Speaker 1: Welcome to AI assembled the top AI news for small business.
Speaker 1: I'm Chris daily and each week I bring you the
Speaker 1: most important AI developments that can transform your business. Let's
Speaker 1: dive into this week's top stories.
Speaker 2: Chat GPT just moved into your spreadsheets. On May seven,
Speaker 2: OpenAI officially launched chat GPT for Excel and Google Sheets
Speaker 2: out of beta and made it available worldwide to all users,
Speaker 2: including business and enterprise. It installs as a sidebar ad
Speaker 2: in that can build complete workbooks from a text prompt
Speaker 2: AD and edit formulas, analyze data across multiple tabs, and
Speaker 2: update sheets in real time. For SMBs, this means you
Speaker 2: can ask chat GPT to build a full budget tracker,
Speaker 2: sales pipeline, or inventory sheet without learning advanced formulas or
Speaker 2: hiring a spreadsheet consultant. Install it from the Microsoft three
Speaker 2: sixty five ad in store or Google Works based marketplace.
Speaker 2: Details at chatgpt, dot Com, Slash apps, Slash Spreadsheets. OpenAI
Speaker 2: also launched three new real time voice models on May
Speaker 2: seven in their developer api. GPT real Time two is
Speaker 2: built for live voice conversations that keep flowing naturally. GPT
Speaker 2: real Time Translate handles speech translation across seventy plus languages
Speaker 2: in real time and GPT real time Whisper delivers high
Speaker 2: accuracy live transcription for SMBs. This is the foundation layer
Speaker 2: for voice first customer service, multilingual sales calls, real time
Speaker 2: meeting transcription, and voice driven internal workflows. The real time
Speaker 2: API is now production ready, which means SMB software vendors
Speaker 2: will start shipping voice features in their tools within weeks.
Speaker 2: Coverage at OpenAI, dot Com and Reuters. Anthropic held its
Speaker 2: first Code with Claude Developer conference on May sixth in
Speaker 2: San Francisco, with follow up events in London on May
Speaker 2: nineteenth and Tokyo on June tenth. The Big News Anthropic
Speaker 2: launched three new features for Claude managed agents. Multiagent orchestration
Speaker 2: lets you run fleets of agents to solve complex tasks together,
Speaker 2: routines let you schedule recurring AI workflows, and new memory
Speaker 2: systems make agents smarter over time. They also raised claud
Speaker 2: code usage limits and announced a major SpaceX partnership. The
Speaker 2: SMB takeaway outcome based agents that you set up once
Speaker 2: and let run are now production ready. Live blog at
Speaker 2: Simon Willison's site. Smart glasses are getting a major AI upgrade.
Speaker 2: Meta rolled out firmware version twenty two to RayBan Meta
Speaker 2: and Oakleigh Meta glasses, adding live AI mode where the
Speaker 2: camera and microphone stay active so Meta AI can continuously
Speaker 2: see and hear what you do. New Conversation Focus uses
Speaker 2: AI to filter out background noise in loud rooms. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: Google confirmed its launching its first AI smart glasses in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, with audio only models running Gemini and
Speaker 2: display models built on Android XR Google Io. On May twentieth,
Speaker 2: is expected to reveal three new smart glasses devices for
Speaker 2: SMBs in field service, retail, construction, and healthcare. Hands free
Speaker 2: AI assistance is about to go mainstream coverage at Meta
Speaker 2: and CNBC. The Open Ai and Microsoft partnership got a
Speaker 2: major rewrite on April twenty seven. The two companies ended
Speaker 2: excluded ucivity, killing the famous AGI clause and freeing OpenAI
Speaker 2: to use Amazon, Google and other cloud providers. Microsoft will
Speaker 2: continue licensing open AI's technology through twenty thirty two and
Speaker 2: keeps a revenue share. Why this matters for SMBs, More
Speaker 2: competition between cloud providers means lower AI inference prices, broader availability,
Speaker 2: and less vendor lock in. If your business runs on
Speaker 2: Azure today, you can now expect OpenAI parity on AWS
Speaker 2: and Google Cloud two coverage at The Verge and CNBC
Speaker 2: its National Small Business Week, and the Small Business Administration
Speaker 2: ran a full virtual summit May fifth through May eighth
Speaker 2: focused on AI for small business cybersecurity, and emergency prep.
