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Practical notes on AI automation, business systems, and lead capture for Fox Valley trades, dental practices, and property managers.
The 'anti-slop' files fighting AI slop are AI slop
Ethan Mollick called out viral anti-slop agent files as 100% AI written. Why taste, not copied templates, decides what your AI actually produces.
2026-07-20 · 4 min read
Kimi K3: an open-weights model is now No. 1 in frontend code
Moonshot's Kimi K3 debuted at the top of the Frontend Code Arena, past Claude Fable 5, with open weights due July 27. What the DeepSeek flashbacks miss.
2026-07-19 · 4 min read
Nobel economists say 'we must act now' on AI. Act on what?
Sixteen Nobel laureates and frontier lab leaders signed an 88-word AI jobs warning. Inside the X debate, and the practical takeaway for small business.
2026-07-18 · 4 min read
Meta's free AI Business Agent gets a meter on August 1
Meta Business Agent moves to token billing on August 1 at $2 per million tokens. What the end of the free window means for small businesses.
2026-07-17 · 4 min read
Claude is now free for every US teacher. Here's the real lesson
Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers, free for verified US K-12 educators. The real story for businesses is what grounds the AI, not the price.
2026-07-15 · 3 min read
Zuckerberg breaks a 3-year X silence to start an AI price war
Mark Zuckerberg returned to X after three years to launch Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 and a paid API priced far below rivals. Here is our honest read.
2026-07-13 · 4 min read
Claude Cowork goes mobile, and most of its work isn't code
Anthropic put Claude Cowork on mobile and web, and its own data shows over 90% of agent usage is not coding. Here is what that means for your business.
2026-07-12 · 4 min read
ChatGPT now builds and hosts websites. Should you care?
ChatGPT Work and Sites let OpenAI's agent build and host real websites. A web agency's honest read on what this changes for small businesses.
2026-07-11 · 4 min read
GPT-Live: ChatGPT can now listen while it talks
OpenAI's GPT-Live makes ChatGPT Voice full duplex, listening and speaking at once. Here is why natural voice AI matters for local businesses.
2026-07-10 · 4 min read
Why two AI legends just left DeepMind in a single week
Noam Shazeer left Google for OpenAI and John Jumper left for Anthropic days apart. Here is what the DeepMind talent exodus signals for anyone building on AI.
2026-07-09 · 3 min read
Why Karpathy's 'decade of agents' warning is back on X
Andrej Karpathy's line that this is the decade of agents, not the year of agents, is circulating on X again. Here is what it means for your business.
2026-07-08 · 3 min read
Grok 4.5, Claude Science, and the one-week clone problem
Musk promises a new frontier model every month while Anthropic's Claude Science gets an open-source clone within a week. Here is what the churn means.
2026-07-07 · 4 min read
The fine print behind GPT-5.6 and Claude Sonnet 5
OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 at the government's request while Sonnet 5's new tokenizer quietly raises real costs. The fine print from AI's launch week.
2026-07-06 · 4 min read
How Wheaton dental practices fill no-shows and recall gaps
Empty hygiene chairs and last-minute cancellations quietly drain Wheaton dental practices. Here is how automation keeps your schedule full.
2026-06-15 · 4 min read
Why Fox Valley trades lose jobs to missed calls (and how to stop it)
Most home-service jobs go to whoever answers first. Here is how St. Charles and Geneva trades capture every call without hiring a receptionist.
2026-06-15 · 2 min read
The US just forced a frontier AI model offline worldwide
Days after launching Claude Fable 5, Anthropic had to disable it for every customer worldwide under a US export-control order. Here is what that signals.
2026-06-15 · 4 min read
ChatGPT's new 'Dreaming' memory quietly builds a profile of you
OpenAI's new 'Dreaming' memory makes ChatGPT synthesize a self-updating profile from your chats. Here is what that means for businesses using it.
2026-06-15 · 3 min read