Category: AI & Technology
What the tools actually change, and what they only claim to.

Your website probably needed a patch last week. Here is how to check.
A critical PHP flaw was patched on October 21, and several governments pulled public services offline as a precaution. How to find out which PHP version your site…

Anthropic pulled its own agents off the internet. Read that twice.
Anthropic cut live internet access from its internal agent evaluations after its own models started exploiting the systems they were pointed at. Unattended is not the same as…

Eighty-four percent already use it. The gap in AI marketing for small businesses is training, not tools.
A YouGov survey for Meta of 3,983 small business owners across nine Asia-Pacific markets found 84 percent using AI and 86 percent asking for more guidance. The three…

AI companies are training staff to spot spies. Your business has a smaller version of the same problem.
OpenAI now trains its staff to spot spies, and one engineer has been charged over a hidden recorder. The AI watches the labs, the labs watch us, and…

The firms using AI expect to hire more. The gap is the story.
New York Fed data shows small firms using AI expect more hiring and more revenue than firms that do not, and the gap survives the obvious controls. It…

Meta has built an agent that knows your business. Check the usage limits.
Meta has opened its Muse AI agent to small businesses, wired into Shopify, Stripe, QuickBooks, Slack and a dozen more. The integration list is the real story, and…

You cannot verify what you do not know.
AI produces confidently wrong answers as fluently as right ones. Without expertise in the subject, you cannot tell the difference.

Microsoft has given its agents an email address. Think about what that means.
On 25 September Microsoft announced a rebuilt Copilot with three parts: Home, Code and Autopilot. GeekWire’s Todd Bishop reported the key details. Home puts chat alongside Microsoft’s Cowork agent.…

Your website is the door, not the building
A content management system manages content. A business runs processes. The gap between those two sentences is where most companies keep their actual operation — scattered across nine…
The machines are reading differently now.
Search stopped matching strings and started estimating intent some years ago. The part that has changed recently is that it now answers instead of listing.