AI in Action — August 24, 2025
Your daily hit of actionable AI news, tools, and next-level prompts — built for builders, solopreneurs, automators, and curious professionals. No fluff. Real current value. NEWS (Strategic developments worth your time—packed with potential actions.) 🧠 TinyFish Raises $47M for Web Agents 🔍 Summary: TinyFish secured $47M to scale AI-powered web agents that mimic human browsing for price, inventory, and competitor tracking. 📎 Source: Reuters 🚀 Why It Matters: Shows demand for autonomous, resilient data collection tools is surging. 👀 Who Should Care: Retail automation builders, data teams, ops leaders 🏃 Take Action: Imagine your own agent for tracking trends or pricing—prototype in Notion or Zapier today. 🧠 Windows 11’s AI Overhaul Lands in August 🔍 Summary: Microsoft’s latest features include Copilot Vision to “see” your desktop, AI commands in Settings, relighting in Photos, AI object select in Paint, “perfect screenshots,” and a smart recovery BSOD. 📎 Source: Windows Central 🚀 Why It Matters: AI integration is going system-wide—your OS is now a proactive assistant. 👀 Who Should Care: Productivity hackers, creators, Windows users 🏃 Take Action: Try Copilot Vision or AI Settings on your Copilot+ PC and build workflows around desktop context. 🧠 70+ AI Tools Put to the Test 🔍 Summary: TechRadar evaluated 70+ AI tools—from multimodal assistants like ChatGPT‑4o to design tools like Firefly, video generators like Synthesia, note tools like Fireflies, and more. 📎 Source: TechRadar 🚀 Why It Matters: A curated, hands-on overview to cut through the noise and pick tools that add real value. 👀 Who Should Care: Builders, creators, productivity folks 🏃 Take Action: Pick a category you haven’t explored yet (e.g., AI note-takers) and test a top-rated tool like Fireflies today. TOOLS (Fresh SaaS tools you can try—innovative, lesser-known, and ready to sign up for.) 🧠 SciSpace Agent 🔍 Summary: AI agent for academic research—search across 150+ academic tools and databases via natural language.