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Small Business Daily Podcast — December 26, 2025
Today’s podcast episode was created from the following stories:
[2025 Guide] AI-Driven Advertising Solutions for Marketing Automation
By Kshitiz Kumar — December 25, 2024
Creative fatigue is the bottleneck in 2025, and the piece explains how “agentic AI” can autonomously research, generate, and test ad variations to keep performance up. It lays out a crawl-walk-run roadmap, benchmarks like a 5–10 concept weekly refresh rate and sub-$50 cost per video, and highlights tools from Runway to Koro for rapid, URL-to-video production. For small businesses, the takeaway is to shift effort from manual production to strategy while tracking thumbstop rate and cost per creative as core KPIs.
From Books to Breakthroughs: How AI is Rewriting the Rules for Small Business
By John Lee Dumas (host), guest: Tim McConnehey — December 25, 2025
The episode emphasizes using AI to elevate human creativity, not replace it, and argues that process clarity is the lever that turns AI into measurable profit. The big message for owners: favor smart experimentation over perfectionism—test, tweak, improve, repeat—to make AI a practical advantage in everyday operations.
Nvidia’s Groq deal signals a strategic push to defend its AI inference turf
By Jingyue Hsiao — December 25, 2025
Nvidia is acquiring key assets from Groq in what is described as its largest deal yet, underscoring a pivot from a focus on training dominance to the high-stakes race in inference efficiency. For businesses betting on real-time AI, the move signals intensifying competition to deliver faster, lower-latency inference at scale.
DP Technology raises $114M to accelerate China’s AI for science industry
By Mike Wheatley — December 24, 2025
DP Technology secured $114 million to scale its “AI for science” suite spanning molecular simulation, lab automation, and battery and drug design, with tools like Particle Universe and Uni-Lab already used by 1,000+ research orgs and 150 enterprise clients. The funding highlights growing momentum behind domain-specific AI that shortens R&D cycles in energy, pharma, and materials—areas with direct downstream impact on small-business supply chains.
HCLSoftware to acquire Jaspersoft for reported $240M
By Maria Deutscher — December 24, 2025
HCLSoftware is buying Jaspersoft to bolster its Actian Data Intelligence Platform with embedded BI and an in-memory engine for faster analytics, alongside a smaller deal for Wobby to add natural language querying via AI agents. For SMBs, the combination points to more accessible, self-serve analytics and customizable dashboards inside the apps they already use.
How JP Vasta helps small business owners overcome marketing overwhelm with AI
By JP Vasta — December 24, 2024
Rather than chasing volume, this approach uses AI to create clarity—organizing ideas, surfacing insights from customer feedback, and simplifying workflows so owners can show up consistently. The result is more confident messaging and lower stress, proving that focused systems beat complex, inconsistent tactics.
Exclusive: Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq’s assets for about $20 billion in largest deal on record
By David Faber — December 24, 2025
CNBC reports Nvidia is purchasing Groq’s assets for $20 billion in cash, its biggest deal to date, with Groq leaders joining Nvidia while GroqCloud continues operating separately. The move expands Nvidia’s inference capabilities and underscores how central low-latency AI performance has become for the next wave of applications.
