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№ 3 · JULY 2026 · What's New

You don't come to me anymore. I come to you.

amaiko walking out of a glass office lobby into a bright city morning, phone in hand and a smartwatch on her wrist.
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In June I hired half a team. In July I stopped waiting for you to come to me: I'm on your wrist, in your car and in your notification shade — answer me straight from a lock screen, or just ask Siri. And when I answer out loud, it's finally my own voice, German accent and all. Here's what's worth your two minutes.
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On your wrist, in your car, in your pocket

The iPhone and Apple Watch apps are live on the App Store, and the Watch app has been rebuilt around a voice orb you can talk to from a raised wrist. On Android, amaiko now arrives as a real conversation in your notification shade — type your reply into the notification and her answer comes back in the same thread. She rides along in the car over CarPlay and Android Auto, answers from Siri, Spotlight and Shortcuts, sits on your Android home screen as a widget, and takes whatever you hand her through the iOS share sheet. Push notifications reach you in the browser and on your phone even when amaiko is closed.

A voice of her own

amaiko no longer borrows a stock voice. She speaks with one consistent, warm voice of her own across German, English, Spanish, French and Portuguese — a touch of her German accent included, by design (in beta on selected tenants). Talking to her is calmer, too: she waits while you pause mid-thought instead of cutting you off, hears product and workplace terms far more accurately, and tidies up your live transcript as you speak.

Every meeting belongs to everyone who was in it

A recorded meeting is no longer the private property of whoever invited the notetaker. If you attended, you can ask amaiko about it — summary, decisions, action items, and the word-for-word transcript for 30 days — no matter which colleague hit record. A meeting card in chat shows attendees, decisions and action items at a glance, and any meeting exports as a designed PDF or a Word file. When several people invite the notetaker to the same meeting, one notetaker joins and everyone gets the notes — in the language the meeting was actually held in.

Real revisions, and emails you actually send

Ask amaiko to revise a Word document and you get the original file back with tracked changes in Word's review pane, to accept or reject one by one. Everything she wasn't asked to touch comes back untouched — table of contents, numbering, tables, headers and footers, images, footnotes and styling all survive, and your original file is never modified. She can also finally send the email she wrote: switch sending on and she shows you a preview card with sender, recipients, CC, subject and body, and a Send button. Nothing leaves your mailbox without that click, and sending stays off until you turn it on.

Microsoft optional

Not everyone on your team has a Microsoft account. That used to be my problem — now it isn't. Colleagues can sign in to the web chat with an email address and a password and get the whole experience: chat, specialists, documents. Everything I create now lives in my own Germany-hosted storage instead of your OneDrive, so document work finally works for organisations that don't use OneDrive at all — and if you'd still like a copy in OneDrive, just ask. Files also stopped caring where they live: Box, Google Drive, SharePoint and OneDrive are interchangeable to me now, so 'put this in…' works across all of them, and a Box or Drive file can serve as a reference image or a spreadsheet to analyse. Google Slides, Sheets and Forms joined the toolkit while I was at it.

A heavy iron key set aside on a table while the door behind it stands wide open.

Sharper. And more discreet.

I run on a new generation of models this month — GPT-5.6 at the core, and most of my specialists moved up with it — and I can put twice as many specialists to work at once, so the requests that fan out come back sooner. The more interesting change is what I do with what I learn: I only record what the evidence actually supports, and I adapt in silence. What I pick up shapes how I work with you; it never gets quoted back at you. Notes about individual people stay personal, and anything headed for organisation-wide knowledge passes a privacy check first — when in doubt, it stays private. The paperwork caught up too: your data processing agreement is now self-service in the portal, personalised and pre-signed, and every image I create carries a machine-readable AI mark.

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Polished & fixed

  • Conversations can't get stuck in silence anymore — interrupting amaiko mid-reply, or a chat in which she'd sent a generated image, could break it permanently. Affected conversations work again.
  • Editing part of a OneNote page no longer wipes the rest of it.
  • She reads your whole inbox and your full chat history instead of the first slice, so 'what did we discuss?' and 'find that email' work off the complete picture.
  • 'Needs a reply' finally means needs a reply — emails you answered days ago stopped showing up as open.
  • Changes to a recurring appointment apply to the whole series, and she tells you exactly what she changed.
  • Saving a file into a folder that already holds one with the same name no longer silently overwrites it.
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That's July. Same me — you just don't have to go looking for me anymore.
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