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Google brings AI to Chrome

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Zach Mink

September 19, 2025

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Comet, Arc, Brave, and others may have fired the first shots in the AI browser wars, but it was only a matter of time until Google made its play.

With Gemini now embedded into the sidebar of the most used web browser in the world, the search giant is finally about to turn its Chrome monopoly into an AI distribution superpower.

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In today’s AI rundown:

Google embeds Gemini into Chrome
AI designs first working virus genomes
Get a daily AI summary of emails with Gumloop
Luma’s Ray3 reasoning video model
4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE

🌐 Google embeds Gemini into Chrome

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The Rundown: Google just introduced new Gemini integration across its Chrome browser for all U.S. desktop users, giving the platform new AI-powered capabilities for multi-tab context, an embedded AI Mode, and more.

The details:

Chrome now features native Gemini access via a dedicated button, allowing users to analyze info and content across tabs without switching windows.
Chrome's address bar gains AI Mode later this month, enabling multi-part questions with follow-ups directly where users already search and navigate.
Google also previewed upcoming agentic capabilities that will handle multi-step tasks autonomously, from grocery shopping to appointment booking.

Why it matters: Google's rollout of Gemini into its dominant Chrome browser is about to make the AI assistant sidebar as common as a URL box. While competitors scrambled to build new browsers from scratch, Google’s AI infusion was always lurking — and marks the biggest step yet towards a mainstream AI-powered browsing future.

TOGETHER WITH ZAPIER

⚡️ ZapConnect: Where AI steps into the spotlight

The Rundown: Join Zapier live on Sept. 25 at 9 AM PST for ZapConnect, a virtual event that spotlights the power of AI to drive real-world results through hands-on workshops, actionable tips, and lessons from cutting-edge organizations.

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Cutting-edge AI workflows
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ARC INSTITUTE

🧬 AI designs first working virus genomes

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The Rundown: Researchers at Stanford and the Arc Institute just created the first AI-generated, entirely new viruses from scratch that successfully infect and kill bacteria, marking a breakthrough in computational biology.

The details:

Scientists trained an AI model called Evo on 2M viruses, then asked it to design brand new ones — with 16 of 302 attempts proving functional in lab tests.
The AI viruses contained 392 mutations never seen in nature, including successful combos that scientists had previously tried and failed to engineer.
When bacteria developed resistance to natural viruses, AI-designed versions broke through defenses in days where the traditional viruses failed.
One synthetic version incorporated a component from a distantly related virus, something researchers had attempted unsuccessfully to design for years.

Why it matters: We’re at the starting line of a completely new era of AI-driven scientific discovery. As the Arc Institute elegantly put it, “the transition from reading and writing genomes to designing them represents a new chapter in our ability to engineer biology at its foundational level.”

AI TRAINING

📧 Get a daily AI summary of your emails with Gumloop

The Rundown: In this tutorial, you will learn how to get a daily summary of your emails using Gumloop's new AI agent "Gummie." Instead of manually wiring nodes and triggers, you describe what you want, and it drafts the entire workflow for you.

Step-by-step:

Go to Gumloop.com, create a New workbook, and choose the AI Feature path instead of manual node setup
Browse department presets for inspiration or select "Other" and use this prompt: "Summarize my unread emails from the last 24 hours"
Review Gummie's suggested flow plan with nodes for reading unread emails, structuring records, combining content, and generating summaries
Run the automation and evaluate your email summary for accuracy, making adjustments to nodes and prompts as needed

Pro Tip: If you don't know what to prompt Gummie to automate, explain your problem to ChatGPT and ask it to list 10 ways to automate the issue with specific AI tools.

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Multi-model orchestration with Nano Banana, Veo 3, GPT-Image, and more
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LUMA AI

🎬 Luma’s Ray3 reasoning video model

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The Rundown: Luma AI just released Ray3, a reasoning-powered video model capable of generating studio-quality HDR footage while critiquing its own outputs to deliver better results.

The details:

Ray3 produces native HDR video for cinematic quality outputs, with the ability to export into file formats for integration into professional editing workflows.
The model's reasoning allows it to understand nuanced directions, evaluate its own generations, and iterate automatically until outputs meet quality standards.
Ray3 also introduces visual annotation controls that let creators sketch directly on frames to guide movement and camera angles.
A new Draft Mode generates rough previews in 20 seconds at one-fifth the cost, then upgrades selected shots to full 4K HDR quality in under five minutes.

Why it matters: Hailing Ray3 as the world’s first reasoning video model, Luma just brought a brand new dynamic to generations — having the system evaluate and refine before the final output. With HDR quality, editing, and annotation capabilities, AI video continues to become customizable for even the most demanding needs.

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📰 Everything else in AI today

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Meta is reportedly pursuing AI content licensing deals with major media companies, including Axel Springer, Fox, and News Corp, joining other major AI players.

Notion launched Notion 3.0, featuring AI agents that can complete multi-step workflows, access integrated tools, and work for up to 20 minutes at a time.

Amazon added agentic AI to its Seller Assistant, enabling it to handle tasks like managing inventory, monitoring account health, and developing growth strategies.

Nvidia and Intel announced a new partnership to co-develop x86 processors for AI infrastructure and PC products, with Nvidia also investing $5B in Intel.

COMMUNITY

🤝 Community AI workflows

Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.

Today’s workflow comes from reader Nancy M. in Cape Charles, VA:

"ChatGPT has become my behind-the-scenes creative partner in my art career—it helps me brainstorm new painting ideas, refine product descriptions for my paintings, craft lesson plans for my students, and even polish press releases and outreach emails so my work reaches the right audience. It’s like having a collaborator who’s always ready with fresh ideas, marketing strategies, and time-saving tools, so I can spend more of my energy doing what I love: creating art."

How do you use AI? Tell us here.