82% of small business employers now invest in AI tools. The question isn’t whether to use them — it’s which ones pay for themselves. Here’s my shortlist, sorted by the job you’re hiring them to do.
NotebookLM used to be the quiet, dependable tool in my stack — great for digesting sources I’d already gathered, not
Google promised its frontier model “next month” at I/O. That month is almost gone, and Gemini 3.5 Pro is still locked to a handful of enterprise customers. Here is what is real, and why you should not build on a model you cannot get.
Copilot Cowork went generally available on June 16 with pay-as-you-go pricing layered on top of your Copilot license. I ran my own usage through the calculator and it came back $500–900 a month. Before you panic, here is the optimistic, practical way to think about it — and exactly how to keep the bill sane.
Before I knew anything, I built my wife’s real estate advertising by screenshotting Google Ads, Leadpages, and DNS screens and asking ChatGPT “what’s next?” It was slow, but I learned everything that way. Here is the honest story — and why I still love the tool even as I move on.
I pay full price for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Here is how each one earns its keep, which one I am cutting, and the single feature making that decision harder than the math says it should be.
I run IT infrastructure and operations, which means I have to learn something new almost every week. For about a year, NotebookLM has been how I do it. Here’s my exact workflow, real results, and the honest downsides.
A June 3 assessment of 100 production AI agents found almost all of them one hostile document away from takeover, while researchers disclosed SymJack, an attack that hijacks AI coding assistants. Here is what to actually do about it.
The US government ordered Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 over a national-security concern, and the company switched both models off worldwide. Here’s what happened, what it means for businesses that built on them, and why the standoff almost has to end in a compromise.
Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO on June 1 at a ~$965B valuation, with OpenAI finalizing its own paperwork weeks behind. Here is what it means if you run your business on these tools.