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Small Business Daily Podcast — 02/03/2026
Today’s podcast episode was created from the following stories:
My employees were wary of AI. Then I incentivized them with profit sharing.
By Sarah E. Needleman | February 2, 2026
Source: Business Insider
MassPay overcame staff resistance to AI by launching a profit-sharing plan that rewards cost savings and efficiency gains. The program helped compress client onboarding from a week to 24 hours, avoid five planned hires, and deliver payouts equal to 18% of salary last year with nearly 50% expected this year—without replacing existing employees.
From diet to injury prediction, AI platform to power Indian sports
By PTI | February 2, 2026
Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
The Sports Ministry’s NCSSR rolled out SPEEED AI, a centralized athlete management system built by Darwin (an IIT Bombay–incubated startup) now covering 6,000+ athletes across 14 National Centres of Excellence. The platform granularly tracks training and wellness, predicts injury risk from workload and movement data, strengthens anti-doping guidance via a verified AI assistant, and even supports automated age verification—all with athlete data kept within India.
Digantara inks pact with Singapore’s defence arm to protect satellites from space debris
By PTI | February 2, 2026
Source: The Economic Times
India’s Digantara will co-develop space situational awareness tools with Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency, giving Singapore sovereign control over debris-monitoring and collision-avoidance capabilities. The deal includes integrating Digantara’s sensor network with AI analytics and positions the startup to expand across the Asia-Pacific market.
Anthropic launches AI tool Cowork, Microsoft speeds up AI agent development
By Ollie Chang and Jingyue Hsiao, DIGITIMES Asia | February 2, 2026
Source: DIGITIMES Asia
Anthropic unveiled Cowork, an AI agent that can carry out tasks across multiple applications, and it reportedly caught the attention of Microsoft’s leadership. CEO Satya Nadella personally tested agent capabilities and pushed teams to accelerate development—another sign that multi-app AI agents are moving from demos to deployment.
