Pollinger’s Productivity : November 2025
| ChatGPT Atlas Launches |
| OpenAI has unveiled ChatGPT Atlas, a new web browser with ChatGPT built directly into its core. Launched on 21 October 2025 for macOS (with Windows and mobile versions coming soon), Atlas aims to make the browsing experience conversational. Instead of switching between tabs and searches, users can ask questions, summarise pages, and complete tasks directly within the browser interface. Want to book a train journey, airport hotel and flight? Atlas can help with that. |
| Insights: Atlas marks a major step toward AI-native computing, where the assistant becomes the interface. It’s an early look at how browsers could evolve – from a tool for finding information to a partner that helps create, interpret and act on it. Whilst you’re waiting for Atlas, check out the Comet Browser by Perplexity, which is available now. Its capabilities are impressive! |
| OpenAI Rolls Out Pulse |
| Last month, it was mentioned that Pulse was being tested. Well, it’s now launched for Pro users – i.e. those with the £200 per month plan. That might seem a crazy price for an AI tool, yet there are those who have invested in the Pro plan who think it’s worth it. But back to this new feature…Pulse proactively delivers tailored visual summaries each morning key updates, trends, and meeting reminders – based on your chat activity. |
| Insights: Pulse makes AI truly proactive, surfacing what matters before you even think to ask. Pulse is on a whole new level! |
| Buy Instantly in ChatGPT |
| As mentioned last month, OpenAI is rolling out a new ‘Buy it in ChatGPT’ feature (US-first, for now) that lets users discover, research and purchase products directly within ChatGPT. Major brands are now integrating Instant Checkout, and in a related move, PayPal has partnered with OpenAI to power these transactions securely and seamlessly inside the app. |
| Insights: This marks a major evolution from AI as a conversational ‘advisor’ to an action-taker – handling shopping research and payment in one flow. Expect conversational e-commerce to become mainstream, fast. For UK users, it’s worth preparing now: think about how your products or services could plug into ChatGPT once PayPal-enabled buying arrives here. |
| Company Knowledge in ChatGPT |
| OpenAI has launched Company Knowledge for Business, Enterprise and Educational users of ChatGPT: the tool connects your work apps (Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, SharePoint, Gmail etc) and allows ChatGPT to search across those sources and return business-specific answers, with citations. It respects your existing permissions (so it can only see what you’re authorised to view) and you must select “Company Knowledge” in the chat to enable it. |
| Insights: It’s likely that you have the Free or the Plus version, however,if you do have an ‘organisation version’, this feature shifts ChatGPT from a generic assistant to a corporate knowledge hub: the tool for answering questions about your business, your data, your workflows. It’s a chance to reduce context-switching and make AI part of the team, rather than just a separate tool. |
| ChatGPT Projects are now Shareable |
| OpenAI has introduced Project Sharing in a favourite ChatGPT feature – Projects. So it’s now even better! You can now invite others to collaborate inside ChatGPT Projects. Click Share in the Project menu, choose Invite collaborators to add specific people by email, or create a Sharing link for broader access. Collaborators can view, edit, and build on the same prompts, files, and outputs in real time. Great for joint research, content creation, or team workflows. It’s worth noting that Copilot Notebooks still doesn’t support sharing or co-editing. Each Notebook remains tied to an individual Microsoft 365 account. |
| Insights: This makes ChatGPT a much more practical team workspace, not just a solo sandbox. It’s perfect for co-developing reports, any sort of project, or AI workflows. The lack of sharing in Copilot Notebooks highlights how much faster OpenAI is moving on collaboration – something Microsoft needs to catch up on! |
| Copilot’s Autumn 2025 update |
| Microsoft’s “Fall” 2025 Copilot update is its most ambitious yet, introducing 12 major new AI features across Microsoft 365, Windows 11, and Edge. Highlights include personalised memory, so Copilot can recall context and preferences across sessions, voice activation with wake words like “Hey Copilot,” and a friendly new avatar interface called Mico that adds expression and natural conversation. Together, these upgrades make Copilot feel less like a plug-in and more like an integrated digital assistant woven through the Microsoft ecosystem. |
| Insights: This update turns Copilot from a tool into more of a companion or coworker. The addition of memory and Mico makes interaction feel human, while wake words bring a ‘hands-free’ AI experience to the desktop. For business people, the key is to explore where this context awareness can speed up repetitive workflows. |
| Build Apps in Microsoft 365 Copilot |
| Microsoft has unveiled App Builder for Microsoft 365 Copilot – a powerful new feature that lets users create functional apps such as dashboards, calculators, and data lists in just minutes. There’s no need for databases or coding; you simply describe what you need, and Copilot builds it for you using natural language. For everyday users, this bridges the gap between productivity and low-code development, giving anyone the ability to automate processes and prototype ideas directly inside Microsoft 365. Looks exciting but it’s not available in the UK yet. |
| Insights: This is where Copilot can become transformative for business. Instead of waiting for IT or external developers, teams can now build simple tools on demand. This AI-driven development can cut admin time with the resulting apps improving everyday productivity. |
| Copilot Voice Conversations |
| You may have noticed that voice conversations are now available in Copilot on desktop. This feature lets you speak naturally to Copilot, ask follow-up questions, and receive spoken replies, creating a more fluid, hands-free experience. It’s not as good as voice on ChatGPT and it’s not yet available on mobile, but it’s a sign that Microsoft is steadily expanding AI voice interaction. |
| Insights: Voice changes how people use AI – it’s faster, more natural, and less formal than typing, which I think we use way too much. Once this feature reaches everyone, I expect we’ll see a shift toward conversational, real-time use of Copilot. For now, it’s worth checking to see if you have the ‘audio pattern’ symbol to the right of the microphone icon in your chat window. |
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