The retail industry is quietly going through one of its biggest changes in decades. Not because of new stores or faster delivery, but because of how customers now talk to businesses. For years, retail AI meant chatbots that could answer basic questions and search bars that forced customers to guess
Welcome back to AI Brews. Let’s start with a familiar situation. You want to buy a new coffee maker. Not a fancy one. Just something reliable. You open Amazon to check prices. Then you open YouTube to see a few reviews. Then, Reddit, because people there usually tell the
Welcome back to AI Brews. For the last decade, one piece of advice dominated startup culture: learn to code. If you wanted to build a product, automate a workflow, or even test a business idea, the path was painfully clear. Either spend months learning a programming language, or spend a
Welcome back to AI Brews. Over the last few weeks, we’ve talked a lot about creative power. We showed you how anyone can become a Bedroom Director using tools like Sora and Runway. We explored how professionals are cloning themselves for work using Synthesia. The story so far has
Welcome back to AI Brews. For most of modern history, video creation followed a familiar hierarchy. Big studios made movies. Mid-sized teams made commercials. Individual creators made do with whatever camera they could afford. The distance between an idea and a finished video was filled with logistics—equipment rentals, lighting
Welcome back to AI Brews. Every senior leader eventually runs into the same constraint. Not talent. Not ambition. Just time. A CEO might start the day with a board call, move into a customer meeting, approve budgets, review hiring decisions, and still be expected to record internal updates or onboarding
Happy New Year, AI Brews Family! As we power down the servers on 2025 and reboot for a brand new year, I wanted to take a moment to step away from the latest AI breakthroughs and tech specs to say one thing: Thank you. This year has been an incredible
Welcome back to AI Brews. For the last two years, the AI race has revolved around a single obsession: speed. We wanted instant replies. We complained when ChatGPT took more than a few seconds to respond. We praised models that felt “snappier,” even when they were wrong. Real-time became the
Welcome back to AI Brews. For the last two years, using AI has felt a bit like making a long-distance phone call. You type a prompt into ChatGPT, the little wheel spins, your request travels thousands of miles to a server farm in California, the "brain" there thinks
As we previously explored in our guide on NotebookLM for professional roles, Google’s AI research tool is a powerhouse for organizing workflows. But since then, a massive shift has happened. NotebookLM is no longer just a place to store notes—it has evolved into a personal media engine. Today,
Welcome back to AI Brews. For the last two years, the AI conversation has been dominated by one thing: The Prompt. We’ve been told that to succeed in the future, we need to become "Prompt Engineers"—essentially learning a new way to talk to machines to get
For years, SaaS felt unbeatable. Every problem had a tool. Every workflow had a dashboard. Every company, from startups to banks, slowly turned into a bundle of subscriptions. SaaS didn’t just power businesses — it defined how modern work functioned. And yet, something subtle is happening. SaaS isn’t disappearing.
For the last two years, AI has become very good at talking about work. Ask it how to run a market study, and it gives you a structured plan. Ask it how to design an operations workflow, and it explains the logic beautifully. Ask it how to analyse competitors, and
Money hasn’t stopped moving. Salaries still hit bank accounts on time. Credit cards still swipe. UPI payments still clear in seconds. On the surface, the financial system looks exactly the way it did a few years ago. But underneath that familiar flow, something fundamental has changed. Decisions that were
If you walk into any college hostel at midnight, you’ll still see phones glowing in the dark — but the activity on those screens has changed. Instead of doom-scrolling through Instagram reels or sending half-asleep snaps, many students are deep in conversation with an AI companion. It sounds unusual until
Classrooms today look much the same as they did a decade ago: desks in rows, a chalkboard or whiteboard at the front, a teacher speaking, students scribbling notes. On the surface, nothing has changed. But beneath that familiar exterior, a silent revolution is unfolding. Around the world, students are increasingly
For nearly twenty years, search barely evolved. We typed keywords into a box, hoping Google’s algorithm would decode our intent. The result was always the same: a stack of blue links, an ad or two masquerading as organic results, and an endless maze of SEO-optimised pages that existed more
In February 2025, Humane quietly pulled the plug on its much-hyped flagship, the AI Pin. The start-up sold key assets — including its software platform, patents and team — to HP for US $116 million. What once promised to be a screenless smartphone-killer is now considered by many a cautionary tale in
Back in 2008, the App Store changed everything. Suddenly, people who had never written a line of code were downloading apps that solved everyday problems — and developers who built those apps became overnight millionaires. Today, we’re living through that moment again. But this time, the shift is happening 10
For years, the AI story was simple: bigger models, bigger data centers. Most companies run powerful AI in the cloud and send user data to those servers. Apple is changing that script. With Apple Intelligence, it’s pushing much of the AI work onto your iPhone, iPad, and Mac — keeping
Text-to-video is no longer a distant dream; it has become the most exciting race in artificial intelligence today. Two names are leading this charge: OpenAI’s Sora and Runway. And the real question we’re all trying to answer is simple — who will control the future of video creation? Will
Imagine building a full-fledged web app simply by chatting — no long nights of coding, no plumbing backend servers, no wrestling with deployment. Just you, an idea… and a prompt. That’s exactly the leap the Swedish startup behind Lovable claims to deliver with its latest version: Lovable 2.0. If
If you’ve ever wished your audio files could magically turn into clean transcripts, structured insights, and neatly separated speakers — AssemblyAI is pretty much that magic mirror for sound. From podcasts to meetings to livestreams, it transforms raw audio into actionable intelligence. Unlike basic transcription tools, AssemblyAI doesn’t just
Earlier this year, Microsoft quietly dropped something that could change how we create visuals forever — MAI Image 1, its first in-house AI image-generation model. If you’ve used Copilot to generate images before, you were actually relying on OpenAI’s DALL-E behind the scenes. That meant Microsoft was pushing the