DOWN TO BUSINESS

🛒 Amazon tests AI shopping agent

Amazon is testing "Buy for Me," an AI shopping agent that can purchase products from other websites without users leaving the Amazon app. The feature uses stored payment details to complete purchases on third-party sites when Amazon doesn't sell the requested item.

📝 Conveyor Launches Phil, an AI Agent for RFPs

Conveyor has introduced an AI agent that automates the business proposal process. Phil can generate 95% accurate answers to RFPs, maintain source materials, conduct research, organize projects, and collaborate with multiple teams—all autonomously.

🔎 Actively AI Creates Customer Research Platform

Actively AI has developed a platform that researches, understands, and reasons about potential customers to maximize revenue quality and pipeline growth. The solution uses AI to analyze customer behavior and preferences, enabling businesses to create more targeted outreach strategies and improve conversion rates in increasingly competitive markets.

🛡️ Cloudflare Launches AI Labyrinth for Bot Management

Cloudflare has introduced an innovative bot-management tool that serves fake pages to unwanted bots. This enhancement strengthens web publishers' ability to enforce do-not-crawl requests, providing a practical solution to the growing challenge of unwanted AI scraping and protecting digital content from unauthorized use.

🚗 Nissan to integrate Wayve AI technology by 2027

Wayve, an eight-year-old autonomous driving software company, has announced that its self-driving technology will be integrated into Nissan's ProPilot assisted driving feature starting in April 2027. Wayve's mapless approach to autonomous driving enables vehicles to adapt to environments they haven't seen before, potentially accelerating the mainstream adoption of self-driving capabilities.

TRENDING TOPIC

📉 AI model gap tightens

The top AI models are now neck and neck. In early 2025, the performance gap between the #1 and #10 models dropped to just 5%—less than half of what it was a year ago. Smaller, more efficient models are also catching up fast, rivaling the capabilities of much larger systems from just two years ago.

HOT MODELS

🗣️ Amazon’s Nova Sonic simplifies voice AI

Amazon just dropped Nova Sonic—a unified model that handles both speech recognition and generation, cutting the complexity of building natural voice interfaces. It captures tone and pace,  and handles real-time dialog.

🧠 OpenAI debuts GPT-4.1

OpenAI just rolled out a major upgrade to its flagship model. It’s better at following instructions, writing code, and holding longer, more useful conversations. Lighter versions—Mini and Nano—make the tech faster, cheaper, and easier to integrate across products.

🦙 Meta Releases Llama 4 Model Family

Meta has released Llama 4 Scout and Maverick—its most advanced open models yet. They’re fast, multimodal, built for real-world use, and can keep track of more information from conversations or documents at once.

MAKING GAINS

🚛 Self-driving trucks are here

Uber Freight and NVIDIA are leading the charge in autonomous logistics with “Physical AI”—smart systems that move goods across the country with minimal human input. By 2035, half of all U.S. freight miles could be autonomous, cutting fuel costs by up to $6.8 billion annually.

DON’T PANIC

🧩 AI struggles with recursive reasoning

Bill Gates points out that AI systems, while proficient in data-heavy tasks, struggle with problems requiring recursive reasoning, such as solving Sudoku puzzles. He emphasizes that AI doesn't magically solve problems that humans aren't already good at.

AT INVISIBLE

📈 Boosted.ai builds a faster, smarter investment assistant

To scale its portfolio assistant, Boosted.ai swapped a heavy LLM for a streamlined Small Language Model, but needed precise training data to make it work. Invisible delivered expert-labeled, multi-step financial data, unlocking real-time insights, 90% cost savings, and faster product iteration.

PLOT TWIST

⚖️ AI Avatar Appears in Court

In New York, a man representing himself in court used an AI-generated avatar to present his case. The judges, unaware of the substitution, halted the proceedings upon realizing the switch. The incident sparked discussions about the appropriate use of AI in legal settings.