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Now that Google has changed how its usage quotas are tallied, you might not get as many AI responses as you did before.

In letters sent to Apple and Google, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said that both companies have long been aware that they are hosting apps in violation of state law.

The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.

Your customers would rather message you on WhatsApp than fill in a contact form. That's fine at ten conversations a day. At a hundred, messages get missed, nobody knows which rep is on which deal, and at month-end somebody rebuilds the commission sheet by hand and gets it wrong. The usual answer is a $49–$499/month WhatsApp SaaS platform, priced per seat, with your customer data living in someone else's database. This post is the other answer: the same workflow on Google Sheets + Apps Script — and the one piece I see teams get wrong every single time, with the code to fix it. Where DIY WhatsApp automation actually breaks It isn't the messaging. Wiring a WhatsApp webhook into a sheet is a couple of hours of work, and I've written that build up separately — the webhook, the AI reply, and the lock that stops two reps chasing the same lead are all in Build a WhatsApp Sales Inbox in Google Sheets . I won't repeat it here. The part that breaks is the commission math . Someone writes =IF(revenue>10000, revenue*0.08, revenue*0.05) into a column, and three things kill it: A single sale spans two tiers — the formula charges the whole amount at one rate. The tiers change in July , and now every historical row recalculates at the new rate. A customer refunds in August on a sale from June, and nobody can unwind it without breaking the audit trail. So that's what this post builds: a tiered commission engine that survives rule changes and refunds. 1. Put the tiers in a table, never in a formula This is the whole trick. Make a Commission Rules tab, one row per rule: rule_id | rep_id | effective_from | effective_to | tier_1_cap | tier_1_pct | | | | | tier_2_cap | tier_2_pct | tier_3_pct --------+----------+----------------+--------------+------------+------------+----------- R1 | ALL | 2026-01-01 | | 10000 | 0.05 | | | | | 50000 | 0.08 | 0.10 R2 | rep_ayse | 2026-06-01 | | 10000 | 0.06 | | | | | 50000 | 0.09 | 0.12 rep_id is either a specific rep or ALL (the house default). Percenta

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.

Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.

Today, the European Union ordered Google to give its AI rivals greater access to Android, the open-source operating system that powers billions of devices worldwide. The demand is hardly surprising. It may look like a defeat on paper for Google, which has spent years resisting exactly this kind of access, but it is a regulatory […]

You can now make playlists, design flyers and compile shopping lists using AI in Search.

Google already baked NotebookLM into Gemini, now it's changing the name to reflect the tighter integration

Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a standalone app even as it integrates more deeply across Gemini and Google Search. Google first revealed Gemini Notebook - then called Project Tailwind - in May 2023 before widely releasing […]

Google said users can soon access their notebooks through AI Mode in Search.

With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.

Bluetooth and Wi-Fi work in tandem to power the wireless Android Auto experience.

Google has been ordered by the EU to open up key Android handset features to rival AI voice assistants.

Google must give rival AI assistants and search engines greater access to key parts of Android and Google Search after the European Union ordered the company to comply with the bloc's digital antitrust rules. The two decisions, handed down Thursday, could weaken Google's control over two of the tech industry's most important platforms and have […]

A new teaser for Google's upcoming Pixel 11 lineup reveals that the phones will feature some kind of glowing orb on the camera bar, as reported by 9to5Google. Google's store page for the Pixel 11 has a short video that shows the glowing, color-shifting orb to the one side of the camera bar. The store […]

Google's biggest solar and battery project stands in sharp contrast with xAI's nearby unpermitted power plant.

With the settlement withdrawn, Google is now bound by the court's full antitrust remedies.

Eco-friendly routes on Google Maps are worth checking out, but there are a few things to know before you do.

Third-party app stores are coming to Android on July 22.