📈 How are companies using AI?

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➜ AI That Handles Your Invoices. Digits has launched an AI-powered invoicing tool designed for startups and SMBs, automating the entire process from creation to payment tracking. No more late-night number crunching—businesses can get paid faster with zero manual effort.
CPA Practice Advisor

➜ AI Becomes Your CFO’s Best Friend. Coupa is rolling out agentic AI features that analyze corporate spending in real-time, flagging risks and optimizing cash flow automatically. Finance teams can now focus on strategy instead of spreadsheets.
PYMNTS

➜ Super Bowl Ads, Now AI-Generated. AI took center stage at this year’s Super Bowl, creating, editing, and even scripting multiple commercials. With brands betting big on AI-powered marketing, the next viral ad might not have a human behind it.
Morning Brew

➜ Wayfair Uses AI to Show You the Future. The home decor giant is bringing generative AI imagery into the real world, letting shoppers visualize furniture in their homes before making a purchase. Shopping for a couch? Now you can “see” it in your living room before clicking buy.
Retail Dive

➜ France’s AI Cat—or Just a Clever Name? A new AI chatbot called "Le Chat" is making waves in France, but some are questioning whether it's just marketing gimmickry. Is it a groundbreaking assistant, or is France just leaning into its love of felines?
The Economist

➜ AWS Uses Ancient Philosophy to Fix AI. Amazon is applying age-old logical frameworks to stop AI from hallucinating fake facts. By grounding models in fundamental reasoning, AWS is hoping to make AI more reliable—and a little less delusional.
PYMNTS

💡 What are the nerds up to?

➜ Google’s AI Now Cites Its Sources. Gemini just got a major upgrade—it now includes receipts for its responses, showing where its information comes from. Transparency in AI is finally becoming a reality (or at least, Google wants you to think so).
TechCrunch

➜ Reddit’s AI Search Is Coming. The platform is testing AI-powered search to surface better discussions, making it easier to find expert-level advice (or just the best memes). Whether users will actually trust AI to find the good stuff is another question.
Daily.dev

➜ The Open-Source ChatGPT Alternative? A new AI chatbot aims to be the best open-source competitor to ChatGPT, offering customizable UI, model integrations, and full deployment control. The AI wars just got more interesting.
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➜ AI Outperforms Engineers at GPU Optimization? NVIDIA engineers used DeepSeek-R1, an open-source AI model, to automatically generate GPU attention kernels. The AI-generated kernels weren’t just functional—they outperformed those optimized by skilled engineers in some cases.
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