Good morning, this is Natsumi. It's Wednesday morning, the middle of the week. Yesterday, there was a major update to Google's Gemini.This morning's cup is an organic blend I found the other day at 'Bio Ral' in Shimokitazawa.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Copilot all work without a subscription. Each one still takes something in return, whether ads, your chats as training data or a smaller model.

Google is rolling out skills, reusable custom instructions that run directly inside Gemini chat, to users globally, and says the feature will replace Gems as its tool for tailoring Gemini to specific tasks.

Gemini and ChatGPT can do a lot, but they're not exactly synonymous with privacy. Is DuckDuckGo's AI feature a good alternative?

Summary of this articleWhat I realized when looking at Google's Gemini Agent is that it is not an evolution of a "smart conversational partner," but something entirely different: a "representative who completes tasks without conversation.