Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are planning an AI safety body modeled on FINRA and have reportedly approached Sriram Krishnan to run it. FINRA works because federal law makes brokers join it and the SEC stands above it. Nothing reported so far gives the AI body either, and that is the detail a small business should watch.
A team of Claude agents found a new family of CRISPR-like enzymes after 21.5 hours of unsupervised work. The preprint shows the discovery was not the assignment: one agent noticed a repeating pattern it was never asked to look for. 14 of 17 leads failed, humans did the lab work, and the lesson for your own business data is one extra line in your request.
Google’s Gemini can now phone your business for a Pixel 11 owner. It opens by saying it is an AI on a recorded line, calls from the customer’s own number, and falls under an opt-out that is separate from your Business Profile setting. Here is what your front desk should hear in those first ten seconds.
Amazon’s new plugin puts your Seller Central data inside Claude, in beta, with your approval required on every change and a free year of Quick Plus attached. Two days earlier, Amazon started blocking Meta’s Muse shopping agent. Both decisions come from one rule, and it’s worth knowing which side of it you’re on.
Anthropic and OpenAI each cut a flagship price on Tuesday, hours apart. Opus 5.5 landed on exactly the rate card OpenAI retired that same morning, and both companies priced cached input at twenty cents. A real month of 880 customer inquiries now costs $4.40 or $8.45, against $8.80 on Monday.
Google’s Gemini reached three real companies during a security test. In two of them it did not exploit anything: it searched the company name, found working credentials sitting in a public repository, and logged in. Two free checks find the same exposure at your own business, and the second one is already running.
Every outlet reported Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash at $0.15 per million input tokens. That is the cheapest cell on a rate card with five of them. Audio, the reason a small business would want this model at all, bills at $3.81. A real month of phone calls costs about ten times the headline, and still under $13.
Detectives Siro Ferreira-Nunes and Kate Spader work Oldtown, where the bodies come back stripped of their implants. Anna Mocikat’s complete Neon Nights trilogy is now one 20-hour Audible listen, narrated by Garrett Kiesel and Cari Favole.
New research says 70% of small business owners feel confident with AI but only 48% use it regularly. The most-quoted breakdowns underneath are shares of that 48%, not of all firms, and the study was co-produced by a vendor selling the fix.
It cannot produce a single word. What it can do is look at every quote, inquiry and appointment you have and tell you which one is about to slip away, for about twenty cents a month across ten thousand decisions.
