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Grammarly Adds Superhuman Email App to Expand Its AI Platform. Here’s What That Could Mean for You

The grammar enforcer’s latest purchase suggests it intends to do more than fix your awkward phrases.

Show of hands: Who’d like to spend less time going through their email? That could be in the offing from Grammarly, which announced it’s expanding its suite of workplace tools with the purchase of Superhuman, an email efficiency tool.

Grammarly, the company behind the popular grammar enforcement app of the same name, has acquired the AI-powered Superhuman app as part of its push to build out its business productivity offerings, the company said in a press release today.

«Email is the main communication tool for billions of people worldwide and the number-one use case for Grammarly customers,» Rahul Vohra, CEO of Superhuman, said in a statement. «By joining forces with Grammarly, we will invest even more in the core Superhuman experience, as well as create a new way of working where AI agents collaborate across the communication tools that we all use every day.»

The news follows the grammarian’s 2024 purchase of Coda, a productivity platform that offers a suite of products including document software and spreadsheets. Both acquisitions point to Grammarly’s potential desire to break free of its grammatical roots and compete on a bigger stage with tech titans Google and Microsoft, which have launched their own AI tools (Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot) that operate across all their software products.

Started in 2009, Grammarly is a Ukraine-founded cloud-based typing assistant. It uses AI to help correct basic writing errors, detects plagiarism and suggest edits for your writing across multiple platforms. It even assesses the tone of your writing, although Grammarly, the product, has told me many times that my writing is too sarcastic. Thanks for that brilliant insight, Grammarly. Oh wait, I see what you mean there.

Superhuman‘s website boasts that its email productivity app can help you save four hours every week on email by organizing your inbox and drafting email messages.

Here’s what you need to know about Grammarly’s expansion.

Could Grammarly replace Google Suite?

Grammarly’s recent purchases raise a larger question about the grammar app. Reuters reports that the company is working on a name change that sells it as more than just a writing improvement tool. But could its collection of Coda and Superhuman really make it a viable competitor with the likes of Google Suite?

«My sense is that Grammarly is trying to position itself as the company that sells the next layer on top of workplace software for companies,» said Jon Reed, a CNET senior editor who covers AI.

While versions of generative AI have been criticized for inaccuracies and hallucinations, tech giants continue to invest and expand the use of this technology across all platforms, including chatbots and image generators. To set itself apart from grammar-focused competitors like ProWritingAid and Wordtune, Grammarly may be feeling the heat as it anticipates increased AI adoption.

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Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Nov. 24, #1619

Today’s Wordle is tricky. Here are hints, answers and help for Nov. 24, #1619.

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today’s Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles.

Today’s Wordle puzzle is a little tricky. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.

Today’s Wordle hints

Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.

Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats

Today’s Wordle answer has no repeated letters.

Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels

Today’s Wordle answer has two vowels.

Wordle hint No. 3: First letter

Today’s Wordle answer begins with D.

Wordle hint No. 4: Last letter

Today’s Wordle answer ends with H.

Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning

Today’s Wordle answer is a flour-based mixture used to bake bread.

TODAY’S WORDLE ANSWER

Today’s Wordle answer is DOUGH.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Yesterday’s Wordle answer, Nov. 23, No. 1618 was BUNNY.

Recent Wordle answers

Nov. 19, No. 1614: MAKER

Nov. 20, No. 1615: GRAVE

Nov. 21, No. 1616: VOWEL

Nov. 22, No. 1617: THICK

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Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Nov. 24, #631

Today’s Strands puzzle has fun theme, or so says a former farm girl. Here are hints, answers and help for Nov. 24, #631.

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles.

Today’s NYT Strands puzzle has a fun theme, or so says this former farm girl. Some of the answers are difficult to unscramble, so if you need hints and answers, read on.

I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.

If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.

Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1: These Are the 5 Toughest Puzzles So Far

Hint for today’s Strands puzzle

Today’s Strands theme is: Horsing around.

If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Giddy up!

Clue words to unlock in-game hints

Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:

GALE, REGAL, GAIN, ROOM, MOOR, JOCK, WARN, NEAT, WART, FIRE, QUIET, QUITE

Answers for today’s Strands puzzle

These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers:

GROOM, JOCKEY, FARRIER, VETERINARIAN, WRANGLER

Today’s Strands spangram

Today’s Strands spangram is EQUESTRIAN. To find it, start with the E that’s four letters down on the far-left row, and wind up and over.

