We’re bringing new voice capabilities to @GoogleWorkspace to help you tackle daily tasks. These are now rolling out across @Gmail, @GoogleDocs, and Keep to help you search your inbox, organize your thoughts, or brainstorm new ideas conversationally.

Here's how you can use them… pic.twitter.com/GtGUE7ulb4

— Google (@Google) September 3, 2026

New voice capabilities across Google Workspace

Gmail Live

With Gmail Live, you can skip the manual search entirely. Use conversation search to find information, and Gmail Live will scan your inbox and give you answers quickly.

Docs Live

Instead of staring at a blank page, you can engage in real-time conversation with Docs Live to build structured, context-aware documents on the fly. Docs Live acts as your thought partner and co-writer to help you get to a first draft faster using your voice.

Just talk, and Docs Live handles the heavy lifting: organising your thoughts, structuring your document, and (with your permission) pulling relevant details directly from your Gmail, Drive, Chat, and the broader web.

Keep Live

Keep is usually used to note a quick idea or something that crosses your mind before you forget it. Now, you can talk to Keep Live to capture, structure, and refine your ideas into organised, actionable notes.

Keep’s new voice feature understands your stream of consciousness and processes it in the background, turning your thoughts into structured lists and notes without you having to type a single word.

Availability

These new conversational features are rolling out this week. They are available in Gmail and Keep for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers, and in Docs for Pro and Ultra subscribers.

All of these features will be coming soon for Google Workspace business customers.

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WhatsApp now gets a native in-app Bill Payments experience powered by Bharat Connect (formerly known as BBPS) in India.

WhatsApp’s upgraded in-app Bill Payments

The previous bill payment included services like mobile recharges, metro transit ticketing and official citizen services delivered via automated chatbots.

Now the upgraded in-app service connects 22,722 billers across 30 categories, such as electricity, water, piped gas, FASTag recharges, insurance premiums, credit card bills and loan repayments.

Key features of the in-app Bill Payments service:

• Pre-Fetched bill summaries: The platform automatically retrieves upcoming dues for linked accounts. Biller details from previous transactions are stored on the Payments Home Screen for recurring access.
• Multi-Account Management: Users can link and track multiple consumer accounts under a single provider.
• Payment flexibility: Supported payment methods include UPI, debit cards and credit cards.
• Categorised Discovery: Frequently used categories are highlighted on the main payments screen, alongside a directory providing access to the remaining categories.

How to make an in-app Bill Payment?

• Open WhatsApp and tap the rupee icon at the top of the home screen.
• Choose the relevant bill category and specific provider
• Enter and confirm the required consumer or account identifier
• Verify the auto-fetched bill details and outstanding amount
• Select a preferred payment method
• Authorise and complete the transaction

Availability

The feature is rolling out on a gradual basis across India and is scheduled to reach all Android and iOS users over the coming weeks.

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No smartphone? No internet? No problem. @PhonePe becomes the first major TPAP to launch PhonePe UPI 123Pay, extending digital payments to India’s 200M+ feature phone users!

🔹 Works offline via robust SMS tech
🔹 Pre-bundled on Nokia, HMD, Lava & itel
🔹 Supports P2P & QR…

— PhonePe (@PhonePe) August 31, 2026

PhonePe UPI 123Pay for feature phones in India

With this capability, PhonePe becomes the first major third-party application provider (TPAP) to extend UPI payments to India’s 200 million+ feature phone users.

PhonePe UPI 123Pay utilises a robust SMS-based architecture, ensuring transactions go through even in regions with limited 2G connectivity. The platform enables seamless peer-to-peer (P2P) transfers via mobile numbers or UPI IDs, alongside peer-to-merchant (P2M) payments through UPI IDs and QR code scanning.

Feature phone users can also manage their accounts, check account balances and view transaction histories. Upcoming updates will introduce advanced capabilities previously unavailable on feature phones, including bill payments, recharges, and Aadhaar-based onboarding onto UPI.

PhonePe has also introduced a voice-first, AI-powered helpline to guide feature phone users through setup and activation. The conversational voice assistant provides support in English and 12 Indian languages. Powered by advanced speech processing and AI reasoning, the assistant delivers step-by-step activation guidance and answers fundamental UPI queries for a secure, frictionless experience.

How to register for PhonePe UPI 123Pay?

• Open the PhonePe app pre-installed on your feature phone.
• Read & Accept the Terms & Conditions to complete the automated device registration.
• Select your bank from the options list.
• Enter the last 6 digits of your debit card and its expiry date.
• Set your UPI PIN. Your UPI ID is now active, and you can begin making payments immediately using PhonePe UPI 123Pay.

How to make payments on the PhonePe app?

• Users can open the PhonePe app on the feature phone and explore multiple ways to pay: Scan & Pay/ Contact Book/ Mobile Number or Pay to UPI
• Users can select “Pay to Mobile Number/Pay to UPI ID”
• Enter the mobile number/ UPI ID
• For feature phones with camera support, users can also use the “scan and pay” option to make payments
• Validate the details. Enter the amount and UPI PIN. Press OK to confirm and pay
• Users can check the next screen confirming successful payment

Availability

The service will come pre-bundled on Nokia, HMD, LAVA International and Itel Mobile- Transsion Holdings devices, with other handset manufacturer partnerships to follow in the coming months.

