So it's like, okay, can you only run it on Mac Mini? Maybe, maybe some of those details will come out later. This new update is like less than, you know, a day and a half old. So like I said, this is a cloud based, multi agent system that can orchestrate those 19 +AI models that computer already works on. So I did a full hands on demo of Perplexity Computer about two weeks ago during our Wednesday show. And the cool thing is just with a prompt, Perplexity Computer can run, you know, 19 different AI models and it kind of chooses which one is best for the task. And a lot of times, even in one task it might use 2, 3, 4, 5 different AI models. So all this is is it's taking that cloud based computer agent and it's letting it run on a local machine. So this is essentially a layer that runs on a dedicated Mac that stays on 24, 7 merging your local files with cloud agents. So yeah, it can access your local device. So that's the big difference here. And it is controllable from any device but like I said, all sensitive actions do require user confirmation. So it is rolling out right now unfortunately to Perplexity Max subscribers and it is credit based. We'll see. I did join the the wait list so I might also reach to some of my contacts there at Perplexity, see if I can jump the line just so you all can get a look at it. One thing I did not like about Perplexity Computer which the team told me they are working on is I'm like yo, like a simple prompt, right? Ate up a tenth of the normal monthly credits, right. So we'll see if it gets a little better at that and how that might be a little different once you can maybe use local models. Right. But right now unfortunately it's Mac only and it is a wait list. But they did also announce an enterprise version that will have direct integrations with Slack, Snowflake and also SSO single sign on. So here's why it's useful. Well it's just a easier and what Perplexity is calling more secure version of openclaw. So as you've probably heard me talk about on the show before, openclaw one of the most viral pieces of open source software ever. Well I think it is literally the most viral, at least according to GitHub stars. Right? Even Nvidia CEO Jensen Wong mentioned as much that he said it's maybe the most important piece of software ever. So essentially OpenAI kind of aqua hired the project by hiring its sole founder. So we'll see what OpenAI's long term plans are with the Open Claw project. It's obviously open source still available for anyone to use for free. The problem is is it does take a lot of tech know how to get set up. From a security standpoint you do have to really keep an eye on it. So I think the differentiator on if personal computer will pick up speed is ultimately going to be well okay, number one, how much easier is it to set up personal computer than OpenClaw? And number two is can perplexity tell us exactly what makes it more secure aside from just saying hey it's in a secure sandbox. But why is this useful? Well, like I said, you can, with a single prompt, you can kick off a multi hour research project, but also have it work on your local machine and it can pick the best model for each subtask automatically. That's one thing I liked when demoing the actual Perplexity computer. But now, yeah, it's a personal computer. Confusing, right? All right, next one. We actually have two from Microsoft. And number one is kind of similar to what I just talked about. Right. So in the last couple of weeks, I wouldn't say it's been a craze, but it's been a movement toward, well, this type of work, you know, combining autonomous AI agents that can work on your local machine and still use powerful models. And that's exactly what we got from Microsoft with Copilot Cowork. All right, so here is the, the quick rundown of how they say it. They say if you have used Copilot, you have seen how quickly it can help you find an answer or draft an email. The next step is just as important, turning that intent into real actions. Across Microsoft 365 over the last year, we have been pushing Copilot toward taking action. That means completing tasks, running workflows, and doing work on your behalf. Copilot Cowork is built for that. It helps Copilot take action. Not just chat. Cowork makes it easy to delegate work, describe the outcome you want. And Cowork automatically grounds that work in your emails, meetings, messages, files and data. All right, so if this sounds kind of like Anthropic's cowork, well, that's because it is, it is their technology. Microsoft is obviously an investor in Anthropic and they do use the CLAUDE models across the ecosystem. But this is essentially Microsoft's version of Anthropic's copilot technology, or cowork technology. So it is the cowork technology. So you know, if you missed, what the heck is Cowork from Anthropic? Well, essentially they released CLAUDE code, crazy popular, multiple billion dollars of revenue in the first couple of months. And they found Anthropic did that people