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Small Business Daily Podcast — December 14, 2025
Today’s podcast episode was created from the following stories:
SaaStr AI App of the Week: Kintsugi — the AI that puts sales tax on autopilot
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Author: Jason Lemkin | Published: Not specified
Kintsugi is an AI-native platform that automates sales tax compliance end-to-end, from monitoring nexus to registering in new states, classifying products, filing returns, and remitting payments. A new partnership with Vertex promises enterprise-grade accuracy with modern, SMB-friendly workflows and pricing, including pay-per-filing. For growing B2B and e-commerce teams, it’s a timely way to reduce audit risk and reclaim finance hours.
I asked Rivian execs why an adventure-brand EV needs AI and self-driving. To them, they’re logical next steps.
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Author: Lloyd Lee | Published: December 13, 2025
Rivian unveiled an AI assistant and fully autonomous driving vision powered by its own silicon, positioning autonomy as a top purchase driver for customers. Executives say the push aligns with its tech-forward identity and includes plans to license software, underscored by a JV with Volkswagen. The move reflects an industry-wide race to deliver higher-level ADAS as consumer expectations rise.
Soxai Ring 2 is a new Japanese titanium smart ring with PPG sensor, five finishes, and no subscription fees
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Author: Anubhav Sharma | Published: December 13, 2025
Soxai’s Ring 2 introduces an in-house “Deep Sensing” PPG sensor, AI-assisted accelerometer, and skin temperature tracking in a titanium build with up to 14 days of battery life — and no subscription fees. With five finishes, 100 m water resistance, and NFC charging, it targets sleep and long-term wellness insights. It’s currently Japan-only, signaling growing regional competition in the smart-ring category.
Report: Intel could acquire inference chip startup SambaNova for $1.6B
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Author: Maria Deutscher | Published: December 12, 2025
Intel is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire SambaNova for $1.6B including debt, a move that would bolster its AI inference portfolio. SambaNova’s SN40L chip emphasizes power-efficient inference by minimizing data movement, shipped via the 16-chip SambaRack and accessible through a managed cloud. If completed, the deal would signal Intel’s deeper push into efficient data center inference amid intensifying competition.
Smarter, faster, sharper: how busy business owners can improve their marketing materials
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Author: Not specified | Published: December 8, 2025
This piece urges small business owners to focus on clarity, consistency, and connection across materials and offers a 15-minute weekly tune-up to keep assets sharp. It highlights quick wins like refreshing headlines, adding testimonials, and claiming a Google Business Profile. The takeaway: simple, repeatable processes and light AI-assisted design can dramatically improve customer perception and conversions.
AI marketing starter pack — grow faster, work smarter
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Author: MarkifyAI | Published: Not specified
This toolkit bundles AI prompts, templates, and workflows to help creators and small businesses speed up content production and automate repetitive marketing tasks. Framed as beginner-friendly, it promises time savings of 10–20 hours per week and more consistent posting across platforms. For lean teams, it’s a plug-and-play way to standardize output without hiring additional staff.
Browser4: a lightning-fast, coroutine-safe browser for your AI
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Author: Not specified | Published: Not specified
Browser4 offers high-throughput browser automation and agent capabilities, supporting 100k–200k page visits per machine per day with advanced extraction via ML and X-SQL. It blends autonomous agent workflows with precise CDP control, proxy rotation, and anti-bot techniques for reliability at scale. For data-heavy teams, it’s an infrastructure play to power scalable scraping, RPA, and agentic web tasks.
For Canada’s startups, AI was a dominant force in 2025
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Author: Dominique Ritter and MaRS staff | Published: December 12, 2025
Despite headwinds, AI dominated Canada’s tech scene with marquee funding rounds and government moves to attract top researchers, including 100 new research chairs. Notable raises spanned Cohere, Multiverse, Morphocell, and others, while universities and corporates stepped up with targeted investments. The broader signal: policy and capital are coalescing around AI, reshaping where talent and startups cluster.
Across compliance, cars, chips, marketing, automation, wearables, and national policy, one theme stands out: AI is moving from buzzword to backbone. For small business owners, the playbook is clear — put AI to work where it saves time or reduces risk, stay alert to platform shifts in hardware and autonomy, and keep your marketing crisp and consistent to turn attention into action.
