Intelligent Automation Newsletter #188
Pascal BORNET
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This week’s 5 top stories you can't miss:
1?? [AI-POWERED DOCUMENT PROCESSING] Mistral?AI?just?launched?Mistral OCR, a powerful new API designed to extract and comprehend detailed information from complex documents with exceptional speed and accuracy.
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Why it matters:?With so much of the world’s data still trapped in complex documents, unlocking it efficiently is crucial. Mistral OCR capabilities could supercharge archive-heavy industries like financial analytics, legal discovery, historical preservation, and more — transforming static information into dynamic,?AI-ready knowledge bases.
2??[AI-DRIVEN FAST FOOD] McDonald's is?undergoing?a massive tech transformation across its 43,000 restaurants, introducing new?AI-powered systems for everything from equipment maintenance to maintaining order accuracy.
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Why it matters:?With 70M daily customers, even minor issues can pose major operational challenges. By integrating?AI?into its vast operations, McDonald’s can further boost efficiency—and as the fast-food giant embraces the technology alongside Taco Bell, Wendy’s, and others, the rest of the industry is likely to follow.
3??[ENTERPRISE AI AGENTS] OpenAI just?launched?new tools that let businesses build their own?AI?agents,enabling custom bots to handle tasks like web browsing and file management and marking a major push toward bringing autonomous?AI?assistants into the enterprise.
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Why it matters:?2025 has already?been declared the year of?AI?agents, and China’s?Manus?took the hype to another level in the past week. While most agents have generated more hype than results, OpenAI expanding the ability for users to build and customize agentic tools may help bridge the gap between demos and real-world utility.
4?? [AI-AUTHORED RESEARCH] Japanese?AI?startup Sakana?announced?that its?AI?system successfully generated a scientific paper that passed peer review, with the company calling it the first fully?AI-authored paper to clear the scientific bar.
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Why it matters:?While this milestone comes with significant asterisks, it also represents a major early marker of?AI's advancing role in academic research processes. Between models like Sakana’s and Google’s?AI?co-scientist, a seismic shift is getting closer and closer for the scientific world.
5?? [MULTIMODALITY] Google?released?new experimental image-generation capabilities for its Gemini 2.0 Flash model, letting users upload, create, and edit images directly from the language model without requiring a separate image-generation system.
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Why it matters:?This upgrade is a major step in shifting how?AI?generates visual content — moving away from dedicated image models toward language models that natively understand both text and visuals. Just as natural language prompting has taken over other domains, image editing appears to be next on the list.
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1 天前Yup, the data mining by Ai is now digitizing printed stuff too to use?
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1 天前Congrats Pascal.
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1 天前Thank you, Pascal, for consistently delivering such insightful content. Your dedication to fostering knowledge in AI and automation is truly inspiring!