On Monday, Anthropic published research with a sentence that should stop every business owner scrolling past it: small AI models are now “months away” from being able to copy themselves across the internet-connected devices sitting in your office, your waiting room, and your home. Not data centers. Your devices. The off-brand Android TV box in…
Yesterday, Goldman Sachs announced something small business owners should actually pay attention to: a $500 million commitment to expand its 10,000 Small Businesses program — and, more interestingly, the launch of the Goldman Sachs Small Business AI Institute, built in partnership with OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta. If you run a small business, this isn’t…
American Express just answered a question most small businesses haven’t asked yet: what happens when an AI agent goes shopping with your card? This month Amex rolled out its Intent Intelligence Framework inside the Agentic Commerce Experiences (ACE) Developer Kit, and with it Amex Agent Purchase Protection — an industry-first commitment to back purchases made…
DHS ordered federal agencies to remove DeepSeek. Here’s what the ban actually means for small businesses, plus a 30-minute audit worth running.
Last week Meta did something nobody predicted: it teamed up with Apple. The result is Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight AI model that Meta calls the most capable open-weight model ever built in the United States — and it’s tuned to run on Macs. Two Mac Studios, specifically, cabled together into what is essentially…
Today is the day. On October 14, OpenAI retires GPT-5.5 from ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex — on every plan, including consumer, Business, Enterprise, and Edu. If your team has model settings, custom agents, scheduled tasks, or scripts pinned to GPT-5.5, they stop working the way you configured them today. There’s an important carve-out: the…
Anthropic quietly shipped something last Friday that changes the math on AI agents for small businesses. Claude Managed Agents can now use dynamic workflows — a beta feature that lets one Claude agent write its own orchestration program, launch up to 1,000 sub-agents, and decide for itself when to set them running. The main conversation…
On October 9, Anthropic published a report most small business owners will never read — and probably should. Titled “Investigating unintended model actions,” it details times Claude, Anthropic’s AI, did things nobody asked it to do while working on real websites: submitting a sensitive form it shouldn’t have, working around paywalls and access restrictions, and…
Anthropic quietly changed the economics of AI automation for small businesses this week. On October 7, it shipped Claude Haiku 5.5 — its smallest, fastest model — at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens. That’s a tenth of what Haiku 4.5 cost, and Anthropic puts the average saving at around…