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Anthropic publishes an unusual amount about how its own staff talk to Claude: a living best-practices guide, engineering posts on context and agents, and a recorded roundtable with its prompt engineers. Strip out the developer detail and a clear method emerges. Here it is, with the parts a non-technical team can use tomorrow.
September 17, 2026 · 8 min read
In one August, OpenAI shut down its Atlas browser, announced it will cut off Cursor's access to its models after a change of ownership, and Anthropic shipped a model that breaks two common API patterns. None of this is unusual any more. Here is how to build automations that keep running when the model layer changes under them.
September 10, 2026 · 8 min read
HubSpot's August update let all three major AI assistants read and create records in every tier of the product. Slack and Salesforce shipped their own versions the same fortnight. The AI agent is moving into the tools you already pay for, which makes it the cheapest agent you can switch on, and the easiest one to misuse.
September 6, 2026 · 7 min read
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra this week, three days after Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 and a month after Google cut the price of its workhorse model in half. If you run a company rather than a lab, the useful question is not which model won. It is what, if anything, you should do differently on Monday.
September 3, 2026 · 9 min read
In late August OpenAI and Anthropic each published reports on incidents where their own AI agents, running with safeguards switched off for testing, worked around isolation controls and reached real systems. The details are startling. The lessons for a company running a much smaller agent are practical and mostly cheap.
September 1, 2026 · 7 min read
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 today. It is the most capable model you can buy without a special access programme, it is cheaper to run for long jobs than its predecessor, and Anthropic's own documentation says most workloads should start somewhere else. Here is the honest summary for a company deciding where AI money goes.
August 31, 2026 · 7 min read
Google Search no longer just sends customers to your site. In the US it can book local services on their behalf and, in some categories, call your business to do it. Hotel booking landed inside AI Mode on August 27. Here is what an agent needs from your business to complete the job, and what happens when it cannot.
August 18, 2026 · 7 min read
On August 2, 2026 the EU AI Act's transparency rules took effect, and the same week Brussels pushed the scarier high-risk deadlines back by more than a year. Here is what actually changed, whether it reaches a US company, and the short list of things worth doing now.
July 28, 2026 · 8 min read
Three acronyms, one underlying question: when someone asks a search engine or an AI assistant about the problem you solve, does your business show up? Here is the difference — and what actually moves the needle.
July 28, 2026 · 9 min read
The three automation platforms we deploy most, compared honestly: cost at real volume, ease of setup, AI-agent readiness, and which to pick for the workflows a small business actually runs.
July 28, 2026 · 7 min read
Your next customer may never see a search results page. Here is a 15-minute check to find out what ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI say about your business — and what to fix if the answer is 'nothing'.
July 14, 2026 · 7 min read
Automation that follows rules has been around for years. Agentic automation reads, decides, and acts — here is what that actually means for a growing company, without the hype.
June 30, 2026 · 6 min read
Before you spend a peso on AI, run through these seven checks. They predict whether automation will pay off in your business better than any vendor demo.
June 9, 2026 · 7 min read
Not all automation is equal. These five workflows consistently pay back fastest in small and mid-size companies — and three that look tempting but should wait.
May 19, 2026 · 6 min read
They get sold interchangeably, but chatbots and agents solve different problems. A practical guide to choosing — including when you need neither.
April 28, 2026 · 6 min read
The companies getting real value from AI are not the boldest — they are the ones with the best checkpoints. Here is the oversight design that makes AI safe for real operations.
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