Bombos teamBy Piet Baudoin · 23 October 2026
Language and passwords are fading into the background, and what is left is your taste. Three stories from this week that show where the work is moving.
Can I speak Dutch with a client abroad?
Yes. Google announced yesterday that spoken translation in Meet now covers 63 languages, including Dutch. You speak Dutch, your client picks their own listening language and hears the translation. Meet detects which language someone speaks on its own, even when they switch halfway through.
The rollout started yesterday; organizations on the later update schedule follow on November 2. It works on Business Standard and Plus, among others, for 90 minutes per meeting, and you turn it on yourself during the call.
What it means for you: a call with a supplier abroad no longer depends on who in the office speaks the best English. Your best specialist leads it, in their own words.
Source: Google Workspace, October 22, 2026
Should I give my AI assistant my password?
No, and soon you won’t have to. 1Password launched 1Password for Agents yesterday. You give permission, 1Password fills in the login, and the assistant never sees the password. “Your agent only sees that access is granted.”
It starts with personal plans on 1Password.com, with Muse and Grok Bot as the first assistants; Claude Duet and ChatGPT Work follow.
What it means for you: no more pasting passwords into a chat. The question becomes which task you give your assistant in that account. Also read which processes to automate first.
Source: 1Password, John Torrey, October 22, 2026
Why does our AI text sound so interchangeable?
Because making is not choosing. Jo Wallace, global executive creative director at Jellyfish, puts it bluntly in Marketing Week: “Generation is not direction.” Anyone can now generate endlessly. What makes the difference is who knows what good looks like. Her conclusion: “Not prompting. Not speed. Taste.”
The best AI work, she writes, comes from people who already knew what good looked like before the tools existed. AI did not give them taste, only more possibilities for it. “The only limit is your taste.”
What it means for you: the client email AI writes in ten seconds is only good once someone with taste picks it. That person is your gold mine. Give them time to choose instead of type.
Source: Marketing Week, Jo Wallace, October 22, 2026
Where are we heading?
I think that in a few years we will stream live translation and talk to the whole world as if it were our next-door neighbor. Cultures move closer together. You will never fill in or remember a password yourself again: it all happens behind the scenes. And you will have one flexible screen that takes whatever shape the data stream of the moment needs, instead of ten separate programs.
With that, AI moves human thinking and doing to a very different place. No more typing, logging in and translating, but imagining what should happen. AI is a tool and a lever for your imagination.
What does this mean for your business?
AI takes over the preparation, so your team spends its time on the conversation and the choice. At Bombos that starts, for example, with the shared inbox. Bombos reads the client’s question, gathers the details and drafts a reply. You choose and send. Our promise: at the end of your workday, no client question is left waiting because nobody picked it up. That task is the beginning; after that your team teaches Bombos the next one.
Sources
Every source was opened on October 23, 2026 and every quote appears in it word for word.
Google Workspace, speech translation expansion (October 22, 2026) · Google Meet Help, Speech Translation (undated) · 1Password, Introducing 1Password for Agents (October 22, 2026) · 1Password for Agents, product page (undated) · Marketing Week, Taste will be what helps you win in the AI economy (October 22, 2026)