Tech Tip Twosday – July 15, 2025

Tech Tip Twosday: AI News and Tools for Business Leaders

July 15, 2025

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Tech Tip Twosday, where we serve up the latest tech insights in handy pairs. This week we’ve got 2 AI-driven tools boosting business productivity (and peace of mind), 2 smart tips to work smarter, and 2 must-know tech headlines on the business radar. Let’s dive in – no fluff, just the good stuff.

🚀 Two Tools to Try

  • Coworker.ai – Your AI “Colleague”: Ever wish you had a teammate who actually read all the docs? Coworker.ai just launched as an AI agent that can “independently research, plan, and execute complex work just like an experienced colleague,” performing multi-step tasks across 25+ enterprise apps. Its secret sauce is OM1, a proprietary “company brain” that tracks 120+ business parameters (projects, teams, docs, etc.) to retain internal knowledge. In plain English: it knows your company context cold. Coworker can answer questions, draft plans, write code, update tickets – basically turn one person into a whole task force. It’s like having an AI coworker who never sleeps (and never schedules unnecessary meetings).

  • Vorlon’s AI Security Platform – No More “Shadow AI”: With great AI power comes great security responsibility. Vorlon (launched today, in true Twosday timing) is unveiling the first unified SaaS and AI security platform that gives IT and business leaders a bird’s-eye view of all the AI tooling flying around. It tackles the wildcard of “shadow AI” – those unauthorized AI apps or copilots your teams might secretly be using. Vorlon can “instantly surface unauthorized or hidden AI tools, copilots, and integrations,” and map out where sensitive data is flowing. In short, it shines a light on any rogue AI usage and ensures your data isn’t sneaking off to places it shouldn’t. Consider it the security watchdog for the era of AI-everywhere, so you can innovate without losing sleep (or data).

💡 Two Tips to Use

  • Tame Your Inbox with AI: Emails piling up faster than coffee mugs in the sink? Let AI help triage. If you’re on Microsoft 365, Copilot for Outlook can summarize long emails before you even open them and draft reply suggestions based on the context. Google’s Workspace isn’t far behind – its new Gemini AI for Gmail is rolling out AI that provides instant summaries of lengthy threads and even drafts new emails from scratch on command. The practical upshot: you spend less time wading through “FYI” email novels and more time on actual work. Just remember to double-check AI-crafted replies for tone (unless you want your emails sounding like a robot intern).

  • Make Meetings Less Painful: In back-to-back meetings all day? Send in the clones – the AI clones, that is. Tools like Otter.ai can join your meetings as a silent participant, transcribe everything, and pop out a concise summary with key points and action items. Similarly, platforms are adding features to cover for you: Zoom’s AI Companion will even let you send an “AI twin” to meetings to take notes and highlight the important stuff. The tip here: use these AI assistants to catch up on meetings you skipped or to reduce how many you need to attend in the first place. You’ll free up time and still know who promised to do what by Friday. (Pro move: next time you do attend, surprise everyone by actually listening instead of note-taking.)

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🗞️ Two Headlines to Watch

  • Texas Bets Big on AI Guardrails: Everything’s bigger in Texas – now including AI regulation. Texas lawmakers have passed a sweeping new AI law governing both government and private sector AI use. This law mandates transparency, bias mitigation measures, and even regular AI audits – making it one of the most extensive state-level AI laws in the U.S. The goal is to balance innovation with ethical safeguards (yee-haw!). Business leaders nationwide should keep an eye on this trend: with federal AI rules lagging, states jumping in could mean a patchwork of regulations your compliance team will need to wrangle.

  • Big Tech Goes Nuclear (Literally) for AI Power: The AI boom is hungry – power-hungry. So much so that tech giants are cutting deals with nuclear energy providers to keep their data centers juiced. Companies like Microsoft and Google are turning to nuclear power to sustainably run AI data centers and massive model training workloads. Why does this matter? On one hand, it’s a strategic play to tackle AI’s huge energy consumption and carbon footprint; on the other, it signals just how critical and large-scale AI operations have become. Business leaders should note the subtext: AI isn’t just a software investment, it might demand infrastructure moves (or at least higher electricity bills) that were unthinkable a few years ago. When cloud providers start talking kilowatts and reactors, you know AI has entered a whole new phase of industrial scale.

Stay smart and we’ll see you next Tech Tip Twosday – because in this fast-paced tech world, good things (still) come in twos.

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