🧠 Everyone's Suddenly Obsessed With Templates

Starting September 2, Gemini Notebook is changing how its usage limits work. Instead of getting a fixed daily limit that resets every 24 hours, your allowance will refresh every five hours.

How much of that allowance you use will depend on what you’re asking Notebook to do. Longer chats, more complex prompts, lots of sources, and heavier features will use more of it.

If you hit your limit, you won’t necessarily have to stop working. Notebook may suggest a lighter way to complete the task, or queue bigger jobs like Video Overviews and Slide Decks to run once your allowance refreshes.
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ChatGPT Work now lets you turn a good example into a reusable template.

On desktop or web, tag @Template-Creator and give it something you’ve already made, such as a Word document, spreadsheet, presentation, PDF, Google file, or reference folder. It looks at how the file is structured, formatted, and written, then creates a template you can use again.

The next time you need to create something in the same format, you can use that saved template and give ChatGPT the new information. You don’t have to explain the structure, formatting, and style all over again. It’s useful if you regularly create the same kinds of reports, documents, or presentations.

If you’ve created a bot with a specific role, set of skills, tools, and routines, you can package that setup into a shareable template with Grok. Someone else can then install it with one click instead of building the same bot from scratch. You’ll need the latest version of the desktop or mobile app to use the feature.

People are already sharing some interesting examples on X, including a project manager bot that coordinates coders and designers through Notion, and another designed to control home robots.

If people start sharing their best setups more widely, we could soon see libraries of ready-made Grok bots for different jobs and workflows.

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Bocconi University and OpenAI's economic research team just ran a randomized trial on over 1,000 first-year students, and the result complicates the "AI makes people lazier thinkers" narrative in an interesting way.

Students built marketing recommendations for their university's merchandise store, split into four groups: ChatGPT access, causal-reasoning training, both, or neither. The group with ChatGPT scored nearly a full point higher on a five-point rubric graded by humans.

The causal-reasoning training (which had nothing to do with AI) didn't move rubric scores at all. What it did was widen the range of ideas students came up with, pushing them toward answers their classmates hadn't thought of. The rubric just wasn't built to catch that kind of originality.

Put the two together and you get the best of both: students with ChatGPT and the training kept the idea variety from the training group and the polish from the tool. Worth remembering next time someone frames AI and critical thinking as an either-or.

Read the full paper here.