Category: AI & Emerging Tech

Cloudflare began blocking mixed-use AI crawlers on ad-supported sites September 15. Here is who got flipped, what it costs you, and how to check your setting.

New Federal Reserve data puts small business AI adoption near 40 percent. The barriers owners named are not AI problems. Here is the audit to run first.

AI coding assistants invent software packages that do not exist, and attackers now register those names first. What small business owners should verify before anything gets installed.

Hundreds of AI agents compromised 440 print servers at 395 organizations. The number that should worry a small business is not 395. It is four hours.

Transcription now costs about ten cents an audio hour. The savings are irrelevant. What matters is what was never worth recording before and now is.

Meta acquired Swedish startup Stilla.ai to power Meta Business Agent. Here is what it means for the DM automation tools small businesses pay for.

Meta Muse AI agent can now buy things for customers, with Stripe Link built in. Here is what small business owners should check at checkout this week.

Mistral just raised 3 billion euros at a 21 billion valuation. Here is what a third well-funded AI vendor actually changes about your small business AI bill.

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra is rolling out now at 2.5x the price of Sol. Here is what actually changes for small business owners, and what you can safely ignore.

ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini all hit trouble within a day of each other. What the September 2026 AI outages mean for small businesses, and a backup plan that actually fits a three-person company.