If you run a small business on Microsoft 365, September 25 quietly rearranged your software stack. Microsoft announced a rebuilt Copilot app with three sections — Home, Code, and Autopilot — and a pricing change that starts metering the heavy AI work instead of flat-rating it. We spend our days wiring agents into small business…
A week ago at DevDay 2026, OpenAI shipped more than 20 announcements — but the one that matters for small businesses is one word: dots. Always-on AI agents that don’t wait for you to open an app. Each dot gets its own cloud computer, learns what matters to you, and keeps working between conversations. Sam…
Bluevine just dropped its 2026 Small Business AI Trends Report, and buried under the headline numbers is one of the more surprising data points of the year: among Bluevine’s small business customers, Claude grew 729% year over year — and by April 2026, it had passed ChatGPT in total monthly transactions. If your mental model…
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…
Yesterday Meta announced Muse for Small Business, and it’s worth paying attention to even if you ignore most AI news. Meta took Muse — the personal AI agent it launched earlier this month that’s already topped free-app charts in the US and Canada with roughly 2.8 million downloads in two weeks — and pointed it…
OpenAI announced this morning that ChatGPT Ads has hit a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate — in under 200 days since launch. Alongside the milestone, the platform opened self-service buying through Ads Manager across India, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, bringing ChatGPT Ads to over 40 countries. The number that should actually…
Last Friday, the New York City Council did something Washington has talked about for a decade and never done: it introduced actual AI laws with teeth. Speaker Julie Menin unveiled a ten-bill package that would make it illegal to sell or deploy an AI system in the five boroughs without third-party validation and a “kill…
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…