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Cognizant and Anthropic expanded their partnership to embed Claude across Cognizant's platforms. The headline number is 350,000 seats. The useful one for a small business is 8 hours a week.
Microsoft's new security agents act on threats, not just flag them. Here's the vendor question every SMB should ask before any AI agent touches their business.
Vendasta says its autonomous AI Social Media Manager and AI Blogger hit 500+ deployments in 24 hours. What that self-reported number proves, and what to ask before you buy one.
OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna pricing 80% just three weeks after launch. What a cut this fast and this uneven really signals for your AI vendor bill.
OpenAI's rogue test agent also hit a customer at Modal Labs, a platform with no ties to the original target. Here's the vendor due-diligence lesson for small businesses.
OpenAI's new research finds 43.5% of occupation-specific ChatGPT use crosses job lines, and small businesses show more of it than large companies do. Here's where to draw a review line.
Block's new Buzz platform gives AI agents cryptographic identities and permissions. Here's what the shift means for SMBs evaluating AI tools.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 held pricing flat at $5/$25 per million tokens while roughly doubling per-task performance on its coding benchmark. The SMB translation.
Anthropic just connected Claude to its own adoption data. Here's how an SMB owner uses it to check the hype against real numbers before spending on AI.
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