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In a recent update, OpenAI’s status page shows that “ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency.” The company states that users across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work and that it is continuing to work on a mitigation.

OpenAI has marked the incident as “Identified” and a partial outage. An earlier update specifically mentioned that Plus users were particularly impacted, with Work mode being unavailable for them.

Furthermore, the issue was first highlighted on Monday, August 31, 2026, at around 8:34 PM IST, when OpenAI said that users were experiencing elevated latency for the impacted services. This was followed by another update at around 8:51 PM IST, stating that users were experiencing elevated errors and that Plus users were particularly affected.

The latest update, posted at around 9:32 PM IST, reads:

Identified

“User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing to work on a mitigation.

Meanwhile, users have also reported issues online. One Reddit user said (post now removed) that ChatGPT Work would remain stuck on “Working” before eventually showing a network error, while regular ChatGPT continued to work normally. At around 9:55 PM, Downdetector also recorded around 1283 reports related to ChatGPT around the same period.

However, OpenAI’s official status page currently identifies ChatGPT Work as the affected service, so the incident should not be described as a platform-wide ChatGPT outage at this point.

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Google Health App 5.07 update

The update is being rolled out for both Android and iOS users.

What’s new?

Activity and Fitness updates

• Improved Manual Workout Logging: First, you can now add and adjust more metrics when logging an exercise manually. Your edits will also show up in the workout summaries more quickly once you’ve made them. And finally, you can now log more metrics when switching from a pool to open swim exercise.
• Maps: The maps experience is improved with faster loading times and smoother rendering and adjustments. An issue where maps were occasionally missing when using your phone to track a running, biking or walking session is also fixed.
• Running Distance Totals: Trail runs and incline runs now count toward your Running Distance totals.

Weight Tracking Updates

• Weight Graph: Google has recalibrated the graph’s dynamic minimum and maximum range so your weight trends and changes are easier to view at a glance.

Health Connect Updates

• An issue that caused some Android users to lose their connection with Health Connect is fixed. If you were impacted, you will now see Health Connect listed in the Partner Apps section of the Connections screen.

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Read more about this latest update below.

Brave Email Aliases – Details

Those who are on Brave’s desktop version 1.94 can now generate unique email aliases while signing up for different websites and online services. Messages received through these aliases will be forwarded to the user’s primary email inbox.

By using a different alias for every website, users can prevent their primary email address from being used as a common identifier for tracking their activities across the web. Moreover, if a particular alias starts receiving spam, it can be deactivated and replaced with a new one.

Brave points out that the Email Aliases feature extends its privacy protection beyond browser-level tracking prevention, as it also limits server-side matching based on users’ email addresses.

As part of the initial release, users will receive five email aliases for free. The company is also planning to introduce the feature on mobile devices, while a paid Premium version will be offered in the future.

Separate Brave Account Required

To use Email Aliases, users will have to create a separate Brave Account whcih should be different from the Brave Premium account used for managing services such as Brave VPN.

Similar to all account signups, users will be required to enter and verify their primary email address and create a password. Brave Accounts uses the standardised OPAQUE cryptographic protocol, and the account password is never sent to Brave’s servers.

Users can create an account by following the steps mentioned below:

• Open brave://settings/email-aliases.
• Select Log in or create a Brave account.
• Enter an email address and a strong password.
• Complete the email verification process.

After signing in, users can click on an email field while visiting a website to generate a new alias. If the automatic New Email Alias prompt does not appear, users can right-click on the email field and manually select the option.

The generated aliases can be managed by navigating to Settings > Autofill & Passwords > Email Aliases. Users can also access the management page directly through brave://settings/email-aliases.

Privacy and Data Protection

Brave adds that it securely stores the primary account email address and generats aliases, with the data being encrypted at rest.

Emails passing through the service are processed only for standard spam and virus filtering and are deleted from Brave’s servers within seconds once they are delivered to the user’s primary inbox.

Notes added to individual aliases are stored locally on the user’s device and if Brave Sync is enabled, these notes are end-to-end encrypted between devices connected to the same Sync chain, meaning that Brave cannot read the synced alias notes.

During the initial rollout, some forwarded emails may incorrectly appear in the spam folder and therefore Brave recommends to Users to mark such messages as Not spam, which should help improve future email delivery.

Stay tuned for more updates.

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Here is what has been revealed.

Xiaomi Smart Privacy Display – Details

As per the details shared by the tipster, Xiaomi’s Smart Privacy Display feature narrows the visible viewing angle of the screen at the hardware level, making the on-screen content difficult for others to view from the sides.

The feature is also said to continuously detect whether another person is looking at the screen and alert the user. However, the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra privacy display does not continuously detect people around you; instead, it operates based on manual toggles or app-specific triggers rather than active environment surveillance.

