2026-01-29 Small Business Daily

Silk Logic's Small Business Daily Podcast is your go-to channel for practical news, trends, and real-world stories about artificial intelligence and automation tools transforming the modern business landscape. Each episode is crafted for entrepreneurs, business owners, and tech-savvy professionals ready to seize the opportunities of the digital era. Today’s episode spotlights billion-dollar funding deals, brand-new tools, and inspiring results from artificial intelligence and automation across industries. Stories touch on self-driving fleets, smart document management, automated cybersecurity, cloud cost reduction, agent-focused marketing analytics, and artificial intelligence-driven insurance back offices. Today's podcast episode was created from the following stories: - Waabi raises up to $1 billion and partners with Uber to deploy 25,000 robotaxis as the race to dominate self-driving heats up <a href="https://fortune.com/2026/01/28/waabi-fundraise-valuation-1-billion-partners-w