Welcome to Lead with AI's practical Tuesday edition!
In this edition, I'm bringing you the latest must-know AI tools and stories:
- ChatGPT can connect to your Drive and email.
- Your AI Team: Latest updates from NotebookLM’s public sharing, Mistral Code, and Gemini’s scheduled actions.
- In 5 Steps: Write a Custom Report From Your Data Using ChatGPT Connectors.
- New tools: Thiings, Huxe, and UISnapper.
- Must-read News: Anthropic’s CEO on AI regulations.
🗓️ Happening this Thursday, June 12: Join our next Masterclass with Mike Taylor, Founder & CEO of AskRally.com to learn how to set up and use CustomGPTs for powerful and effective customer research. Inquire HERE.
Let’s dive in!
ChatGPT Introduces Connectors for Your Workspace
AI is moving deeper into how organizations manage knowledge and meetings.
This week, OpenAI introduced new ChatGPT capabilities designed for enterprises: automated meeting note capture and deep integration with business apps like Google Drive, Box, and Notion, helping leaders and teams work faster, with fewer gaps and missed insights.
Meeting Note Recording and Transcription
- Recording audio during live conversations.
- Auto-transcribe and capture notes: Summarizes conversations with time-stamped citations.
- Suggest next actions: AI analyzes the conversation and proposes actionable follow-ups.
- Query meeting notes like a database: Search across past meetings to quickly retrieve decisions or discussed points.
- Turn action items into projects: Push tasks into Canvas (OpenAI’s AI-first workspace for documents and coding).
- Access control: Follows your company’s internal access rules to ensure private data stays secure.
ChatGPT now connects directly to your core work tools:
- Secure connections: Link Google Drive, SharePoint, Box, OneDrive, Notion, Confluence, and more, without complicated IT setup.
- Smart search: Ask ChatGPT to search documents and pull answers from within your connected apps.
- Run deep research: ChatGPT can now research across multiple internal sources, add citations, and generate detailed reports.
- Sync and index: Pre-load important documents to improve speed and accuracy in ChatGPT’s answers.
Here are some examples of how leading teams are already putting these new capabilities to work:
- “Summarize everything we shipped in the last two sprints across PR descriptions, design docs, and spec files from our Google Drive and Confluence.”
- “Compare our feature adoption numbers with industry benchmarks mentioned in internal analyst reports and external sources.”
- “Find the root cause of the outage referenced in yesterday’s post-mortem and list all follow-up actions, citing internal documentation.”
Thought to leave you with: If finding the right document or decision took seconds instead of hours, what would that free your team to focus on?
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“Your AI Team” Platform Updates
Essential updates from our core AI platforms can mean big changes in your and your team's productivity. Here's what's new from the essential AI tools that most Lead with AI leaders are using:
Your AI Team: NotebookLM’s public sharing, Mistral Code, and Gemini’s scheduled actions.
Every week, I report on the top updates to your favorite AI tools. This week:
Google’s NotebookLM Now Lets You Share Your Notebooks Publicly
Google has introduced a new way for users to share their NotebookLM projects, now with public links, making it easier to distribute curated knowledge collections.
Key Features:
- Public Link Sharing: Users can generate a shareable link to their notebook, making it accessible to anyone with the link — ideal for sharing project overviews, product manuals, study guides, and more.
- Interactive Access: Viewers can’t edit the notebook’s source material but can interact by asking questions or exploring generated outputs like audio overviews, FAQs, and briefing documents.
- Simple Sharing Controls: Sharing is enabled by selecting the Share button and setting access to “Anyone with a link” — similar to Google Docs sharing.
- Expanded Collaboration: This feature encourages broader knowledge dissemination, making it easy for teams, students, and communities to distribute curated, AI-enhanced information.
By making curated knowledge easily shareable, NotebookLM is positioning itself as a more powerful tool for learning, collaboration, and organizational knowledge management.
Quick Hits from your favorite AI tools:
- ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode gets major upgrades for paid users. Advanced Voice now offers more natural intonation, emotional expressiveness, and real-time language translation, making conversations feel smoother and more human-like.
