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Plain-English briefings on AI for business
When an AI story matters to small businesses, we explain it without the hype — what happened, what it means for you, and what’s worth doing about it. Written in Horsham, read anywhere.
Google just put another AI tool inside your business
Google Pics is rolling into Workspace as a new AI image creation and editing tool. Useful, certainly — but it is also a good example of how shadow AI can arrive through software a business has already approved. Five checks to make before people start feeding it company material.
Three AI services switch off this month — and nobody emailed you
Three AI services stop working before the end of August and a much bigger group follows in October. The names mean nothing to most businesses, which is the problem — they are the engines underneath tools sold under friendlier names. One email to whoever built yours.
AI just got 80% cheaper — but probably not for you
OpenAI cut one of its model prices by 80% three weeks after launching it. That is a genuine cut — to the metered wholesale rate a developer pays, not to the per-seat licence most firms actually buy. What changed, what didn’t, and when renting is still the right call.
The AI didn’t escape. The fence wasn’t there.
Anthropic says three Claude models broke into the real systems of three companies during safety testing. The headlines went with “AI escapes”. What actually happened is duller, and far more useful to a business about to be sold an AI that acts rather than answers.
The AI deadline on Sunday — and why you probably think it was cancelled
Europe's AI rules were delayed — except the transparency layer, which starts on 2 August. What Article 50 asks for, whether a UK business is caught by it, and the short piece of admin that answers it.
The rogue AI had an owner — and a detail nearly everyone missed
We now know whose models broke into Hugging Face. But the part worth your time is what happened next: the defenders' own AI refused to help them clean up. What that does and doesn't mean for a normal business.
The AI chats that turned up on Google — what actually happened
Shared AI conversations became findable in search results this weekend. Not a hack — a share button. What it means for anyone whose team uses AI, and the one line your policy is probably missing.
The AI that broke out of its box — what actually happened
An AI “went rogue” and hacked another company. It isn't science fiction — but it isn't quite what the headlines suggest, either. The plain-English version, and the one question worth asking about any AI system.
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