The Mac has a decent text replacement tool built in, which I mentioned when I talked about how I fixed my worst writing habits. Windows, it turns out, doesn't. So I'm glad I found Beeftext.

These text shortcut tools are a must-have productivity upgrade for many knowledge workers, and they can even help you at home. If you haven’t given one a go yet, you’re missing out.

The new feature, called "computer use," is in public beta. It enables its latest AI model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, to start using a computer in a similar way to humans.

SynthID Text is freely available to developers and businesses starting today. We’re not sure if Google is going to release a user-facing tool for casual people to check if text is AI-generated.

Truth is, it’s hard to know whether a particular chunk of text is AI-generated or actually written by a human. Google is hoping to make it easier to spot by open-sourcing its new software tool.

Google’s SynthID text watermarking tool is now available for developers to use after Google open sourced it through the Google Responsible Generative AI Toolkit.