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Google Docs can now talk, reading your writing aloud in natural voices. Musk’s Grok chatbot leaked 370,000 private conversations onto the open web. Microsoft added Copilot to Excel, letting plain English prompts fill cells with instant results. And NASA with IBM built an AI to forecast solar storms hours in advance.

AI is moving from labs into everyday life. It’s inside documents, data, conversations, and even space itself.

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• 🎙️ Google Docs Can Talk – New Gemini-powered audio feature reads documents aloud with natural voices and adjustable tones.

• ⚠️ Grok Chatbot Conversations Go Public – xAI leak exposed 370,000 private chats, including dangerous content, searchable on Google.

• 🔥 Microsoft Adds Copilot to Excel – New =COPILOT() formula fills cells with plain English prompts, reshaping spreadsheets.

• ☀️ NASA and IBM Watch the Sun – Surya AI forecasts solar flares and storms to protect satellites and power grids.

• 🧠 AI Tool of the Day – Flowith: Ideas Come Alive on a Canvas.

• ⚡ Quick Hits – IN AI TODAY

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• 🧠 Key Quote | Bret Taylor | OpenAI Chairman

Stay sharp. Today’s stories show how AI is transforming the tools we use and guarding the systems we depend on.

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🎙️ Google Docs Can Talk

🧠The Pulse

Now your Google Docs can talk. Using Gemini, it can read your writing aloud in natural tones that you can adjust. You can choose how it sounds, change the speed, and listen while working, commuting, or simply resting your eyes.

📌The Download

• Google has rolled out an Audio feature in Google Docs that lets users listen to their documents via the Tools > Audio > Listen to this tab option on desktop. Authors can place a play button inside the document, adjust its label, color, and size to match their style, and readers can click it to listen instantly.

• The feature offers several playback options such as Narrator, Teacher, Persuader, Coach, Explainer, and Motivator. These options were first tested in Gemini’s NotebookLM and mobile app. By bringing them into Docs, Google wants to make documents easier to proofread, more accessible for readers, and simpler to share with teams.

• The rollout began August 18 for accounts that get Google’s features first, with all other accounts set to follow from August 25. For now, the feature works only on desktop and supports English. It is available to Workspace Business Standard and Plus, Enterprise Standard and Plus, Gemini Education, Education Premium, Gemini Business, Enterprise add-ons, and AI Pro or Ultra subscribers.

💡What This Means for You

Docs are now files you can both read and hear. This makes it easier to share reports, proposals, or lessons with people who prefer listening. It also shows how AI is starting to change the way we engage with written text.

🎯 Elon Musk’s Grok Chatbot Conversations Are Now Public

🧠The Pulse

xAI accidentally exposed more than 370,000 Grok chatbot conversations to the open web. They were indexed by Google and other search engines, making everything from private chats to violent plans searchable by anyone. The leak shocked users who never expected their talks with the AI to become public.

📌The Download

• The breach came from Grok’s “share” feature, which created links that weren’t hidden from search engines. Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo crawled the pages, making hundreds of thousands of user chats searchable. Experts say this shows xAI ignored basic web privacy safeguards.

• The exposed conversations go beyond embarrassing text. They include step-by-step instructions for making fentanyl and bombs, an assassination plot against Musk, and uploaded files and images. Reporters noted this is one of the largest unintentional AI data leaks to date, far bigger than earlier ChatGPT incidents.

• xAI has not issued a statement, but pressure is building. The Irish Data Protection Commission is already investigating Grok for potential GDPR violations, and critics warn this leak could spark lawsuits and heavy EU fines. The timing is sensitive, as Grok was already criticized for producing extremist outputs, including antisemitic content.

💡What This Means for You

If you use AI chatbots for work, assume nothing is truly private. Conversations can be exposed or misused in ways you never expected. Treat AI chats like public forums: safe for brainstorming, and risky for sensitive plans. The Grok leak shows privacy mistakes can explode into global headlines overnight.

🔥 Microsoft Adds Copilot to Excel To Automatically Fill Cells

🧠The Pulse

Microsoft gave Excel a brain. A new Copilot formula, =COPILOT(), lets you type plain English prompts and watch cells fill themselves with summaries, tags, or tables. It’s a bold step that makes spreadsheets less about formulas and more about asking the right question.

📌The Download

• The new function is available for Microsoft 365 Copilot Beta users on Windows and Mac, with a web rollout planned soon. The formula works like any other in Excel, but instead of numbers, it takes plain English prompts to create instant results.

