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AI Agents Just Ran Their Own Marketplace—And It Worked Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, created an experimental classified marketplace where artificial intelligence agents acted as both buyers and sellers. The agents negotiated deals, completed transactions, and exchanged real money for real goods—all without human involvement. The experiment
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How to Use AI to Answer Customer Questions on Your Website Your customers are landing on your website at 11pm with a question about your return policy, your service area, or whether you're open on Saturdays — and nobody's there to answer them. An AI chatbot can
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OpenAI CEO Apologizes to Canadian Community Over Security Failure OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued a public apology to residents of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, after his company failed to alert law enforcement about a mass shooting suspect. In a letter to the community, Altman said he was "deeply sorry"
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Best AI Scheduling Tools for Small Service Businesses (2024 Guide) If you run a service business — a salon, cleaning company, massage practice, tutoring service, dog grooming operation — your calendar is basically your cash flow. Every missed booking, double-booking, or back-and-forth text asking "what times work for you?" costs
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Cohere and Aleph Alpha Merge to Build a Stronger AI Company for Regulated Industries Cohere, a Canada-based AI company, announced Friday that it's merging with Aleph Alpha, a German AI startup. The combined company aims to serve businesses and governments in regulated industries—like healthcare, finance, and law—
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How to Automate Customer Follow-Up Emails with AI (Without Sounding Like a Robot) If you're still sending follow-up emails by hand — or worse, forgetting to send them at all — you're leaving money on the table every single week. AI-powered email automation has gotten good enough that
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Noscroll Wants to Free You From Doomscrolling—Here's What It Does A new AI tool called Noscroll is trying to solve a problem that plagues millions: mindless scrolling through news feeds. Instead of you spending hours sifting through social media, Noscroll's AI bot reads the internet
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How to Use AI for Social Media Marketing as a Small Business Owner If you're running a small business and trying to stay consistent on social media while also, you know, actually running your business — AI tools have gotten genuinely useful. Not perfect, not magic, but useful enough
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X's AI-Powered Custom Feeds Are Here—And They Come With New Ad Slots X is rolling out AI-curated custom timelines powered by its Grok chatbot, replacing the platform's Communities feature. The new feeds automatically surface content based on your interests, and X is introducing additional ad
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Best Free AI Tools for Restaurants in 2026 Running a restaurant is already one of the hardest small businesses to keep afloat. AI tools won't fix thin margins or a bad location — but the right free ones can save you real hours every week on tasks that have
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Anthropic's Security Tool Allegedly Breached—Here's What You Need to Know An unauthorized group claims to have gained access to Mythos, a cybersecurity tool developed by Anthropic (the company behind Claude AI). According to a TechCrunch report, Anthropic is investigating the claims but says there'
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How to Use AI to Write Product Descriptions for Small Business Writing product descriptions is one of those tasks that sounds simple until you're staring at your 47th item and your brain has turned to mush. AI can genuinely fix this — not by replacing your voice, but by
