Zoom’s New Superpower: AI Sidekick Edition 🦸

Tired of forgetting what that very important person said during your team Zoom call right after you grab your fifth snack of the day? Well, Zoom heard your snack crumbs hit the keyboard and just dropped a massive update — AI Companion 3.0!

It’s like having a personal robot friend who actually listens and doesn’t get bored mid-meeting. This shiny new upgrade doesn’t just take notes — oh no, that’s so last version. It creates action items, files your tasks nicely into places like Google Drive or OneDrive, and reminds you what you promised your boss (without sass).

Basically, your Zoom meetings can now officially be smarter than your group chat about fantasy football. Some are using it to manage project follow-ups, while others probably have it remind them to stretch. Either way — work just got AI-fied.

Photoshop Magic Now in ChatGPT? Yes. This is Real. 🎨💥

Big news from the art-and-paper-wrangling wizards at Adobe: you can now use Photoshop, Acrobat, AND Express without ever leaving ChatGPT. That means instead of wrestling with layers or trying to remember how to rotate a panda in a PDF, you just tell the bot what you want!

Want to erase your ex from vacation photos? ChatGPT + Photoshop.
Want to combine 15 PDFs into one huge report that no one will read? ChatGPT + Acrobat.
Want to jazz it up with animated templates? Fire up Adobe Express.

It’s like casting spells, but with pixels.

Nvidia’s New Brain Babies: Meet the Nemotron 3 Family! 🤖👶

Nvidia rolled out its cool-sounding Nemotron 3 models that sound like Pokémon evolutions…but smarter. You’ve got:

Nemotron Nano – tiny model, small tasks.
Nemotron Super – big model, medium brain.
Nemotron Ultra – giga-brain for agents handling world domination—I mean, world-class customer support.

These models are open-source and great for building multi-agent AI systems that talk to each other and build task armies. It’s like a super team of AIs ready to organize your life, your to-dos, and maybe even your winter closet. (Still debating if socks go in color sections.)

Beware: These bots are smarter than most of our New Year’s resolutions.

From “Genius” to “Genius with Memory” 🧠✨

Investor Gavin Baker made a not-so-boring point: AI doesn’t need to be just "smart" anymore; it needs to be "useful." He says context is now king. Like, your AI shouldn’t just know you want a vacation—it should know you like early sunrises, hate aisle seats, and avoid beach towels that smell funky.

Gavin’s formula for next-level AI:

Big Memory – It should remember EVERYTHING. Even that weird spreadsheet you made in 2019 called “Cats_and_Q2_Metrics.xls”.
Boringly Reliable – No surprise jazz hands. Just straight answers.
Long Task Champ – From “Hey, book dinner” to “Plan Great Aunt Shelly’s anniversary cruise with five stopovers and gluten-free snacks.”

Watch out SaaS companies—this version of AI might just become your boss.

🎄 Other Cool Things to Know Today:

OpenAI’s secret holiday gifts are coming next week, and the internet is either expecting GPT-6 or a hoodie with secret cheat codes.
Google DeepMind might drop Gemma 4 soon—a smaller, cuter cousin of Gemini that'll run on your laptop like a pro.
Intel is rumored to be buying SambaNova for a whopping $1.6 billion. That’s a lot of chips (sadly not the crunchy kind 🍟).

🚀 Two AI Tools You’ll Want to Brag About:

CFO X – Finance giving you math nightmares? CFO X is your AI financial buddy who speaks “human” and helps with money decisions without needing a calculator.
Xpptx – Presentations in one click. Say goodbye to PowerPoint-induced existential dread. Just type what you want, and boom—slide magic.