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Today’s AI Menu

▪️ Gemini in Chrome, Mistral updates, Nvidia ban, Web AI breakthroughs & more

▪️ Tutorial: How can I use Riverside for high-quality podcast recording with transcription?

▪️ 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

▪️ AI Special Edition: AI startups power Google Cloud’s $50B surge

▪️ AI Daily Prompt

TODAY IN WORLD OF AI

🚀 Google brings Gemini AI into Chrome + Agentic browsing

Google just turned the world’s most popular browser into an AI powerhouse.

With Gemini now integrated directly into Chrome for U.S. users, browsing is no longer just about clicking links, it’s becoming an interactive conversation. Imagine landing on a complex article and instantly getting a clear, AI-generated summary, or asking your browser to pull up that one report you skimmed weeks ago.

But the real game-changer is agentic browsing. Chrome can now handle multi-step tasks on your behalf whether that’s ordering groceries, booking travel, or juggling research tabs across projects. The catch? It’s all under human oversight, striking a careful balance between automation and control.

Add in AI-powered safety features like detecting scams, blocking spammy pop-ups, and even auto-updating compromised passwords and Chrome isn’t just smarter, it’s safer too.

Why does this matter? Because browsers are the front door to our digital lives. By embedding Gemini directly into Chrome, Google is signaling a future where the browser isn’t just a tool, it’s a co-pilot.

THE AI INSTITUTE

🎤 How can I use Riverside for high-quality podcast recording with transcription❓

▪️ Open Riverside

▪️ Create an account → start a new recording studio.

▪️ Record audio/video in high quality (local files).

▪️ Use built-in AI transcription.

▪️ Edit with automatic text-based tools.

▪️ Download & share.

FOOD FOR PRODUCTIVITY

5 tools for your productivity

🐝 SocialBee: Manage and schedule social media posts with AI captions and visuals.

📄 JobWinner.ai: Create tailored, professional resumes and cover letters with AI assistance.

🎨 Envato Elements: Unlimited stock assets like templates, graphics, music, and videos for creators.

📹 Trupeer.ai: Convert screen recordings into polished product demo videos with AI voiceovers.

📱 Mavic.ai: AI marketer for brands: generate posts, blogs, and visuals with scheduling support.

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EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW

🕵️‍♂️ Trailblazer: Meet WebExplorer, a new framework from HKUST, MiniMax, and Waterloo that trains expert web agents without a single human-labeled example. By generating its own challenging data, the system built WebExplorer-8B, a model that outperforms larger rivals on tough search-and-reasoning tasks. Think of it as teaching an AI to be a self-taught detective, capable of deep research without costly human guidance.

💻 Compact: French AI startup Mistral has rolled out Magistral Small 1.2 and Medium 1.2, and they’re anything but “minor” updates. These models now handle images as well as text, showing strong gains in reasoning benchmarks and the smaller version can even run locally on a MacBook or single GPU. In a world obsessed with massive models, Mistral is proving that smarter and lighter can be just as powerful.

🔍🤝 Revolution: Google is supercharging Chrome with a sweeping set of AI upgrades that turn your browser into more than just a window to the web. The spotlight: Gemini in Chrome, a built-in assistant that can clarify tough content, summarize multiple tabs, fetch old visited pages, and interact more deeply with apps like Calendar, Maps, and YouTube.

🚫 Nvidia ban: China has officially clamped down on Nvidia’s AI chips companies like Alibaba and ByteDance can no longer buy or test certain RTX Pro 6000D models after Beijing’s latest order. This move isn’t just about hardware; it's turning the AI race into a geopolitical showdown.

AI SPECIAL EDITION

💡  AI start-ups fuel Google Cloud’s Meteoric growth

Google Cloud just posted some jaw-dropping numbers and AI startups are at the heart of it.

In 2024, Google Cloud generated $43.2B in revenue. Fast-forward to today, and it’s running at a $50B annual pace with $58B more lined up over the next two years. The secret? Young AI companies like Lovable and Windsurf betting on Google as their primary cloud provider.

In fact, Google Cloud now works with 9 of the top 10 AI labs and 60% of the world’s generative AI startups. That’s massive. Why? Because training and deploying AI models is insanely compute-heavy and expensive, making cloud partnerships not just helpful, but essential.

Google’s strategy is clever: lure early-stage startups with credits and GPU access, then grow with them as they scale. Today’s small coding tool might become tomorrow’s billion-dollar AI unicorn locked into Google’s ecosystem.

But this isn’t just about revenue. It’s about positioning. AWS may still lead, and Microsoft Azure has the OpenAI advantage, but Google is carving out a niche as the go-to home for AI-native startups.

Cloud isn’t just infrastructure anymore, it’s the foundation of the AI economy. Whoever wins startups today could own the enterprise AI market tomorrow.

AI PROMPT OF THE DAY

📚 Must-read books for entrepreneurs in 2025

Prompt: List the top 10 must-read books for entrepreneurs in 2025. Include a mix of new releases and timeless classics covering business strategy, innovation, leadership, mindset, and startup growth. Add a short 1-line summary or key takeaway for each book to explain why it’s valuable.

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Thanks for reading.

Until Sunday!

Shinky & the Hanoomaan AI team