Category: AI & Automation


  • Zoho Launches Notebook AI Across Multiple Platforms

    Zoho Corporation has announced the release of Notebook AI, an AI-powered note-taking assistant now available on iOS, Android, web browsers, and macOS. Users can activate a 15-day trial to explore the app’s features before purchasing, with pricing set at $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year for individual consumers. The company also plans to roll…

  • Google launches free Gemini-powered Data Science Agent on its Colab Python platform

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI agents are all the rage, but how about one focused specifically on analyzing, sorting and drawing conclusions from vast volumes of data? Google’s data science agent does just that: The new, free Gemini 2.0-powered AI…

  • Less is more: How ‘chain of draft’ could cut AI costs by 90% while improving performance

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A team of researchers at Zoom Communications has developed a breakthrough technique that could dramatically reduce the cost and computational resources needed for AI systems to tackle complex reasoning problems, potentially transforming how enterprises deploy AI…

  • Hugging Face launches FastRTC to simplify real-time AI voice and video apps

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Hugging Face, the AI startup valued at over $4 billion, has introduced FastRTC, an open-source Python library that removes a major obstacle for developers when building real-time audio and video AI applications. “Building real-time WebRTC and…

  • 2025 has already brought us the most performant AI ever: What can we do with these supercharged capabilities (and what’s next)?

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The latest AI large language model (LLM) releases, such as Claude 3.7 from Anthropic and Grok 3 from xAI, are often performing at PhD levels — at least according to certain benchmarks. This accomplishment marks the…

  • Micron launches new memory chips to keep up with AI processing

    Micron announced its first 1y (1-gamma) DDR5 memory chip samples this week, and it says this is part of its contribution to systems that keep up with AI processing. The company said being the first to market with 1y samples proves Micron’s continued technology and manufacturing leadership — and the Boise, Idaho-based company is extending…

  • A New ChatGPT, the Death of Skype … and More

    The Small Biz Breakdown crew is back this week with more fascinating discussions on some of the hottest topics in small business. Our panel talks about the latest model release from OpenAI, ChatGPT-4.5, and they’re always open to talking about how AI is taking over more aspects of our lives. The crew also talks about…

  • Nvidia CEO: Someday we’ll have 1B robotic cars on the road

    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicted that someday we’ll have a billion cars on the road and they will all be robotic cars. It sounds like science fiction, but as Huang has said before, “I am science fiction.” He made the comments in a conference call with analysts about Nvidia’s FYQ4 earnings ending January 26, 2025.…

  • Rebuilding Alexa: How Amazon is mixing models, agents and browser-use for smarter AI

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Amazon is betting on agent interoperability and model mixing to make its new Alexa voice assistant more effective, retooling its flagship voice assistant with agentic capabilities and browser-use tasks. This new Alexa has been rebranded to…

  • Microsoft’s new Phi-4 AI models pack big performance in small packages

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft has introduced a new class of highly efficient AI models that process text, images and speech simultaneously while requiring significantly less computing power than other available systems. The new Phi–4 models, released today, represent a…