I've been writing about AI and automation for Zapier for the last two years. In that time, I've seen Zapier ship one useful AI tool after another: some for automating securely with AI, and others for bringing secure automation into your AI tool of choice. Keeping up with these releases has been part of my job, but it doesn't have to be yours. Whether you're new to Zapier or a longtime automator…
Summary published by The Zapier Blog · 3 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Adobe's new plugin works both in Work and Codex, and is available today in ChatGPT.
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I've tested the top AI voice tools to find which delivers the best accuracy, privacy, and corrections.
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Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits - and eventually the rest of site. The company is introducing automated moderation tools that rely on LLMs to help mods manage their communities, and it's expanding who can use those tools today ahead of a full launch later this year. The company calls the suite
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AI now appears in 9.4 percent of British job postings, up from about 2 percent in 2023, according to Indeed. Overall hiring is falling in knowledge work fields such as marketing and management, but AI-related listings are rising fast. Indeed calls it a "two-speed labor market."
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CopilotKit has published the Channels SDK, an MIT licensed library that runs an existing AG-UI agent inside Slack and Microsoft Teams. Version 0.5.0 ships five platform adapters and a documented runtime contract. This breakdown covers the verified deployment paths, the baseline requirements, and the one dependency that is easy to miss
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As advanced as AI agents have become, they still fall short in one respect: connecting to your apps reliably. That's because every app authenticates, structures its endpoints, shapes its data, and breaks in its own way. An agent has to learn all those rules before it can wire up to an app. And it usually gets a lot of little details wrong along the way. That's where Zapier Connectors can help.…
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Explore new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex that help K–12 teachers, college educators, and students learn, teach, research, and build.
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Productivity starts with your calendar—but sometimes it ends there too. No one wants to reprioritize an entire week after an emergency, or play calendar Tetris to land a meeting with that busy lead sometime in the next two days. This is where an AI scheduling assistant can help: instead of working on your schedule, you can let AI calendar apps do it for you. I've been playing around with all…
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AI image generators have been brewing (generating?) up a storm for the last few years. If you've been on social media, watched prime time news shows, or read a magazine, AI-generated images have been impossible to miss. These kinds of AI-generated images are everywhere, and sometimes you won't even realize. If you want to join in the fun, or add some AI-powered features to your business…
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Plenty of tools can store data. But you probably don't need just a holding tank—you need your data to go somewhere and do something. And with most databases, moving data into other apps requires you to lean on integrations that may or may not work reliably. Zapier Tables was designed specifically for AI-powered automation. That means you can use it to build data tables and trigger workflows…
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Whenever there's a shiny new AI tool, it makes sense to dive in and see if it's worth introducing into your work. You start with a single tab in your browser, which somehow turns into a dozen, all filled with chatbots, automation workflows, and a master plan for synchronizing your systems. But at some point, off-the-shelf tools stop being enough. You want to build something of your own. AI…
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I use and write about AI for a living, but even I tend to roll my eyes whenever I see an ad for AI in the wild. They're usually generic and surface-level ("AI can write emails for you!" "A chatbot can summarize books so you don't have to use your human brain to process them!") and don't reflect how AI is best used. To have an impact, AI needs to be integrated with your workflows. With AI…
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When people talk about AI, they often toss wildly different tools into the same bucket—like putting a blender and an AI personal assistant app in the same category just because they both have buttons. That lumping obscures something important: generative AI creates things (ideas, drafts, images, emails), while agentic AI carries out things (sending those emails, following up on them, updating…
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When I replayed Fallout 4 recently, I reacquainted myself with one of the background characters—a noodle chef robot. All he can do is say "What will you have?" in Japanese and give you noodles when you say "yes." It reminded me of early-days chatbots, which I miss on a personal level but decidedly not on a business level. Today's chatbots aren't like my pal Takahashi. While they can't make…
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