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Google Gemini Gave Hikers Dangerously Bad Advice—Here's What You Need to Know A group of hikers in California had to be rescued after following meal planning advice from Google's Gemini AI chatbot. The sheriff's office reported that Gemini recommended they bring significantly less
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Best AI Tools for Health and Wellness Businesses in 2026 If you run a yoga studio, massage practice, personal training business, nutrition coaching service, or any other health and wellness operation, AI tools have quietly become genuinely useful — not just for tech companies, but for small businesses like yours with
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OpenAI Says the AGI Era Is Here—But What Does That Actually Mean for You? OpenAI announced its new GPT-6 Astra model this week and made a bigger claim alongside it: we're now in the "AGI era." AGI stands for artificial general intelligence—the idea that
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How to Use AI to Research Your Competitors as a Small Business Knowing what your competitors are doing used to require hours of manual digging — tabbing between websites, reading reviews, and taking notes in a spreadsheet that was outdated before you finished it. AI changes that equation pretty significantly, and
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The AI Boom is Making Startup Revenue Less Predictable Than Ever New research reveals that artificial intelligence has fundamentally disrupted how enterprise customers buy software. Startups built their financial models on predictable customer behavior—but the AI era has flipped the script. Companies are now experimenting with dozens of AI
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How to Use AI to Write Thank-You Emails That Bring Customers Back A well-timed thank-you email after a purchase or appointment is one of the cheapest retention tools you have — and most small businesses either skip it entirely or send something so generic it gets deleted in three seconds. AI
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OpenAI's New Reasoning Technique Raises Safety Concerns—Here's What You Need to Know OpenAI is developing a new AI model called Astra that uses an advanced reasoning technique called "recurrent depth." Unlike most AI reasoning systems that follow a step-by-step, sequential approach, this new
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Best AI Tools for E-Commerce Small Businesses in 2026 Running a small online store right now means competing with sellers who have whole teams behind them — and AI is how you close that gap without hiring anyone new. This guide covers the best AI tools for e-commerce small businesses in
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OpenAI's New Astra Model Is Powerful—and Risky. Here's What You Need to Know OpenAI is preparing to release Astra, an advanced AI model that's particularly skilled at analyzing computer systems and identifying security vulnerabilities. The company has publicly discussed the security precautions it&
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How to Use AI to Create a Brand Voice Guide for Your Business If every piece of content your business puts out sounds like it came from a different person, customers notice — even if they can't explain why. A brand voice guide fixes that, and AI makes building
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Major AI Backers Launch Multimillion-Dollar Campaign to Push Data Centers Into Midterm Elections A new group called Build American AI, backed by venture capital giants Andreessen Horowitz and backed by OpenAI's Sam Brockman, is planning to spend millions on political ads in select states ahead of the midterm
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How to Use AI to Handle Common Customer Complaints (Without Losing the Human Touch) Customer complaints don't take days off — but you do. If you're a small business owner fielding the same "where's my order?" and "I want a refund"