were using it for non technical tasks. So then they created a non technical version of CLAUDE code called CLAUDE Cowork. And it can essentially describe what you want to do. You can connect all your data to it. And like Open Claw and now Perplexity's personal computer. Right. It does this combination of using, you know, this hybrid approach, using very powerful, you know, frontier models in the cloud, but then working with your local desktop. So that's exactly what Copilot is here with Copilot Cowork. So this is built with anthropic and it is powered by the Claude models. So right now access, this is going to be a slow one. I would assume it is the Frontier program and early enterprise co pilot users only right now, although Microsoft teased a broader rollout in late March, we'll see if that happens, at least in my experience of covering AI every day for more than three years. These more complicated and in theory rollouts that require more security hands on usually take longer because I was surprised when they said broader rollout in late March. I wouldn't personally expect it. I would say probably quarter two or quarter three, but we'll see. We'll obviously be keeping you in the update on that. So here's why it's useful. Well, it just plans and it runs in the background with checkpoints and you approve it before anything changes. And it can deliver finished artifacts, you know, decks, reports, et cetera, but all based on and grounded in your Microsoft data. So this is going to be, I think extremely valuable for your everyday enterprise knowledge workers. Right. Executives, analysts, operations lead and anyone really juggling Outlook teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint Daily. But you are constantly having to pull in different information from all of these files and then output some sort of artifact or deliverable. Right. And if that definition sounded like, well, Jordan, that's everyone. Well yeah, that's pretty much everyone. So we'll see. This, I think is ultimately what I think most people had in mind when Microsoft released Copilot, you know, two and a half years ago. So we'll see if this helps with Copilot adoption. Right, because I think Copilot has been one of those things that's trickier to use. We also just saw Microsoft release and announce tasks. I think that might be more for Copilot on the web. So we'll see how these things ultimately come together. But hey, live stream audience, podcast audience, let me know if you want to see in the future. Right. If we get access to co pilot co work or something. If you want to see more coverage on it, let me know and we'll can make that happen. All right. The next new release, this one also from Microsoft. So new agentic capabilities live inside Excel, Word and PowerPoint. So this was, well, it was announced alongside the Copilot cowork announcement. This was part of Microsoft's Wave 3 copilot rollout. So we'll be going over that a little More on our Monday AI News that Matters segment because there was a lot announced but I would say probably the two most important things. Well we just covered. So one was Copilot cowork and then two is this new the new agentic capabilities inside of Microsoft Word and Excel. So this is essentially an in app agent mode that handles multi step actions inside word, Excel and PowerPoint. So as an example, in Excel you know, that can help you with natural language, do scenario modeling, formulas, charts, analysis, et cetera and then in Word help you draft and refine with clarifying questions on tone audience. Right. So this was rolled out in preview previously. So this is part of a wider rollout from Microsoft. So who has access right now? So that's important. So this is first Enterprise Copilot users and then second, the general availability is set to go on May 1st. So that's if you're using Microsoft Agent 365. So here's why it's useful, right? This is just cuts down on the iterative back and forth, you know, going between, you know, different, different sections inside Microsoft Copilot just hopefully helps you produce better outputs without having to do so much context switching. Right. And jumping to a new chat window instead. Right. The AI just works where you work, right? Like in the sidebar of Excel. And not just that, but powered by reasoning models that can, you know, they're not just spitting out next token prediction, right? They're thinking and they're grounding that in your data. So the Copilot notebook grounding anchors those agents on shared references so teams will hopefully get more consistent results. So this is great, especially if you're an analyst working inside, you know, Excel or Word Daily or just team leads who need consistent copilot output across people. So yeah, unfortunately if you want access now, it does require the Enterprise Copilot plan. And it's less flashy than Cowork, but maybe arguably a little more important for day to day work until, well, people learn how to use things like cowork.
