{
  "id": 10990618,
  "title": "Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/show-colleagues-how-much-you-care-by-sending-an-ai-avatar-to-your-10990618",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-30T16:03:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Register Software",
    "slug": "the-register-software",
    "url": "https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/30/show-colleagues-how-much-you-care-by-sending-an-ai-avatar-to-your-google-meet-call/5300205"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A new AI assistant called MeetTwins is being developed to attend Google Meet calls on behalf of busy professionals, potentially saving time for both the user and their colleagues. Created by Indian developer Aditya Shinde, MeetTwins relies on AI models from Sarvam and features a digital twin avatar designed to relay approved information during meetings. The tool aims to assist users in situations such as status update meetings, students juggling work and classes, and sales teams handling routine client check-ins. To set up a MeetTwins call, users must provide the AI with questions to answer, required documents, and any context it needs. Shinde stressed that MeetTwins is designed to only answer approved questions and will not make up information or take on final decisions beyond its scope. In the event of uncomfortable topics or an upset human colleague, users can simply type \"/stop\" in the chat to end the AI's participation. MeetTwins advises labeling the bot as AI and announcing its presence at the beginning of the call to build trust. While the tool's potential benefits are clear, its implications for establishing genuine relationships with colleagues remain uncertain.",
  "summary": "MeetTwins is still in development, but it's a genius idea if the goal is to prove more time-wasting calls should just be emails",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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      {
        "outlet": "The Register Science",
        "title": "Show colleagues how much you care by sending an AI avatar to your Google Meet call",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/show-colleagues-how-much-you-care-by-sending-an-ai-avatar-to-your",
        "published": "2026-09-30T16:03:07.000Z"
      }
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}