Speaker 2: Fresh data dropped. Eighty two percent of small business employers
Speaker 2: have now adopted at least one AI tool, sixty six
Speaker 2: percent report revenue increases linked to AI, and twenty two
Speaker 2: percent saw gains over ten percent. Business owners save five
Speaker 2: plus hours per week and employees save eleven and a
Speaker 2: half hours per week. The lesson AI is no longer
Speaker 2: optional for competitive SMBs. SBA recordings are available at SBA
Speaker 2: dot gov. Zoom launched the Solopreneur fifty program on May fourth,
Speaker 2: a recognition and grant initiative spotlighting AI powered businesses of one.
Speaker 2: They also released a major AI work study showing solopreneurs
Speaker 2: and microbusinesses are the fastest growing AI adoption segment. The
Speaker 2: signal single operator businesses can now compete with mid sized
Speaker 2: firms using AI for sales, marketing support, and back office work.
Speaker 2: If you run a one person shop, this is your
Speaker 2: year to scale Without hiring details at zoom dot Us.
Speaker 2: Upwork rolled out major Spring twenty twenty six platform updates
Speaker 2: on May fifth, adding AI powered matching, project scoping, and
Speaker 2: automated proposal tools designed for small businesses hiring contractors. The
Speaker 2: new tools cut the time from posting a job to
Speaker 2: hiring a qualified freelancer by more than half. For SMBs
Speaker 2: that rely on contractors for marketing, design, development or admin work.
Speaker 2: Upwork is now an AI assisted talent platform, not just
Speaker 2: a freelance marketplace announcement at Investors Dot upwork dot com.
Speaker 2: Nvidia continues to expand its free NIMAPI at build dot
Speaker 2: Nvidia dot Com, now offering more than seventy production ready
Speaker 2: AI models with no GPU purchase required. Sign in with
Speaker 2: a free Invidia account, grab an API key, and call
Speaker 2: models from Lama, Mistrel, Deepseek, Microsoft, and Nvidia using the
Speaker 2: open AI compatible Python SDK. For SMBs, this remains one
Speaker 2: of the lowest cost ways to prototype CUSTOMAI features before
Speaker 2: paying for production infrastructure details at build dot Nvidia dot Com.
Speaker 2: Slash models a critical risk reminder from Deloyd's twenty twenty
Speaker 2: six State of AI report, AGENTICAI is scaling faster than
Speaker 2: Guardrails seventy four percent of companies plan to deploy AGENTICAI
Speaker 2: within two years, but only twenty one percent have a
Speaker 2: mature governance model for autonomous agents. The SMB lesson here
Speaker 2: is direct. Define what your AI agents can and cannot
Speaker 2: do in writing before you deploy them. Cover scope, data, access,
Speaker 2: escalation rules, and human approval thresholds. Especially important now that
Speaker 2: multiagent orchestration is broadly available. Report at deloitt dot com
Speaker 2: your thirty day action plan. First installed chat GPT for
Speaker 2: Excel or Google Sheets and use it to rebuild one
Speaker 2: workbook you currently maintain by hand. Second, try the open
Speaker 2: ai Real Time API or a vendor product built on
Speaker 2: it to evaluate voice automation for your customer service. Third,
Speaker 2: pilot one scheduled, clawed routine or managed agent for a
Speaker 2: recurring task like weekly reporting. Fourth, if you have fueld
Speaker 2: facing staff, evaluate ray Band Meta or upcoming Google Glasses
Speaker 2: for hands free workflows. Fifth, write a one page agent
Speaker 2: governance policy before deploying multi agent systems. That's your weekly brief.
Speaker 2: Ten stories, five actions, thirty days.
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