Today’s menu 🍽️👇️ 

Length: 5 minutes ⏰ 

• Google expands AI Mode to 180 countries 🌍

• Meta launches AI-powered Reels dubbing 🤖 

• Gemini Live can now highlight real objects 👓

• Excel adds =COPILOT() AI formula 🤖

• Design stunning graphics in minutes with Kittl Flows✨

• Prompt of the week 💬

• Top AI tools of the week ⚒️

FRESH AI NEWS

Google Search gets restaurant booking via AI 🍽️

Google is making AI Mode available in 180 countries and adding new features, such as the ability to book restaurants. This will provide users around the world with a smarter and more action-focused search experience ✈️

• Google is expanding AI Mode in Search to 180 countries and territories, beyond the US, UK, and India, but it's currently only available in English 🌍

• AI Mode now offers agentic features like restaurant reservations through OpenTable, Resy, and SeatGeek, but only for AI Ultra subscribers 🍽️

• In the US, AI Mode Labs offers personalized dining suggestions based on past searches and allows users to share and delete search threads with others 🔗

Why You Should Care: This expansion and new features show a change from just giving answers to actively helping users. Google is moving towards not only answering questions but also assisting with tasks, highlighting its focus on AI-driven search experiences.

Meta AI brings voice dubbing to Reels 🎤

Meta has introduced an AI voice translation tool for Reels on Facebook and Instagram, dubbing videos between English and Spanish while preserving the creator's voice and syncing lip movements 🌐

• Creators can enable "Translate your voice with Meta AI" for reels, translating their speech into English or Spanish while maintaining the original voice tone 🗣️

• Users can preview and enable lip-syncing to match their mouth movements with the dubbed language, making the translation feel natural and seamless 👄

• The feature is now live globally for Facebook creators with 1,000+ followers and all public Instagram accounts with Meta AI. Creators also receive a new metric: views segmented by language 🌍

Why You Should Care: Meta makes it easy for creators to share their stories with people who speak different languages, without changing their style or adding extra work. This helps Reels become more interesting to a global audience.

Gemini Live brings camera-powered assistance 📱

Gemini Live can now show you real-world objects on your screen while you chat with its AI assistant, making it easier to interact visually 🤖

• By sharing your camera feed, Gemini Live can visually highlight objects it references, such as selecting a tool or identifying the best shoes 🔲

• Initially launching on Pixel 10 devices on August 28, this visual assistance feature will soon expand to other Androids and later to iOS 📱

• Gemini Live's audio is upgraded with richer intonation, emotion-sensitive responses, and adjustable speed and accents for a more natural conversation 🗣️

Why You Should Care: Gemini Live uses visual and audio features to make AI conversations more natural and helpful for real-world tasks.

Excel gets GPT-powered formulas 💡

Microsoft introduced =COPILOT() in Excel, enabling users to fill, summarize, and analyze data using everyday language, integrating AI directly into the software 🤖

• Type formulas like =COPILOT("Classify this feedback", D4:D18) to categorize feedback or generate summaries and tables, powered by OpenAI’s gpt-4.1-mini model 📝

• The function integrates with tools like IF, SWITCH, LAMBDA, and WRAPROWS. Since it's part of Excel’s calculation engine, results update automatically when your data changes 🔄

• Rolling out to Microsoft 365 Copilot beta users on Windows and Mac, with an Excel for the web release coming soon. Limited to 100 calls per 10 minutes; not for high-risk scenarios like legal or financial decisions ⏱

Why You Should Care: With Copilot built into cells, Excel changes from a simple spreadsheet tool into an AI-powered helper, making it quicker and easier to analyze, organize, and summarize data.

TURN IDEAS INTO DESIGNS

Master creative designs with Kittl Flows 🎨

Struggling with tricky design software that slows you down? Spending hours adjusting layouts, learning complicated tools, or searching for the right template, only to end up with results that don’t look professional? Kittl fixes that.

Kittl is a browser-based design platform that combines professional tools, like text effects, vector editing, the pen tool, and shape builder, with an easy-to-use workflow and ready-made templates. This lets you create digital and print-ready designs in minutes, whether you are working alone or with others.

Here’s how to get started 👇️ 

1. Head over to Kittl Flows and start a new project. Select any Artboard with an existing design, logo, or image.

   

2. In the properties panel, hit Add Smartboard. 

   

3. A Smartboard appears, automatically linked to your Artboard so context flows from one step to the next.

   

4. You can also browse their massive library of ready-made templates tailored for different industries and aesthetics to fill the white box or upload your own picture.

   

5. After selecting your Smartboard, you’ll find the prompt box in the properties panel on the top-right corner of the screen to directly create what you want. Write a prompt like: “Anime-inspired t-shirt design, cyberpunk girl with neon background”. Then choose your aspect ratio and hit generate.

   
   

6. You can also upload your own logo, pic or design to white box and then give a prompt in the property panel like shown in the picture below. Basically repeat the same steps as earlier.

   

7. Once you’re satisfied export & Share your finished design in high-quality formats for web or print.

Pro Tip: Use Kittl’s AI text-to-graphic prompt to instantly generate unique vintage-style logos or illustrations, then tweak the typography for that final branded touch ✨

With Kittl, you can:

• Create designs for print, digital, merchandise, or marketing in one workspace. You get vector, pixel, and layout tools all in one place 🎨

• Access thousands of designer-crafted templates, over 1,200 fonts, and more than 68,000 elements, mockups, textures, and high-resolution stock images. All with one subscription 📚

• Use AI-powered tools for image generation, background removal, upscaling, vectorizing, and text creation 🤖

• Export in the right formats and DPI for print, print-on-demand platforms, or online use 📦

• Collaborate in real time with your team or clients, share feedback, and make approvals easier 🤝

• Sell your creations worry-free with clear commercial licensing 🛡️

Get 25% off on all Kittl plans — use code HOWTOAI25 👈️

PROMPT OF THE WEEK

AI-driven sales forecasting 🎯

Simply paste this prompt:

“Generate a 12-month sales forecast for [company/product] using historical sales data [insert]. Factor in seasonality, industry trends, and competitor moves. Provide three scenarios (best, base, worst) with monthly revenue projections. Recommend AI tools for ongoing forecast updates.”

🔧Pro tip: Ask for “a forecast visualization chart + action plan if targets are missed.”

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TOOLS OF THE WEEK

These AI tools are going VIRAL 🐝 

GPT-5 - Automate complex tasks like coding, research, and planning with one prompt 🤖 

Stormy - AI agent for influencer marketing 💻

Copilot 3D - Turn images into 3D models with one click 📸

Hunyuan Gamecraft - Turn a single image into a living game universe 🎮