Generative AI Tools & Use

Google replaced the "Gems" feature in the Gemini app with a new "Skills" feature, launching it globally on September 30.

• •Google announced on September 30 (US time) that it is replacing the "Gems" feature in the Gemini app with "Skills."
• •The "Skills" feature began rolling out globally in Gemini chats on the same day.
• •It is planned to be available for Google Workspace business, enterprise, non-profit, and education users within weeks.

Meta released "Muse Gadgets," an SDK for creating hardware that integrates with its personal AI agent, "Muse."

• •Meta released "Muse Gadgets" on October 2, 2026, which integrates with the personal AI agent "Muse."
• •This SDK is used by users to build custom hardware that connects with "Muse."
• •"Muse" is currently a personal AI agent available in the US and other regions.

DNP and DCD launched a brand visibility support service for the generative AI era, utilizing Adobe's 'ABV'.

• •The service utilizes Adobe Inc.'s 'Adobe Brand Visibility (ABV)'.
• •Analyzes mentions and recommendations of a company's brands or products in generative AI responses.
• •Supports improvements in brand visibility based on the analysis results.

A demo of 'Kikuvi', an AI hearing agent that can be experienced for about four minutes without registration, has been released.

Hitachi Solutions Nishi Nihon launched a new service using generative AI to streamline the verification of business regulations for financial institutions.

• •Launched the 'Business Regulation Knowledge Search and Utilization Service' to streamline the verification work performed by financial institution staff.
• •Supports high-precision search of business regulations, as well as document generation and text editing.
• •Promoted as applicable to a wide range of financial institution operations.

A tool called "Backburner" was released on GitHub, utilizing an iPhone as an external GPU for Mac to accelerate local AI processing.

• •The tool "Backburner" was released, using an iPhone as an external GPU for Mac to speed up local AI processing.
• •The tool is available on GitHub.
• •Installation on both the Mac and the iPhone is required to use it.

Tibo, leading OpenAI's Codex development, announced a 28-day improvement plan or reset to enhance the quality of ChatGPT Work and Codex.

• •Tibo, leading OpenAI's Codex development, announced the improvement plan on X on October 4.
• •The goal is to release one clear improvement relevant to the majority of users every day for the next 28 days.
• •He indicated a policy of performing a full reset if the improvements are not achieved.

Neo Japan began providing version 9.7 of its groupware "desknet's NEO," enabling the deployment of the latest LLMs within companies.

• •The new version, "Version 9.7 (V9.7)," with enhanced AI assistant features, has been released.
• •Users can now deploy the latest LLMs, such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, within their organizations via the groupware.
• •The update includes feature enhancements to support the internal deployment of generative AI infrastructure.

Strata v0.1.39, an inference environment for running the local LLM Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on consumer PCs, was released on October 4.

• •Strata is freely available on GitHub, and existing users can update it by running UPDATE.bat or update.sh.
• •It supports running local LLMs on consumer PC environments, including older-generation GeForce and Intel Arc GPUs.
• •It functions as an open-source inference environment for easily running the local LLM Qwen3.8-Flash-Next.

Amazon's Kindle Store is holding a special autumn sale until October 8, offering over 50,000 e-books at up to 75% off.

• •For a limited time until October 8, over 50,000 e-books are available at up to 75% off.
• •Many AI-related books are included, with "The Mechanism of AI Agents" available for 1,034 yen.
• •As part of the sale, books on AI technology and its applications are offered at special prices.