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Manus Data Deletion: What to Back Up Before Aug 23
Manus is deleting user data created while Meta owned it, after China blocked the $2 billion acquisition. The backup deadline…
ChatGPT Business Pricing Adds a $125 Seat. Who Needs It?
OpenAI added a $125 Premium seat to ChatGPT Business pricing, five times the usage and no five-hour cap. Most teams…
Preventive Maintenance Schedule: Start With What’s Required
Most of a small business maintenance schedule has already been written, by regulators and by the manual in your drawer.…
AI for Small Business That Never Leaves the Building
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a free open-weight AI model small enough to run offline on one consumer GPU. It will…
Free AI Tools for Small Business: Unlimited, for Now
OpenAI made text chats unlimited on free ChatGPT accounts. That reshuffles the list of free AI tools for small business…
Customer Acquisition Cost: Count Hours, Not Just Cash
The standard formula divides cash spend by new customers, which returns zero for a business that buys no ads. Two…
Qwen3.8-Max Coded 16 Days Alone. Check the Benchmarks
Alibaba says its new Qwen3.8-Max model coded autonomously for 16 days. Its own benchmark table tells a more mixed story.…
Microsoft 365 Copilot: Small Business Now Pays Either Way
Microsoft made Copilot a permanent part of the Microsoft 365 plans small businesses actually buy, and raised the base plans…
Start Using AI in Your Small Business in 30 Days
A simple 30-day path for using AI in small business: pick one task, run one tool under your own review,…
AI Browser Agents Can Be Hijacked by a Single Comment
Researchers hijacked ChatGPT Atlas with one planted comment on an X thread, then steered it through the victim's logged-in accounts.…