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All right, our next one kind of related. Yeah, it's very much related. The exact same thing. So we did reference this on our GPT5.4 release show. So yeah, last week we did. I didn't even know what this weekly show was going to be called, so we did it on Thursday and then like an hour later we got GPT54 from OpenAI. So this one is a little bit older, right? Eight days. Oh my gosh, that's like two decades in AI time. But chat GBT in Excel, again, huge. I think a huge release that no one's really talking about. So essentially this is an add in for Excel. So you're not finding this inside of chat GPT, it's an add in in Excel and then you can log in with your chat GPT account and it essentially brings in GPT54 as a sidebar add in inside of Excel so you can, you know, build financial models, run scenarios, trace formulas and analyze data in plain English. The other cool thing is it brings in live dynamic financial and data. So it has integrations with FactSet, Moody's, MSCI, S P Global, Dow Jones, Factibia, Third Bridge, right? All the big data providers. It is going to work dynamically inside without you having to do anything else. So right now this does require a paid Chat GPT account. So yeah, plus Pro Team, Business, Enterprise, Edu and teachers and originally or sorry, initially only rolling out to the US, Canada in and Australia. The cool thing. OpenAI did say that a Google Sheets version of this is coming soon, which is really cool. All right, so here's why I think it's useful and who's going to find it valuable? Again, eliminates context switching. You're right. So getting the best of GPT54, which I think right now is the best all around model for general intelligence and it just eliminates the copy and paste out of Excel into Chat GBT loop, right? Everything stays in the workbook. So it obviously will ask permission before making any major changes and it links those answers to the exact cell. So you can kind of have a little bit of transparency and traceability. So the financial data integrations, also huge, lets you pull in market data without ever leaving Excel. So whether you're a, an accountant, an analyst, if you work in finance, anyone that's doing any business intelligence, I think you're going to find huge value from this. It isn't beta right now, only three countries at launch. And if you are on like an enterprise plan as an example, admins must enable this. So, you know, keep that in mind. If you want to use this and you're not admin, you might have to go track them down for that information. All right, two more here, let's get into them. And here's a big one again, I don't even think there was an actual announcement of this. I didn't. At least not from the main Open AI account. Right? No blog posts, nothing. This was just a small footnote in OpenAI's help article. All right, but skills are now rolled out to ChatGPT. And if you've been someone that's been splitting your time between anthropics, Claude and OpenAI's chat GPT and you've really found value in anthropic skills, well, now most paid ChatGPT users can have access to it. And I say most well, because it's not the bottom paid plan, unfortunately. So who can use this? Right now it is those on the Business, Enterprise Edu, teachers and health code or, sorry, healthcare plans, as well as Codex and the API. So, yeah, essentially skills are on every single paid plan except the base $20 plan, which kind of stinks. Oh, and I'm looking also the Pro plan, it's not there, the $200 plan, so it's not on the $20 a month or the $200 a month plan, but it's essentially on all the paid team plans. So at least for me, I've been experimenting with skills, but it's kind of, it's kind of annoying because I have to, you know, log out of my Pro and MY plus accounts and go log into my business accounts. But if you don't know skills, let me tell you a little bit. Well, what they are and why this is helpful. Essentially, skills are reusable workflows that now you can use inside of ChatGPT and they apply automatically when they are relevant. So you can kind of define when to use a workflow, the steps and the output formula and Then you can share that across your workspace. So every account includes a skill creator skill, so you can even build new ones inside of ChatGPT in a normal conversation without any manual work. Right. So essentially, to simplify it, you know, because I think there's a lot of confusion, like, okay, what's the difference between skills and a GPT and you know, custom instructions in a project and, you know, custom, you know, system settings on how you want your chatgpt to behave. Right. There's a lot of intricacies and nuances between these. Right. But essentially, skills think of it like a. It's like a bunch of folders that have directions in them, right? And markdown files and they are used automatically. Whereas if you're, you know, using a GPT or something like that, you have to mention or go actively use that GPT. So we'll see how skills are picked up inside ChatGPT. And if they do, roll out to those other individual paid plans, which is, I think, where the