That's how "Smart privacy display" options will look on supported #Xiaomi device (likely upcoming flagship).

Video recorded on Global ROM. "Page privacy display" and Xiaomi Hyper XiaoAi groups are, at least for now, available only on China ROM. pic.twitter.com/AigocVrasZ

— Kacper Skrzypek 🇵🇱 (@kacskrz) August 28, 2026

Additionally, the screen grab shared by him also shows that the Page Privacy Display feature gets automatically triggered if turned on whenever the user opens a sensitive page, such as a password-entry screen, payment page, money-transfer page, or messaging page. On the other hand, Notification Privacy Display provides partial privacy protection for notifications received from selected applications.

Users will reportedly be able to create, manage, remove, and rename privacy-display app categories. Moreover, Xiaomi Hyper XiaoAI can create personalised application groups and configure smart activation rules. However, creating personalised app groups will require the Xiaomi Hyper XiaoAI Pro mode. This would mean that it might be limited to the China region as of now.

The tipster also tried enabling the feature on his device, but it did not work, which, according to him, is because the menu was enabled on HyperOS3 while the application came from HyperOS4, the required code was missing, or the display lacked the necessary hardware-level support.

As of now, the exact Xiaomi smartphone that will support this feature remains unknown. When asked whether it could arrive on the vanilla Xiaomi 18, the tipster declined to speculate, though he personally expressed doubt about the possibility.

Stay tuned for more updates.

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YouTube CEO Neal Mohan yesterday announced that Amazon is coming to YouTube’s Shopping affiliate program.

.@YouTube Shopping 🤝 @amazon

Exciting news: Amazon is coming to our YouTube Shopping affiliate program!

Eligible U.S. @YouTubeCreators will now be able to tag Amazon products in their Shorts, long-form videos and livestreams, making it even easier for viewers to buy the… pic.twitter.com/TP6DZE5iLx

— Neal Mohan (@nealmohan) August 27, 2026

As part of this, eligible US creators will now be able to tag Amazon products in their Shorts, long-form videos, and livestreams, making it easier for buyers to buy the products they love from the creators they trust.

This will also help creators maximise their channel earning potential compared to description links.

Eligibility

Creators must meet these criteria:

• You are enrolled in the YouTube Partner Program
• You are enrolled in the YouTube Shopping affiliate program in the US
• You are part of the Amazon Influencer Program (AIP) or Amazon Associates Program (AAP) and your account is active and in good standing
• You have linked your YouTube Channel to your AIP or AAP account

Do note that if you linked your AIP or AAP account to your YouTube channel before September 2024, you will need to re-link your account.

After your accounts are linked and your channel gains access, you can use the product picker tool in YouTube Studio to tag Amazon products in your content by tagging available products and auto-tagging content for your recent uploads.

When you tag Amazon products, you will see performance metrics in YouTube Studio Analytics, such as clicks and estimated revenue. Your finalised Amazon earnings are paid through your AdSense account with your existing YouTube Affiliate program payments.

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New First Draft feature on Instagram

First Draft gives creators a starting point for their Reels, so they can focus more on creativity and less on technical production. All you need to do is select your clips, and with one tap, the feature cuts the pauses and trims down your clips, so you have a starting point to build from in seconds.

But everything this feature does is reversible; you can reorder, remove, adjust or start over. First Draft is just introduced to handle the early video trimming so you can focus on technical production. The feature adapts to your footage and gets you past the starting point, whether it’s multi-clip montages, talking-head videos, or day-in-the-life content.

First Draft finds the pauses and silences in your talking videos and trims them, so what you said comes through without the gaps in between. You can select, edit and share without leaving the Instagram app.

How to access the First Draft feature?

There are two ways:

• Open Reels gallery- Select 1+ clips- Tap the “First Draft” button at the bottom of your screen- Review edit- Proceed to full edit or publish.
• Open in Instagram- Film your content- Tap the “First Draft” button- Review edit- Proceed to the full editor to publish.

The feature is initially available for iOS users only.

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WhatsApp – New Account Security Features

According to an official announcement shared by Meta, WhatsApp is upgrading its two-step verification feature to provide stronger protection against account takeover attempts.

Until now, WhatsApp’s two-step verification relied on a six-digit PIN and with the new update, it has now been upgraded to a full password that can be longer and include letters, numbers and special characters, making it more difficult to guess.

Speaking more, WhatsApp has revealed that more than one billion people have already set up passkeys, which allow users to log back into WhatsApp using their fingerprint, Face ID or device screen-lock code without relying on verification codes or PINs.

WhatsApp is also adding support for multiple passkeys to a single account, and this will be particularly useful for people who access their WhatsApp account using both Android and iOS devices.

To set up and manage the WhatsApp passkeys, you will need to go to Settings > Account > Passkeys within the application.

If you receive an unknown call on WhatsApp, the incoming-call screen will now show information such as whether the phone number belongs to a different country and whether the caller shares any WhatsApp groups with the user. However, this is currently limited to Android users only.

Stay tuned for more updates!

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