Google is giving Workspace users a way to access “Gems” — customizable versions of its Gemini AI assistant that specialize in specific tasks — without opening the Gemini app. Gems are now available directly in the side panel of Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, Drive, and Gmail, allowing users to access custom chatbots they’ve created or […]

Business Insider:
Leaked documents: Meta is training custom AI chatbots to message users unprompted, following up on past chats to boost engagement on its AI Studio platform  —  - Meta is training custom AI chatbots to send unprompted follow-up messages and boost user engagement.

Gina Kolata / New York Times:
An analysis of 15M+ biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 finds researchers using AI to write abstracts use certain words far more often than those who don't  —  Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.

Kirk Ogunrinde / Bloomberg:
Bitcoin's implied volatility declined to the lowest level in two years, showing decreased price swings and trading between $93K to $111K in the past two months  —  With Bitcoin stuck in a narrow trading range for much of the year, one of key attractions of the largest digital currency since its earliest days is waning.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Similarweb: since the launch of Google's AI Overviews, the number of news searches that result in no click-throughs grew from 56% in May 2024 to 69% in May 2025  —  Referrals from ChatGPT to news publishers are growing, but not enough to counter the decline in clicks resulting …