majority of the paid users actually are. So here's why it's useful. Well, it solves that having to repeat the same instructions every single conversation. Right. Especially for teams. And it standardizes some of those recurring workflows. Right. So whether you're trying to pull weekly reports, you know, checks out of your CRM that you have connected inside of Chat GPT, inside apps, formatting guidelines. Right, all those things, it just makes it much easier. So, yeah, unfortunately, there's also no cross product sync yet between Chat GPT and Codex. So your Codex skills aren't going to be accessible via Chat GPT and vice versa. And you know what, this is again, I think OpenAI chipping away. Right? And I've said this before, I'm like, I don't know if Anthropic chose the right fight to pick with OpenAI. Right? The whole super bowl commercial fiasco. And you know, there's been some other small things along the way. We saw Anthropic release these, you know, kind of code updates that they were charging like 15 to 25 for. And then OpenAI came out very quickly with a little quick marketing campaign and they're like, hey, this is zero dollars for us, right? So it looks like one of these things that OpenAI is finding things that people have liked or do currently like or prefer in Anthropic, and they're just starting to implement things from Claude code into Chat GPT. I think in the end it's us users that win. So let me know, live stream audience, if you want to know more and podcast audience if you want to know more on ChatGPT skills in the future. All right, last but not least, more kind of pseudo open Claw esque competitions, right? So this one here, Anthropic has released finally flawed code scheduled tasks and there is a new loop command which is really cool. So that, that's only in the command line interface, so not in the desktop version. But that brings along kind of Cron style scheduling. So you can run prompts at intervals, you know, every certain minutes, every couple of hours, every couple of days, or you can just schedule them normally. So in Claude desktop mode, there is the new command backs backslash schedule that you can fire tasks hourly, daily or weekly with full MCP MCP tool and plugin access. So right now this is for up to 50 concurrent tasks per session and they auto expire after three days. So who has access? Right now this is quad code users on Pro Team and Max. And then also if you're using the command line interface version of Claude code or the desktop Mac version, you know, it can apply in there as well. So here's why it's useful. Well, number one, I think this is one of the reasons why a lot of people were flocking to openclaw, right? The ability to kind of have it work around the clock for you and schedule it to do certain things is one of the reasons why, among others, right, that openclaw really took off in popularity. Right? Because otherwise, if it's just always the human having to go in there and, you know, always be the one that pushes the button or fires the automation trigger, it's not technically as helpful as a truly autonomous agent or an agent that can run on a schedule. So although, you know, Anthropic's not going to say it, I do think that a lot of their recent smaller feature updates like this have been aimed at maybe not getting some of that Open Claw audience back. Because I don't think the open Claw audience is necessarily, you know, abandoned Claude or Chat GPT. But I do think, right, we just saw this from Perplexity as well with their personal computer and then some of the more recent updates here from Anthropic that are really just bringing that utility that seemingly a lot of people desire, right, not having to go in and, you know, schedule code updates or, or not having to go in and manually do that, right? Like why not just be able to, you know, run it every single day or once a week, etc. So this is useful because it turns Claude code into a background worker that essentially just runs while you're away. So, yeah, you do have to have your computer open. Right. So using it on the desktop, it can't run if your desktop is shut. Right. But there are ways you can essentially make sure that it will run at all times. Right. To keep your Mac from going to sleep, essentially. So there's already tons of, I think, popular use cases that are in the wild. Right. So overnight PR monitoring, if you're, you know, into software development, coding, auto bug fixing, PRs, morning Slack, summaries, weekly dependency audits. Right. Whatever those things that are, that you have to do continually. Right. Whether it's, you know, every day, doing the same type of manual tasks every week, whatever it may be, I think this is good. And developers and engineers are going to love this. Right. So if you're wanting to kind of have a set and forget automation or also, you know, non coders are just calling it like accessible cron. Right. So, you know, old school cron jobs, you know, way before AI, which is just scheduling, repeatable, you know, computer automation tasks. That's what we have here. Right. So you don't even have to use it for coding things. Right. I am