DOWN TO BUSINESS

🤖 Amazon Q Business in Action

‍AWS is showing how its AI assistant, Amazon Q Business, is driving real impact. At a recent event, enterprise clients like Zoom and HS Brands shared how they’re using Q to automate workflows, speed up decision-making, and cut costs. HS Brands expects to save 85% on proofreading alone while boosting accuracy.

📺 BBC Implements AI for Handling Viewer Complaints

The BBC has entered into a £40 million agreement with outsourcing firm Serco to enhance its audience services using AI. Starting next year, AI will be used to generate bulk responses to similar audience complaints. Human agents will continue to address specific concerns directly.

🛠️ DXC Launches AI Workbench to Power Enterprise-Scale AI

‍DXC Technology has launched AI Workbench, a new gen-AI platform for enterprises. Ferrovial, the global infrastructure company, is implementing the technology, with 30+ AI agents making real-time decisions, and integrations with systems like Workday, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Teams.

📱 Visa and Mastercard Launch Tools for AI Shopping Agents

Both Visa and Mastercard have announced new tools to facilitate purchases made by AI agents. Visa's "Intelligent Commerce" uses AI-ready cards with tokenized credentials to let AI agents find and buy items without exposing card data, while Mastercard's "Agent Pay" enables payments within AI conversations.

TRENDING TOPIC

💻 Over 30% of Google’s New Code Now Written by AI

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says more than 30% of new code at Google is now AI-generated, up from 25% in November last year. AI is now powering deeper coding workflows and is embedded across Google’s operations, from customer support to finance. All 15 of Google’s billion-user products now run on Gemini models.

HOT MODELS

🦜 Nvidia’s Parakeet V2 Transcribes an Hour in a Second

Nvidia’s new open-source speech recognition model can transcribe an hour of audio in one second with near-perfect accuracy. It’s built for real-world deployment with features like punctuation, timestamps, and song lyric transcription.

🚀 Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Pro

Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro demonstrates enhanced reasoning and performance in areas like math, creative writing, and answering long-winded queries. It’s particularly useful for web development and converting video content into interactive learning applications.

🎨 Freepik Releases F Lite, Copyright-Safe AI Image Generator

Freepik’s new AI image generator is trained exclusively on licensed, safe-for-work content. The model offers developers a legally safer alternative to models trained on uncredited web images. Following Adobe and Getty's similar offerings, F Lite addresses growing legal concerns about AI training data, potentially shifting market demand toward models with clearer IP provenance.

MAKING GAINS

🧱 AI Builds Real-World LEGO Creations from Text Descriptions

Researchers have developed an AI model that generates buildable LEGO structures from text prompts. Trained on a dataset of over 47,000 stable LEGO designs, the model ensures physical stability by simulating gravity and structural forces, bridging the gap between digital design and real-world construction.

DON’T PANIC

🧪 OpenAI’s PaperBench: Science Still Needs Scientists

‍OpenAI released PaperBench to test whether AI can replicate real research. Top agents scored just 21% accuracy, showing large gaps in comprehension, methodology, and reproducibility. Despite recent progress, frontier models still fall short of replacing research engineers anytime soon.

PLOT TWIST

🚁 Flying Taxis Could Hit China’s Cities by 2027

‍Chinese company Ehang just got the green light to launch pilotless, human-carrying flying taxis, marking a first in global aviation. Tourist flights start this year in Guangzhou and Hefei, with full air taxi services expected in more cities over the next 3-5 years. The certified two-seater drones fly at up to 130 km/h.

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