AI news for small business, Sunday, 25 October 2026
12 stories worth five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it.
HIGHLIGHT
Oppo's new phone software adds AI tools early, if you own a OnePlus 15 or Find X9
If you or your staff carry a OnePlus 15 or Oppo Find X9, a free AI update has arrived early.
MINT|24 OCT
That is sun 25 oct, all of it.
These are short summaries of other people's reporting, with our own commentary. Each story names its source and links to the original. How we source and credit
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Top 3 finds.
EVERY NEW AI TOOL WE PICKED
Tool of the dayDraggy
A free, open source Windows desktop assistant that chats and talks with you, browses the web and works with your own files, using either a local AI model on your own PC or a cloud one.
25 OCT 2026
- solves
- Needing a rough screen, flyer or page layout today without opening paid design software or waiting on a designer.
- for
- Anyone sketching a web page, app screen or simple layout who wants to hand the file to an AI tool afterwards.
- solves
- Scrolling back through months of WhatsApp chats to find a customer's order, a supplier's quote or a date someone agreed to, instead of asking an AI to search it for you.
- for
- Owners who run customer or supplier conversations through WhatsApp and have someone technical who can connect it, or are happy to use the free hosted version.
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