• Outputs are dynamic. Change the source data and the AI refreshes the results automatically. For example, typing =COPILOT("Sort this feedback", D4:D18) will instantly group the comments for you. The Copilot function also works with existing Excel formulas like IF, SWITCH, and LAMBDA.

• Microsoft says usage is capped at about 100 calls every 10 minutes, with a maximum of 300 per hour. The feature cannot yet pull from external web data or company databases, and it is not meant for critical number work.

💡What This Means for You

Excel now lets you work with data by asking questions in plain English. This saves time, but it also changes what matters most: not memorizing formulas, but knowing the right questions to ask.

⚡ NASA & IBM Launch AI That Watches the Sun

🧠The Pulse

NASA and IBM have unveiled Surya, an open-source AI built to watch the Sun and predict space weather. Trained on nine years of solar data, it can forecast flares and storms hours ahead. The mission is simple but urgent: protect satellites, power grids, and communications from billion-dollar disruptions.

📌The Download

• Surya is the first big foundation model for studying the Sun. NASA and IBM have made it free on Hugging Face, GitHub, and TerraTorch. It was trained on nine years of data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and can predict solar events up to two hours ahead. Tests show it is about 16% more accurate than older tools.

• The model is very large, with 366 million parameters, and was trained on 218 terabytes of high-quality solar images. With this power, it can forecast flares, predict solar wind speeds, estimate ultraviolet spectra, and even map active regions on the Sun. IBM scientists built a custom transformer system to handle such huge image sequences.

• These forecasts matter because big solar storms can damage satellites, GPS, and even power grids on Earth. Lloyd’s of London warns that one extreme storm could cause up to $2.4 trillion in losses over five years. By making Surya open-source, NASA and IBM hope scientists everywhere can build stronger defenses against space weather.

💡What This Means for You

AI is now helping us read the Sun in ways humans never could. If you’re curious about how solar storms shape life on Earth, this is a rare front-row seat. And because the model is open-source, discoveries won’t stop at NASA, the whole world can join in.

AI TOOL OF THE DAY

Flowith — Ideas Come Alive on a Canvas

💡 What It Is?

Flowith is an AI workspace built on an infinite 2D canvas. Instead of typing in a single chat box, you can place prompts, outputs, notes, and web links as movable blocks. It includes an Oracle agent that can plan, break down tasks, and execute them with AI tools, while your knowledge uploads become instantly usable.

🚀 Why Is It Trending?

Most AI tools keep you stuck in one conversation. Flowith breaks that pattern by making creativity visual and flexible. Writers, researchers, and teams are using it to brainstorm, organize, and debug complex projects. Its mix of canvas freedom, AI orchestration, and live collaboration makes it stand out.

✅ What You Can Do With It?

Map out projects visually on a canvas. Collaborate live with teammates in real time. Use Oracle mode to auto-plan and run multi-step tasks. And, build a “Knowledge Garden” by uploading documents and links for smarter AI responses.

✨ Think it. Map it. Flowith makes it real.

IN AI TODAY - QUICK HITS

⚡Quick Hits (60‑Second News Sprint)

Short, sharp updates to keep your finger on the AI pulse.

• Google Gemini-Powered Pixel Buds Are Here: At its “Made by Google” event, the company rolled out Gemini AI for Pixel Buds 2a and Pixel Buds Pro 2. The update brings smarter audio, real-time translation, improved noise control, and natural voice commands. A new Moonstone color and longer battery life make the upgrade more appealing.

• Bill Gates Puts $1M to Cure Alzheimer’s With AI: Bill Gates has started the Alzheimer’s Insights AI Prize, a $1 million contest to speed up treatment discovery. It asks for AI tools that can study Alzheimer’s data, reason through it, and suggest new drug options. Winners will be named in San Diego and Copenhagen, and their tools will be shared worldwide for free.

• The AI Battlefield Got a New King — China’s DeepSeek V3.1: China’s DeepSeek has launched V3.1, a 685-billion parameter model that takes aim at U.S. rivals. It comes with a huge 128k context window, runs in different tensor formats, and is free on Hugging Face. Enterprise pricing starts in September. The model is fast, open, and strong in coding, math, and reasoning.

• 1.8 Billion Gmail Users at Risk From AI Cyberattacks: Google has warned 1.8 billion Gmail users about a new attack called indirect prompt injection. Hackers hide secret commands in emails or files, which can trick Gemini into giving away passwords or running harmful tasks. Google is adding extra protections and asking users to stay alert.

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