Another Crazy Day in AI: Your Notion Workspace Can Now Run on Autopilot
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Hello, AI Enthusiasts.
Here's another crazy day in AI:
Notion just gave your team a new kind of coworker
Nano Banana 2 boosts speed and visual quality
Stripe eyes potential deal for PayPal
Some AI tools to try out
🎧 Listen to a quick breakdown of today’s stories.
TODAY'S FEATURED ITEM: Notion Launches Custom Agents
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How much of your workday is spent on tasks that could run just fine without you?
Notion's Co-founder Akshay Kothari just announced the public launch of Custom Agents. A new feature designed to automate recurring team workflows. The write-up explains how these autonomous tools can monitor activity, answer common questions, route requests, and compile updates across connected apps. The focus is on reducing the manual coordination that often takes up a large portion of team time. Kothari also shares how these agents are already transforming workflows at companies like Ramp, Braintrust, Clay, and Remote, and outlines everything teams need to know to get started.
A few things the article walks through:
Custom Agents run based on triggers you set — they don't need to be prompted each time
They connect with Notion, Slack, Gmail, Calendar, Figma, Linear, and custom MCP servers
Setting one up starts with a plain description of what you need; the agent handles its own instructions and tool connections from there
More than 21,000 agents were built during early testing — Ramp runs over 300, including one that answers product roadmap questions daily
Remote replaced their IT help desk with a single agent and saved around 20 hours per week
Admins get usage dashboards, logged runs, detailed permissions, reversible actions, and auto-pause when credits are running low
Starting May 4, 2026, Custom Agents move to a usage-based credit model — current seat pricing stays the same, and other Notion AI features remain included
Free to use through May 3, 2026 for Business and Enterprise plan users
Notion acknowledges prompt injection as a real security risk and is building detection guardrails — they advise limiting agent access and being deliberate about what content agents are exposed to
Notion does not train on your content, and Enterprise plans include zero data retention
Automation tools like this tend to look straightforward on paper, but the real test is always in day-to-day use — how reliable they are, how much oversight they actually need, and whether the time saved justifies the setup involved. Those are questions worth sitting with, especially before the free period ends and credits start counting.
What's useful about this article, regardless of whether you use Notion, is that it surfaces a practical conversation most teams haven't had yet — which parts of your workflow genuinely benefit from running on autopilot, and which ones carry enough nuance that a human still needs to be involved.
Read the full article here.
OTHER INTERESTING AI HIGHLIGHTS:
Nano Banana 2 Boosts Speed and Visual Quality
/Naina Raisinghani, (Google DeepMind Product Manager), on Google Blogs - The Keyword
Google is rolling out Nano Banana 2, a new image generation model designed to deliver Pro-level quality at much faster speeds. The update brings stronger world knowledge, improved instruction following, and more consistent multi-character outputs into a Flash-tier workflow. It also expands availability across Gemini, Search, Ads, and Google Cloud, signaling Google’s push to make advanced visual AI more broadly accessible. The release underscores the company’s focus on narrowing the gap between speed and production-ready quality.
Read more here.
Stripe Eyes Potential Deal for PayPal
/Bloomberg Television
Stripe is reportedly exploring a potential acquisition of all or parts of PayPal, a move that would mark a major shift in the digital payments landscape. The interest comes as PayPal’s market value has dropped sharply, making it a more plausible takeover target. Analysts say the talks reflect intensifying competition in fintech and a regulatory climate that may be more open to large tech deals. If pursued, the move could reshape how major payment platforms compete and consolidate.
Check it out here.
SOME AI TOOLS TO TRY OUT:
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