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Inside: real-world use cases and Partner Perspectives you won’t find anywhere else:

• 1. 🎥 Create how-to video guides with Guidde
• 2  🛠️ Amazon introduces Nova Forge
• 3. 💬 Scale your voice agent beyond English with Speechmatics 
• 4. 🚗 How AI cut car recalls
• 5. 🔔 Android 16 adds AI notification summaries
• 6. 💰 Vultr invests $1B in Ohio AI cluster

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TOGETHER WITH GUIDDE

🎥 Guidde - Create how-to video guides fast and easy with AI

Tired of explaining the same thing over and over again to your colleagues?

It’s time to delegate that work to AI. Guidde is a GPT-powered tool that helps you explain the most complex tasks in seconds with AI-generated documentation.

1️⃣Share or embed your guide anywhere

2️⃣Turn boring documentation into stunning visual guides

3️⃣Save valuable time by creating video documentation 11x faster

Simply click capture on the browser extension and the app will automatically generate step-by-step video guides complete with visuals, voiceover and call to action.

The best part? The extension is 100% free

Latest in AI

Amazon introduces Nova Forge

🚨 Our Report 

Amazon Web Services has introduced Nova Forge, a program that lets enterprise clients customize Amazon’s AI models midway through training for $100K annually. It gives a more reasonable path for organizations that want to integrate proprietary data earlier in model development without building from scratch.

🔓 Key Points

• Nova Forge gives customers the ability to use AI models at various training stages, allowing them to embed their own data before final tuning for stronger domain alignment.

• The $100K annual fee excludes engineering support, though clients can separately ask for help from Amazon teams to build or refine their models.

• Early adopters include Reddit, Booking.com, Sony, and Nomura Research Institute, which are using Forge to create domain-specific AI systems for moderation, research, and personalization.

🔐 Relevance 

AWS is moving closer to OpenAI and Anthropic by offering enterprises a middle ground between off‑the‑shelf models and full custom builds. For business leaders, this signals a shift toward economic, semi‑custom AI infrastructure that balances control, cost, and compliance, especially for regulated or data‑sensitive sectors.

Partner Perspective

AI Is An Amplifier

Partner Column exclusively available in this edition of The AI Report
By Louis Shulman — Co-Founder at Orbit Flows

“AI is gasoline. Pure explosive force. But it’s up to you if you’re using it to create a bomb or propel a rocket.”

The AI Report Podcast

Low Ego, High Grit: How Salesforce Lands Massive AI Partnerships | Nick Johnston

TOGETHER WITH SPEECHMATICS

Scaling your voice agent beyond English is where most AI roadmaps fall apart.

If your stack can’t handle 55+ languages, overlapping speakers, heavy accented speech and background noise with sub second responses, it’s not built for the way customers talk IRL.

Build agents that know who said what in real time, in any market.

Case Study

How AI cut car recalls

• Ford, a US automaker producing trucks and SUVs, faced rising fees and frequent recalls across its F-150 and SUV lines.

• The issue came from tiny assembly errors that workers struggled to detect amid complex wiring, trim, and sensor configurations.

• Ford introduced AI-powered camera systems, AiTriz and MAIVS, to spot millimeter-level misalignments and incomplete electrical connections in real time.

• Installed at 35 and 700 stations respectively, these tools catch defects early, preventing costly rework and reducing recall-related expenses.

AI News Story

Android 16 adds AI notification summaries

• Google launched Android 16 with AI-powered notification summaries that condense long messages and group chats into quick overviews.

• The update also includes customization options like custom icon shapes and automatic dark mode for apps without native dark themes, while introducing enhanced accessibility features.

• This rollout marks Google's shift from single yearly updates to more frequent Android releases, starting with Pixel devices before expanding to other Android phones as the company accelerates feature delivery.

AI News Story

Vultr invests $1B in Ohio AI cluster

• Cloud provider Vultr announced a $1B commitment to build a 50‑megawatt AI data center in Springfield, Ohio, powered by AMD’s Instinct MI355X GPUs.

• The 24,000‑chip cluster will deliver high‑performance compute at about half the cost of major hyperscalers, according to CEO J.J. Kardwell.

• Vultr projects the cluster will be fully sold before launch, signaling strong demand for reasonable AI infrastructure. The move strengthens AMD’s foothold in enterprise AI and positions Vultr as a cost‑efficient alternative in the cloud market.

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News Flash

• OpenAI slammed for app suggestions that look like ads

• Axiado raises $100M for a chip to lessen space

• Anthropic acquires startup Bun

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