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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.…
Growth Metrics: Pick One You Can Already Count
Revenue rises when you sell more and when you charge more, and a dashboard cannot tell them apart. Pick the…
AI Shopping Agents Just Won in Court. Your Site Is Next
A federal appeals court ruled that AI shopping agents do not access a website. The user does. The agent is…
AI and Outsourcing: If You Can Brief It, AI Can Do It
The World Bank's new report says work outsourced to developing countries fell 39 percent in 2025, with the steepest drops…
Decision-Making Framework for Small Business Owners
Every decision you have not made is already running as a default. List them, write the default beside each one,…
AI Applications for Small Business: Just Record Yourself
Anthropic's Record a Skill lets you teach Claude a workflow by screen-recording yourself doing it. The automation is the smaller…
