AI Tidbits – AI Is No Longer Watching — It’s Buying, Booking, and Coaching

AI Tidbits – AI Is No Longer Watching — It’s Buying, Booking, and Coaching

2026 is shaping up to be the year AI stops being something you use and starts becoming something that acts on your behalf. We’re moving from chatbots to autonomous digital agents that buy, book, summarize, predict, and even show up in physical form. This week’s updates make one thing clear: the interface is disappearing and AI is stepping directly into real life. 🚀

 

🧊 A Hologram on Your Desk

Razer’s Project AVA debuted at CES 2026 — a glowing, physical hologram powered by Grok that lives inside a futuristic cylinder.
It’s not just eye candy. It’s built for:

• 🎮 Game coaching
• 💡 Brainstorming
• 📋 Task guidance

This is the first serious attempt at giving AI a physical presence — not a screen, not a speaker, but something that feels there. Expect more of these as AI moves out of phones and into rooms.

 

🏥 ChatGPT Health Is Live

OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Health — a new experience that:

• Analyzes your health information
• Gives guidance
• Helps you understand insurance and medical decisions

This is one of the boldest moves yet. Healthcare is high-stakes, high-trust, and highly regulated — which makes this both powerful and sensitive.
If OpenAI gets this right, it could reshape how people manage their health. If they get it wrong… the consequences are just as big.

 

🛒 The AI Buy Button War Has Started

AI already drove 20% of all global holiday orders, generating $262B in revenue.
Even crazier: AI-referred shoppers converted 9× more than social-media traffic.

Now Microsoft has entered the arena with Copilot Checkout, joining:

• OpenAI
• Perplexity
• Gemini
• Amazon’s Rufus

All now capable of shopping and paying on your behalf.
This isn’t a feature war anymore — it’s the opening battle for agentic commerce. And 2026 may be the year your AI becomes your personal buyer.

 

📧 Gmail Becomes an AI Assistant

Gmail is no longer just an inbox — it’s becoming a proactive AI manager:

• 📜 AI Overviews summarize long threads
• ✍️ Suggested Replies write drafts
• 🧹 Proofread polishes your emails

Rolling out now in the U.S. and globally soon, Gmail is shifting from where messages live to where decisions get made.

 

✈️ Book Cheaper Flights with AI

Google Flights just got conversational with Flight Deals — an AI-powered way to search flights in plain English.

Instead of endless date-hunting, you can now type:

• “Find me direct flights from LA to Paris under $500 for a week in February.”
• “Best flights to Cancun for a long weekend in November.”
• “Cheapest nonstop from Bogotá to NYC in January.”

It responds with:

• ✈️ Airlines
• ⏱ Duration
• 💸 Savings vs usual price

What it can’t do (yet)

Because it’s still in Beta:

• ❌ No multi-city or open-jaw trips
• ❌ No round-the-world tickets
• ❌ No award or points searches
• ❌ No regional airport sweeps (“all of Europe”)

Still, this is a big shift: flight search is becoming conversational — like having a digital travel agent who happens to be… you.

 

🧠 Enthralling Prompt of the Week

Try this in Nano Banana or Gemini:

“Create an infographic image of Burj Khalifa, combining a real photograph of the landmark with blueprint-style technical annotations and diagrams overlaid on the image. Include the title ‘Burj Khalifa’ in a hand-drawn box in the corner. Add white chalk-style sketches showing key structural data, important measurements, material quantities, internal diagrams, load-flow arrows, cross-sections, floor plans, and notable architectural or engineering features. Style: blueprint aesthetic with white line drawings on the photograph, technical/architectural annotation style, educational infographic feel, with the real environment visible behind the annotations.”

Perfect for turning landmarks into shareable engineering art 🏗️.

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Last Thought

AI is no longer just answering questions.
It’s shopping, booking, summarizing, coaching, and even showing up in physical form.

The future isn’t coming.
It’s already logging into your Gmail. 😄

Till next Tuesday 😊