- Projects on Claude now support 10x more content, using a new retrieval mode to handle larger files and expand context seamlessly.
- Mistral launches Mistral Code for real-time coding assistance. Mistral’s new Mistral Code client introduces AI-driven code completion and generation with a vibe coding interface.
- Microsoft Bing debuts free Sora-powered AI video generator. Bing users can now create AI-generated videos using a free tool powered by OpenAI’s Sora, directly from the Bing platform without needing additional software.
- Google Gemini adds scheduled actions for planned tasks. Gemini users can now automate actions like sending messages or setting reminders directly from the app, turning planned tasks into hands-free workflows.
- Microsoft Copilot Labs introduces Copilot Actions for task automation. Copilot Actions, now available in Copilot Labs, allows users to automate everyday web tasks like booking hotels and making reservations directly through simple chat prompts.
Read more news at the end.
Tutorial:
Write a Custom Report From Your Data Using ChatGPT Connectors
In 5 Steps: Write a Custom Report From Your Data Using ChatGPT Connectors
Instead of chasing documents across multiple tools or manually compiling research, ChatGPT can now pull live information from your connected apps and generate a fully referenced report, saving hours of work. Here’s exactly how to do it.
The AI Executive Brief
New AI Tools to Try: Thiings, Huxe, and UISnapper
Looking for something fresh to add to your creative or business toolkit? These three AI tools caught my attention this week:
Thiings: AI-Enhanced Design Assets
Thiings offers a curated library of AI-generated 3D objects and illustrations, perfect for designers and developers looking for unique, high-quality assets to power their projects.
👉 Explore AI-generated assets with Thiings
Huxe: AI-Powered Personalized Podcasts
Founded by ex-NotebookLM members, Huxe creates custom podcasts from your calendar, emails, and interests, complete with dynamic visuals and real-time interactivity.
👉 Create personalized podcasts with Huxe
UISnapper: Turn Screenshots into UI Components
UISnapper converts screenshots into editable, production-ready Figma or code components. Save hours of manual design work by letting AI detect and recreate UI layouts instantly.
Anthropic’s CEO on AI regulations, Alphabet dismisses AI job fears, along with more crucial AI stories
Every day, Daan, Wendy, and I read all the AI news so that you don't have to.
Here are the must-read stories of the week:
Anthropic C.E.O.: Don’t Let A.I. Companies off the HookAnthropic’s CEO argues that governments should prioritize transparency rules over halting AI development to ensure safer AI progress.
Meta reportedly in talks to invest billions of dollars in Scale AI
Meta is in advanced discussions to pour billions into Scale AI, aiming to accelerate its model training efforts and reduce reliance on rivals like OpenAI and Google for foundational AI infrastructure.
The AI future is already here
New data shows companies are cutting back on traditional white-collar roles while aggressively hiring for AI-related positions, signaling a major workforce shift.
AI for Strategy, Responsible Adoption, and Prototyping: From the Community
Every day, Lead with AI PRO members discuss practical ways to benefit from AI in their work and organizations. This week's highlights include:
- Wyatt Barnett shared that ChatGPT just released new features for ChatGPT’s Business Plan. You can now record calls directly in ChatGPT and have them added to memory, connect your email so it replies based on everything it knows, and even sync with tools like HubSpot to update records or answer questions about your accounts. “This is 10x the value Chat offered yesterday,” Daan added. Check out the latest update HERE.
- Joe Harris also shared his go-to productivity stack that’s made email almost obsolete for him. His combo? Wispr plus Grammarly. “It helps me cut down an inbox in almost half the time,” Joe said. Wispr handles the heavy lifting of drafting, while Grammarly comes in to refine the tone and clean up the messages.
- Miriam Gilbert brought a creative twist to research workflows by combining Gemini’s deep research report capabilities with Canva’s “Create” feature. Within hours, she created an astonishing website on The UK's GenAI Adoption Journey. Check out Miriam’s result HERE.
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