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Last episode we covered releases 0.64.0
through 0.68.1: slide deck generation,

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Bot colored chats, and drafting outgoing
email through your personal Gmail and

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Outlook accounts.

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Today is the next step.

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Grok Bot 0.70.2 hit the official changelog
on October 11, and it rolls up 0.69.0,

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0.69.1, 0.70.0, and 0.70.1 too.

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Quick note first: this show is brought to
you by Jellypod AI.

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Here's the headline.

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Last time, your bot borrowed your inbox.

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Now it can have its own.

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The official notes say bots can claim
their own email address and receive mail

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there, and email they send from it waits
for your approval on a draft card.

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That's the whole point.

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A bot can get mail without ever touching
your personal credentials,

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and nothing goes out until you tap
approve.

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Now, a detail that matters.

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Eric Zakariasson posted about the rollout
on X on October 13,

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with the addresses at mail.grokbot.com.

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Then he followed up to correct the
impression people had: it's one email address per

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account, for now, shared by all your bots.

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So don't plan on a separate inbox for
every bot yet.

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My take, and this is interpretation, not
from the notes: a shared address is still a

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clean place to point vendor emails or
notifications, so you can read what arrives

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and decide what happens next.

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And one commenter on that thread, Hyrum,
wrote that a tool called Dot once emailed

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his team without asking, and that drafts
you can review are a much better default.

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That's exactly the design here.

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Second big one.

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Bots can search X and read posts and
profiles without you connecting an X account.

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In the last episode's world, a bot that
wanted to look at X needed your login.

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Now it doesn't.

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If you've been holding off on research
tasks because you didn't want to link your

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account, that barrier's gone.

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Try asking a bot to read a public profile
and summarize what that account has been

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posting.

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Third, apps in the chat.

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Connectors that come with an app, such as
Figma, Notion, and Canva,

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can show it as an interactive card right
in the conversation.

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So instead of a bot telling you it updated
something, you see the app itself,

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in the thread.

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A few more additions worth knowing.

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Bots can pay with X Money or Stripe Link.

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Bots can find a Bot template that fits
what you describe and link it in the chat.

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Adding Glean asks for your Glean MCP URL,
then connects after you sign in to Glean

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in your browser.

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QuickBooks Online is available to connect.

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Bots can save a web page as a PDF from
their browser, and send audio files such as

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MP3, M4A, and WAV.

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And some interface polish.

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Press Cmd+F or Ctrl+F on an open page to
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You can rename a page from its title, and
the new name shows everywhere.

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Shared pages now have a title bar with
Download, which saves a PDF,

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plus Try Grok Bot for visitors and Share
for the owner.

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The full screen video player has a speed
menu, and voice calls offer 0.5x speed.

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On Mac, View Unread in the View menu shows
only Bots with unread messages.

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Now the part I'd pay the most attention
to, because bots can now email,

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pay, and post.

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The notes say that before an action it
can't undo, such as sending,

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posting, buying, or deleting, a Bot checks
your own messages for approval.

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So it looks back at what you actually
said.

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Also, after a bank or brokerage connector
returns data, the Bot asks before sharing

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it anywhere else.

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If you connect financial accounts, that's
the guardrail you want.

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And Bots now acknowledge your message
before they start longer work,

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so you know it heard you.

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Computer controls changed too.

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The full screen computer view opens in
Watching until you press Take control,

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so you won't accidentally type into your
bot's session.

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When a Bot's computer is asleep, the
Computer tab shows a Wake button that wakes it

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in place.

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Settings now separate Your computer from
the Bot's computer.

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And switching chats or focusing the window
no longer wakes a sleeping computer.

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On reliability, there's a lot.

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Connector calls fail less often: Bots fix
wrongly shaped arguments and accept Notion

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links and Slack channel names before
sending.

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When a connector rate limits your account,
Bots wait for the retry delay instead of

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calling it in a loop.

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Slack, Gmail, and Outlook drafts retry
through temporary rate limits and tell you if

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they still couldn't send.

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Gmail drafts use your default send as
address and add your own signature,

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not one quoted from someone else.

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If the window keeps crashing, Grok Bot
offers to reload it or quit.

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And when a model isn't available in your
region, the turn stops and explains why,

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and Bots fall back to Grok.

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One honest caution.

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Around this rollout, a user on the Cursor
forum reported that on macOS,

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with 0.70.2, every message failed with Bot
failed to respond,

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and creating a new bot failed too, even
though the computer preview still opened.

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That user had already tried Update and
Reset, and the issue persisted.

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When I looked at that thread, there was an
incident banner saying they were

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investigating a service degradation
affecting Grok Bot and preventing some users

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from reaching their computers.

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So if you hit that error, check the status
first.

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Resetting didn't fix it for that reporter,
so I wouldn't treat it as a first move.

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How to use all this.

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Claim your bot's email address and let it
receive mail, then read its draft cards

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before anything goes out.

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Point a bot at X for research with no
account linked.

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And if you connect money tools, lean on
those new approval checks.

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That's 0.70.2.

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Brought to you by Jellypod AI.

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See you next time.