using schedules on cloud code for non technical, non coding use cases. So keep that in mind. This isn't just for software developers, although I do think this is where it's going to take off. So that is a wrap. Yeah. Actually, one more thing to note. I did say this, but just to iterate. Yeah. Your computer and the desktop app must be open and awake for those local tasks to fire. All right, so, yeah, it's not just your computer has to be on, but you got to make sure that, you know, if you're using Claude code on the Claude desktop app, it's got to be open, your computer's got to be awake, and then that's it. All right, what do you think, y'? All Was this helpful? All right, I'm gonna do what I did last time. I don't know if this is gonna be an every single week thing. I'm, I'm wondering if you guys like it. So I do always have an arbitrary number, right? So let me know hot or not. All right, so if, if you all really like this show, doing it every Friday, just, you know, if you're listening on the live stream, just go ahead and put hot. If you're listening on Spotify, you can leave a comment on today's show, just say hot. If you hate it, you're like, this was a waste of 32 minutes. Jordan, thanks a lot. Just say not all right. I only want to do this every single week if you're finding value. But like I said, I think even with our Monday AI news, I think when there used to be less like huge things going on, it was a little easier to cover these things, right? But essentially now at the end of every Monday show we have this what's new and what's next? And that's where a lot of these features end up. And all it is is one single bullet point. And I realized that's not helpful to anyone. And then I found myself struggling on Wednesdays, right? When we do our AI work on Wednesdays, the more hands on practical demos. Because I'm like, my gosh, there's like a dozen things that are amazing. How am I going to choose, right? So maybe this Friday show will kind of fit that in between, right? Where I can still tell you, here's all of these things and spend a couple of minutes on each explaining them, right? 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Episode Title: 7 New AI Features To Save You Time: From Excel to Google Workspace and AI Agents
Host: Jordan Wilson
Date: March 13, 2026
In this new “Friday Features” series, Jordan Wilson surveys seven recent but under-the-radar AI feature updates across key productivity tools and AI agent platforms. With a fast-paced, hands-on tone, he explains how these smaller updates—often overlooked amid splashier model launches—can make a substantial impact for everyday users’ efficiency. Features covered span Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Excel, Perplexity, OpenAI, and Anthropic’s Claude.
“So much of the value... isn’t always the huge model releases. Usually it’s the smaller updates under the hood... that normally don’t get much attention.”
— Jordan Wilson [00:16]
[02:25 – 08:45]
What’s New:
Why It Matters:
Notable Quote:
“This is just AI that works inside of the apps instead of having to launch a separate chatbot... that cuts down on context switching, which is huge.”
— Jordan Wilson [07:51]
[08:46 – 13:51]
What’s New:
How It Works:
Why It Matters:
Notable Quote:
“With a single prompt, you can kick off a multi-hour research project, but also have it work on your local machine and it can pick the best model for each subtask automatically.”
— Jordan Wilson [12:48]
[13:52 – 17:52]
What’s New:
Key Features:
Access:
Why It Matters:
Notable Quote:
“I think this is ultimately what most people had in mind when Microsoft released Copilot... This is going to be extremely valuable for enterprise knowledge workers.”
— Jordan Wilson [17:24]
[17:53 – 19:13]
What’s New:
Who Gets It:
Why It Matters:
[21:48 – 24:20]
What’s New:
Access:
Why It Matters:
Notable Quote:
“Eliminates the copy and paste out of Excel into ChatGPT loop, right? Everything stays in the workbook.”
— Jordan Wilson [23:46]
[24:21 – 27:34]
What’s New:
Who Gets It:
Why It Matters:
[27:35 – 33:52]
What’s New:
Why It Matters:
Notable Quote:
“This turns Claude code into a background worker that essentially just runs while you’re away... set and forget automation or, as non-coders call it, ‘accessible cron.’”
— Jordan Wilson [32:47]
On AI Feature Fatigue:
“AI moves too fast to follow, but you’re expected to keep up. But you don’t have ten hours a day to understand it all. That’s what I do for you.”
— Jordan Wilson [20:36]
On “Hot or Not?” Segment:
“If you all really like this show, doing it every Friday, just…put hot. If you hate it, say not… I only want to do this every week if you’re finding value.”
— Jordan Wilson [34:19]
Jordan delivers information in an energetic, approachable, and hands-on manner, emphasizing actionable tips and demystifying technical updates for a professional but non-specialist audience.
This episode offers a fast-moving but comprehensive sweep of the small-but-mighty AI features landing in mainstream productivity tools and agent platforms, showing that the real leap forward in workflow automation might happen in the background—between the major headlines.