Digest AI AI at Work

Simple AI tips for small businesses. Each one takes minutes to read.

Playbook · week 2026-W45

What to do about AI this week

1 tip, 2 Nov to 8 November 2026: what to try now, and what can wait.

What to try

most useful first

No waitlist and no developer needed. Where a country or a plan is left out, the card says so.

01 Zoho Analytics by Zoho 2 Nov

Ask questions with Zoho Analytics

Cost Price not stated Price checked 28 Oct
Time A few minutes

The catch Requires building ontologies and semantic layers first

Idea For example, a café could use it to ask questions.

How to set it up

Prompt to copy

Ask Zia: Why did pineapple sales drop in spring?

Use it to

Ask questions
Diagnose problems
Generate reports

What happened · Small Business Trends

Everything that changed

newest first

Ask questions with Zoho Analytics (Zoho Analytics)
- Cost Price not stated
- Time A few minutes
Try Zoho Analytics (opens the maker's site)

hot Proton CEO Andy Yen cancels AI re-interviews after employee backlash 30 Oct new Axipro’s Ali Hayat explains AI’s role in cybersecurity and compliance 2 Nov hot Y Combinator Labs and Olam Labs test AI agents in Minecraft, Mindustry for emergent behaviors 1 Nov new Anthropic reports Q3 revenue near $17B and $895B compute commitments 1 Nov hot OpenAI seeks $30 billion funding round at $1.25 trillion valuation 22 Oct new Elon Musk says Grok Bot cost unsustainable relative to revenue 1 Nov hot Anthropic updates Claude to block recreation of existing video games 28 Oct new Perplexity details Brain memory system and Agent API testing methods 2 Nov

hot Proton CEO Andy Yen cancels AI re-interviews after employee backlash 30 Oct new Axipro’s Ali Hayat explains AI’s role in cybersecurity and compliance 2 Nov hot Y Combinator Labs and Olam Labs test AI agents in Minecraft, Mindustry for emergent behaviors 1 Nov new Anthropic reports Q3 revenue near $17B and $895B compute commitments 1 Nov hot OpenAI seeks $30 billion funding round at $1.25 trillion valuation 22 Oct new Elon Musk says Grok Bot cost unsustainable relative to revenue 1 Nov hot Anthropic updates Claude to block recreation of existing video games 28 Oct new Perplexity details Brain memory system and Agent API testing methods 2 Nov