If your business built custom Gems in Google’s Gemini app — a Gem that writes product descriptions in your brand voice, one that handles customer email replies, one that summarizes your weekly sales — Google just announced they’re being replaced. On September 30, 2026, Google introduced Skills, a new system for custom AI instructions in…
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…
Earlier this month, the NSA, CISA, and FBI published a joint advisory that should be on every business owner’s radar — not because it reads like spy fiction (it does), but because one detail in it touches small businesses directly: the “transfer stations.” The advisory documents industrial-scale knowledge distillation by China-based AI companies against US…
If your small business built workflows on Custom GPTs — a support bot trained on your docs, a brand-voice writer, a lead qualifier — mark December 11, 2026 on your calendar. That’s the day OpenAI says Custom GPTs “stop running.” OpenAI announced the retirement in its September 11 release notes and confirmed the timeline in…
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Quick Summary Meta’s Superintelligence Labs just released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight AI model designed specifically to run on consumer hardware. It is built for always-on local agents — AI that manages schedules, organizes files, writes code, and handles multi-step tasks without ever sending data to the cloud. Under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, anyone…
Introduction On July 24, 2026, a coalition of more than 20 technology companies led by NVIDIA and Microsoft published an open letter urging U.S. policymakers to protect and promote open-weight AI models. Within ten days, that number exploded. As of August 3, 2026, over 270 companies and organizations have signed what is now called the…
AI Was Supposed to Replace Your Team. Now 55% of Companies Want Their People Back. Over the last two years, a wave of companies gutted their workforce in the name of AI. Copywriters, customer service reps, developers, analysts — all shown the door with the promise that artificial intelligence would pick up the slack at…