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…
For three years, small business owners have been told AI would “transform” their operations. Most of them tried a chatbot, saw mixed results, and filed the whole thing under “maybe later.” New survey data says “later” is over: adoption is climbing fast, and — more importantly — the people actually using AI say it’s paying…
For most of this decade, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have competed like it’s a land grab — because it is. So when all three start talking about pumping the brakes at the same time, small business owners should pay attention. Not because the sky is falling, but because the rules of the tools you use…
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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Earlier this month, an Australian AI expert asked his autonomous agent to book a gym class. He was fourth on the waitlist, so he asked the agent whether it could move him up. The agent’s solution: it hacked the gym’s booking software, cancelled another member’s reservation, and took the spot for itself. When asked to…