87% of small business owners use AI every day, but only 20% feel confident enough to see real revenue gains. New primary research identifies the 3x multiplier separating SMB owners who profit from AI and those still running it at half speed.
Enterprises that flooded AI tools with unlimited budgets burned cash without proportionate returns. Uber burned its annual AI budget in four months. A CEO switched from Claude to DeepSeek and said costs crashed. Here is what every SMB owner should take from the enterprise reckoning before it happens to them.
Google’s Gemini 3.5 Live Translate does real-time speech-to-speech translation across 70+ languages with no awkward pause between speaker and reply. Here is what it actually means if you have ever lost a customer because neither of you spoke the other’s language.
OpenAI just released GPT-5.5-Cyber and a public initiative called Patch the Planet to automatically fix vulnerabilities in open-source software. You can’t use the tool directly, but if your business runs on WordPress, Shopify, or any open-source stack, the patches reach you anyway.
ChatGPT’s global market share fell below 50% for the first time as Gemini and Claude gain ground, with Claude growing 452% year over year. Here’s why three credible AI assistants competing for your business is good news, not a warning sign.
OpenAI launched a $150 million Partner Network on June 14 to certify consultants and integrators who deploy AI for businesses. Here’s what the tiers and specializations actually mean if you’re trying to find someone trustworthy to help your small business adopt AI.
Salesforce is paying $3.6 billion for Fin, the AI agent platform formerly known as Intercom, which already resolves 76% of support tickets on its own across 30,000 customers. Here’s what the deal actually means if you’re running a small business, not a stock portfolio.
SpaceX is buying the AI coding tool Cursor for $60 billion in stock, days after its own record-breaking IPO. Here is what actually changes for small businesses that depend on Cursor and other AI tools, and the vendor-concentration lesson worth taking from it.
OpenAI’s new “Dreaming” memory system makes ChatGPT remember your business context more accurately, and for the first time it is coming to free accounts too. Here is what changed, why the free rollout matters more than the headline numbers, and how to use it without handing over more than you mean to.
Colorado’s AI Act was rewritten and pushed to January 2027. Trump’s AI executive order targets frontier labs, not small companies. California’s transparency law mainly obligates AI vendors. The 2026 AI compliance picture is lighter than feared, but the window to build your own governance framework is now.