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Before You Order a $20K Home Robot, There’s Something You Should See

It’s designed to do your chores — with some help from folks behind the curtain.

The robot stands 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighs about as much as a golden retriever and is nearly the price of a brand-new budget car.

This is Neo, the humanoid robot. It’s billed as a personal assistant you can talk to and eventually rely on to handle everyday tasks, including loading your dishwasher and folding your laundry.

Neo doesn’t come cheap: it’ll cost you $20,000. And even then, you’ll still have to train this new home bot, and possibly need a remote assist as well.

If that still sounds enticing, preorders are now open (for $200 down). You’ll be signing up as an early adopter for what Neo’s maker, a California-based company called 1X, is calling a «consumer-ready humanoid.» That’s opposed to other humanoids under development from the likes of Tesla and Figure, which are, for the moment at least, more focused on factory environments.

Neo is a whole order of magnitude different from robot vacuums like those from Roomba, Eufy and Ecovacs, and embodies a long-running sci-fi fantasy of robot maids and butlers doing chores and picking up after us. If this is the future, read on for more of what’s in store.

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What the Neo robot can do around the house

The pitch from 1X is that Neo can do all manner of household chores: fold laundry, run a vacuum, tidy shelves and bring in the groceries. It can open doors, climb stairs and even act as a home entertainment system.

Neo appears to move smoothly, with a soft, almost human-like gait, thanks to 1X’s tendon-driven motor system that gives it gentle motion and impressive strength. The company says it can lift up to 154 pounds and carry 55 pounds, but it is quieter than a refrigerator. It’s covered in soft materials and neutral colors, making it look less intimidating than metallic prototypes from other companies.

The company says Neo has a 4-hour runtime. Its hands are IP68-rated, meaning they’re submersible in water. It can connect via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 5G. For conversation, it has a built-in large language model (LLM), the same sort of AI technology that powers ChatGPT and Gemini.

The primary way to control the Neo robot will be by speaking to it, just as if it were a person.

Still, Neo’s usefulness today depends heavily on how you define useful. The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern got an up-close look at Neo at 1X’s headquarters and found that, at least for now, it’s largely teleoperated, meaning a human often operates it remotely using a virtual-reality headset and controllers.

«I didn’t see Neo do anything autonomously, although the company did share a video of Neo opening a door on its own,» Stern wrote last week. 1X CEO Bernt Børnich reportedly told her that Neo will do most things autonomously in 2026, though he also acknowledged that the quality «may lag at first.»

The company’s FAQ says that if there’s a chore request Neo doesn’t know how to accomplish, you can schedule an expert from 1X to help the robot «learn while getting the job done.»

What you need to know about Neo and privacy

Part of what early adopters are signing up for is to allow Neo to learn from their environment, so that future versions can operate more independently.

That learning process raises questions about privacy and trust. The robot uses a mix of visual, audio and contextual intelligence — meaning it can see, hear and remember interactions with you in your home.

«If you buy this product, it is because you’re OK with that social contract,» Børnich told the Journal. «It’s less about Neo instantly doing your chores and more about you helping Neo learn to do them safely and effectively.»

Neo’s reliance on human operation behind the scenes prompted a response from John Carmack, a computer industry luminary known for his work with VR systems and the lead programmer of classic video games, including Doom and Quake.

«Companies selling the dream of autonomous household humanoid robots today would be better off embracing reality and selling ‘remote operated household help’,» he wrote in a post on the X social network.

1X says it’s taking steps to protect your privacy: Neo listens only when it recognizes it’s being addressed, and its cameras will blur out humans. You can restrict Neo from entering or viewing specific areas of your home, and the robot will never be teleoperated without owner approval, the company says.

But inviting an AI-equipped humanoid to observe your home life isn’t a small step.

The first units are expected to ship to customers in the US in 2026. There is a $499 monthly subscription alternative to the $20,000 full purchase price, although it will be available at an unspecified later date. A broader international rollout is promised for 2027.

Neo’s got a long road ahead of it to live up to the expectations set by Rosie the Robot in The Jetsons way back when. But this is no Hanna-Barbera cartoon. What we’re seeing now is a much more tangible harbinger of change.