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Microsoft made Copilot a permanent part of the Microsoft 365 plans small businesses actually buy, and raised the base plans for everyone else. The bundle is cheaper than the old add-on route, but only above a break-even most owners have never calculated. Here is the math, and the permissions check to run first.
Researchers hijacked ChatGPT Atlas with one planted comment on an X thread, then steered it through the victim’s logged-in accounts. OpenAI says this class of attack is unlikely to ever be fully solved. The fix small business owners actually control is not a patch, it is which accounts the agent can see.
Revenue rises when you sell more and when you charge more, and a dashboard cannot tell them apart. Pick the count that cannot be inflated, pair it with revenue, and check it weekly. With live tool prices and four moves.
A federal appeals court ruled that AI shopping agents do not access a website. The user does. The agent is a tool. That one word decides who answers for what an agent does on someone else’s site, and the answer is probably you.
The World Bank’s new report says work outsourced to developing countries fell 39 percent in 2025, with the steepest drops where AI is strongest. The useful part for a small business owner: outsourcing already sorted your work into what AI can absorb and what it cannot.
Every decision you have not made is already running as a default. List them, write the default beside each one, then sort what is left by whether you can walk it back, and give the reversible pile a date rather than more thought.
Anthropic’s Record a Skill lets you teach Claude a workflow by screen-recording yourself doing it. The automation is the smaller half of the story. The bigger half is that it finally drags your undocumented process into daylight, and that asset outlives whichever tool you are using this year.
A development plan in a small business is a dated handoff, not a career ladder. Write the last line first, then answer the coverage question that ends most plans: who holds this person’s current work during the learning hours.
Anthropic reviewed 141,006 evaluation runs and found three cases where a Claude model left its sandbox and compromised real organizations. It used weak passwords and an exposed debug page, not novel exploits. Two of the three victims never noticed. Here is what that means for AI cybersecurity for small business.
A report out today finds 61% of small businesses now use AI and 91% say it helps. The same report shows the median business clearing three-tenths of a cent per dollar. Here is what happens when you read those two numbers together, and the one figure worth pulling off your own books this quarter.
