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✨SUNDAY SPECIAL EDITION

• Featured Story: 🧠 The Shift from Prompts to Processes: AI Tools Are Becoming Workflows

• Feature Story: ⚡ The Rise of Everyday AI: Tools That Are Quietly Transforming Productivity

• Sunday AI Academy - 📊 Get instant business insights from spreadsheets

• This week in AI - 5 Summarised news on AI

FEATURED STORY

🧠 The Shift from Prompts to Processes: AI Tools Are Becoming Workflows

A quiet revolution is happening in AI — we’re moving from prompting models to orchestrating systems. 

Tools like Relevance AI, n8n, Loveable, and Stitch are redefining how professionals use AI: instead of just chatting with a model, users are now building automated workflows that handle research, lead generation, content creation, and even sales.

Think of it as the next evolution of AI — from “assistant” to autonomous co-worker. These platforms let you design multi-step processes where AI agents analyze data, call APIs, summarize findings, and take actions in real time.

The real value here? Scalability. What once took hours of human effort can now run in the background, allowing teams to focus on creativity and strategy.

As 2025 unfolds, this workflow-driven AI movement is setting the foundation for an entirely new class of startups — ones that operate on automation first, human supervision second.

⚡ The Rise of Everyday AI: Tools That Are Quietly Transforming Productivity

AI is no longer a “future tech” — it’s baked into the tools we use daily. Google’s AI-powered Workspace features, Notion AI, ChatGPT with Memory, and Canva’s Magic Studio are turning ordinary tasks into smart, adaptive experiences. 

You can now brainstorm ideas, design visuals, summarize docs, or even generate full presentations in seconds — all within tools you already use.

What’s powerful here is personalization

.The latest wave of tools is learning from your behavior — what you write, create, and plan — to proactively assist you. Imagine your workspace that remembers your tone, knows your goals, and drafts content aligned with your voice.

This democratization of AI means you don’t need coding skills to leverage intelligence anymore. The “AI-first worker” is emerging — not a technical expert, but a creative thinker who knows how to apply smart tools.

SUNDAY AI ACADEMY

📊 Get instant business insights from spreadsheets

Transform your Google Sheets invoice data into a conversational business intelligence system using CData Connect AI and Claude Desktop, with no more manual calculations or complex formulas needed.

Step-by-step:

1. Go to CData Connect AI, sign up for a free account, and navigate to the dashboard to manage data connections

2. Click "Add Connection," select Google Sheets, authenticate with your Google account, and click "Save & Test" to confirm the connection

3. In Claude Desktop, add the CData MCP server using URL https://mcp.cloud.cdata.com/mcp and authenticate with CData credentials

4. Query your data with natural language like "Use CData to analyze the Demo Invoice Data sheet and show me all unpaid invoices with company names and amounts, then calculate total outstanding"

Pro tip: Connect your CRM like HubSpot or Salesforce as an additional data source in CData. This lets you analyze customer payment patterns alongside sales data, support tickets, and other business metrics in a single Claude conversation.

THIS WEEK IN AI

1. Europe Pushes for AI Independence
The European Union has launched its new “Apply AI” strategy aimed at reducing dependence on U.S. and Chinese technologies. The €1 billion initiative focuses on developing homegrown generative AI models for public services, defense, and research. Analysts say this marks Europe’s most serious attempt yet to build sovereign AI infrastructure and close the innovation gap with global giants.

2. Opera Launches Neon – The AI Browser That Acts for You
Opera has unveiled Neon, an AI-powered browser designed to do more than just browse — it can take actions on webpages, automate workflows, and even generate responses using embedded agent tools. With privacy as a core feature, Neon represents a major step toward the emerging “agentic web,” where browsers don’t just show content but help users act on it.

3. Anthropic Introduces Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic released its most advanced AI model yet — Claude Sonnet 4.5 — optimized for autonomous tasks, coding assistance, and real-world agentic workflows. The new version promises better long-term memory, improved context handling, and a stronger safety alignment. Experts believe this update positions Claude as one of the strongest AI competitors in the productivity and coding space.

4. Thinking Machines Lab Launches “Tinker” for Easy AI Training
A new startup founded by ex-OpenAI researchers, Thinking Machines Lab, has launched Tinker — a platform that lets users fine-tune and train AI models without technical complexity. The goal is to make advanced AI customization accessible to small teams and creators, not just large tech companies, further democratizing how people build and deploy AI systems.

5. AI in Agriculture: Instacrops Revolutionizes Farm Efficiency
Chilean agri-tech startup Instacrops is making waves with AI tools that help farmers optimize irrigation and improve crop yields. Early results show up to 30% water savings and 20% higher productivity. By combining real-time weather data, soil sensors, and predictive AI, Instacrops is showing how artificial intelligence can solve tangible, real-world problems beyond the tech industry.

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