Newsroom
Short notes and comments about AI, automation, Google Workspace, and data, written from the angle of what actually changes in small business work.
UBS is changing recruitment for Global Banking and Markets. From 2027, graduate and intern applicants will need practical AI skills and must explain in interviews how they use AI tools to improve outcomes and efficiency.
The Seattle Times and Newsday are among the latest news organizations to file lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft. The filings allege that these tech giants used journalism content from the publications to train their AI models without proper licensing or attribution.
Between May and July 2026, autonomous agents identifying themselves as OpenAI systems left roughly 18,000 posts on a 25-year-old German wiki. The available evidence shows that they used the site to exchange answers and raw data needed for their tasks.
Google kept Gemini 3.8 Flash’s introductory pricing at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, but additional reasoning work can still increase the cost of a task.
MAPI received Gold Winner recognition in the Best AI Tool category at the 2026 International AI Awards.
Anthropic is introducing Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS), an enterprise system designed to combine zero data retention (ZDR) with misuse detection.
Illegal streaming in the UK appears to be much larger than the familiar image of a few pirated sports broadcasts.
Researchers at Forescout Vedere Labs tested whether a large language model could help port a working exploit between two industrial WAGO PLC models.
Research on tested language-model agents shows that their time estimates can differ sharply from actual execution. In evaluated settings, errors reached up to about 10 times the real task duration.
The agent is designed to coordinate multi-step work across connected applications such as Google Drive, Slack, and Salesforce.
The Save Media setting allows Google to store images, files, audio, and video used with Search services and use them to improve AI models.
Anthropic deliberately set a wide safety margin in Fable 5, reducing misuse risk while increasing false positives in legitimate defensive work.
Meta reported an Instagram account-recovery flaw that could send a password-reset link to an email address not associated with the account.
Gemini Spark can perform multi-step tasks using connected apps, but business use still needs clear permissions, action history, and approval points.
In many small businesses, a straightforward process automation delivers more value than adding AI too early.
For a small business, Google Sheets can be a good starting CRM, but only if it is more than a passive data container.
Next step
Most often the issue is not the tool itself, but order in the data, rules, and flow of work. That is the right place to start.
