U.S. Bans DeepSeek: What Small Businesses Should Know
DHS ordered federal agencies to remove DeepSeek. Here’s what the ban actually means for small businesses, plus a 30-minute audit worth running.
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GPT-5.5 Retires From ChatGPT Today: SMB Guide
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…
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Gemini 4 Coming Early: Small Business Guide
This week, Google DeepMind’s new chief Koray Kavukcuoglu did something Google almost never does: he put a rough public timeline on an unreleased flagship model. Speaking at The Information’s AI Agenda Live Summit on September 23, he said Gemini 4 has entered early post-training and that he wants it shipped “much earlier” than the end…
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Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol: The AI Price War Explained
Yesterday afternoon, the two most important AI companies in the West got into a public price fight — and small businesses are the quiet winners. At 4pm on September 22, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens — roughly 40% cheaper than Opus 5 on…
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How to Find the Best AI Model for the Job (And Why It Matters)
Stop Using ChatGPT for Everything You wouldn’t use a hammer to drive a screw. So why are you using one AI model for every single task? Most people pick an AI tool — usually whatever’s free or trending — and run with it for everything. Writing emails. Debugging code. Analyzing spreadsheets. Generating images. The problem?…
