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AI Weekly #3: Enterprise AI Agents Transform Business Operations
This week's AI: deep dives on AI models and surgical innovation, 7 enterprise AI releases from Amazon to Meta, plus guide to free agentic browser technology.
Hi, this week’s AI newsletter (15 - 21 September) includes 4 articles, enterprise AI news, and a tip of the week about agentic browser for you. Hope that you enjoy them. Thank you.
Articles
- Under the Hood of AI Models: A Simple Guide for Non-Technical Readers: In this guide I explain in detail how AI models work under the hood, from basic math functions to neural networks. If you are non-technical and don’t have much knowledge in AI, this is for you.
- Curing Cancer by Using AI to Improve Surgery Accuracy: This is about a startup Method AI using AI and ultrasound imaging to create live 3D maps during surgery, helping surgeons see tumors and nerves hidden inside organs. Hope that you can see the bright side of AI in our life, rather than only bad reports from press.
- Google’s AP2 Lets AI Agents Checkout For You: This new AP2 protocol of Google may change the way we buy things in the future, both for personal and business. Be aware of this so that you can stay ahead of the technology changes.
- WTO AI Trade Report: Jobs, GDP, and Global Impact: This contains interesting information in the newly released WTO’s AI trade report, and my comments about them. It covers infrastructure gaps, labor impacts, and projected economic gains.
Enterprise AI News
Amazon’s AI assistant manages sellers’ business
Amazon upgrades its AI Seller Assistant to actively manage inventory, compliance, and advertising using AI agents powered by Bedrock and Claude. The assistant
- Flags inventory that’s stuck for a long time to save storage fee
- Suggests optimal warehouse allocation based on demand patterns
- Fixes compliance issues automatically
- Creates professional AI ad campaigns
During busy seasons, it can build complete business strategies covering promotions, inventory, and marketing for sellers. If successful, this is a prime example of how AI agents can run routine business operations while humans focus on products and strategy. Amazon.
HSBC launches AI wealth advisor for private banking
HSBC rolls out Wealth Intelligence, an AI platform that helps their internal wealth advisors find information faster. It’s built with RAG under the hood and searches through 10000+ data sources and internal research reports to give advisors quick summaries and market insights. That helps their advisors avoid spending hours digging through reports; they can now get answers in seconds and spend more time with clients. The bank starts in Hong Kong and Singapore, planning to expand globally. This playbook can indeed be applied to any company that has a large amount of internal data. HSBC.
Workday adds AI agents for HR and finance tasks
Workday announces Illuminate agents that handle specific business tasks like performance reviews, financial closes, and workforce planning. These agents analyze data from transactions to find patterns and automate work. Some examples:
- Financial Close Agent speeds up month-end closing
- Performance Agent pulls together review data from different sources
The key lesson seems to be embedding AI directly into existing workflows gets better results than standalone AI tools. Workday.
YouTube gives creators AI video editing tools
YouTube’s Made on YouTube event introduces AI features that make professional video creation easier.
- Veo 3 Fast generates backgrounds and effects for Shorts
- Edit with AI turns raw footage into polished videos
- Ask Studio assistant analyzes your channel performance and suggests what content to make next.
- Likeness detection to help creators find and remove AI-generated copies of their face.
YouTube hopes that these tools can help small creators now produce content that used to require a full production team. YouTube.
Salesforce creates Missionforce for defense and intelligence
Salesforce launches Missionforce, a dedicated unit serving defense, intelligence, and aerospace agencies with AI-powered cloud services. The unit focuses on three areas: personnel management (recruitment through retirement), logistics and supply chains, and data analytics. They’re positioning AI agents as tools that military leaders will manage alongside human personnel. Agencies using their platform cut unemployment processing times and improve disaster response. This shows how enterprise software companies are creating specialized tools for high-security government work, where they combine AI techs with strict compliance requirements. Nextgov.
Adobe turns Acrobat into an AI workspace
Adobe redesigns Acrobat into Acrobat Studio, combining PDF editing with AI assistants and design tools. The new PDF Spaces feature lets users store documents and ask questions about them. AI then pulls out key information with citation from the docs. You can also create presentations and infographics right inside Acrobat using Adobe Express. For businesses working with a lot of PDFs and reports, This may be worth trying out. Adobe.
Meta launches AI glasses with neural wristband
Meta announces Ray-Ban Display glasses paired with a Neural Band that reads muscle signals from your wrist. The glasses show information directly in your glasses while the wristband lets you control them with subtle finger movements. Some functionalities include navigation directions, real-time translation, message notifications, and AI assistance all hands-free. The price is $799, and they are launching in the U.S. this September, expanding to Europe and Canada later. If you are interested in what would be the future human interface, you may want to follow this closely. Meta.
Tip of the week
BrowserOS: Free Agentic Browser
You probably already heard about Perplexity Comet, a browser equipped with AI agents that can do tasks for you. Comet currently requires invitation. You have to join the waitlist or upgrade Perplexity Max ($200/month), which is too much to try new cool things for normal people.
You can experience what an agentic browser is like by trying BrowserOS, an open source alternative of Perplexity Comet, made by the BrowserOS team backed by Y Combinator. You can download BrowserOS on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Totally free. And you can use it right away without any further setup or LLM API keys. The BrowserOS team is nice enough to host an LLM service for users to use for free. If you want to use frontier LLM models of your choice, you can provide your own API key (at your cost), and you can also get some free models on OpenRouter, or even self-host on your PC to ensure privacy.
It can help you automatically do tasks like book appointments and find good plumbers. It can also help you save money, like doing price comparison, finding and applying promo or coupon codes, and canceling unwanted subscriptions. And much more when you need to learn new things, do research, plan travel, etc, up to your imagination.
In the example above, I asked it to find some 1 star Michelin restaurant in London, French cuisine. It will go to the Michelin Guide website, filter location, cuisine, and star, then return the list for you.
You’ll have a weird feeling when using an agentic browser at first, as instead of you clicking, someone else is clicking for you. Kind of like the first time you got out of an Uber ride without giving money to the driver. Just remember, do not use it to do anything important like banking transactions yet.
Now is a very early phase of agentic browsers. We don’t know if they’ll catch on and replace the normal browser or not. Trying this new thing gives you front row experience of the newest applications of this AI boom, what is different, what they can do, and what they can change in our life.
