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Most small business owners don't need more marketing advice, they need to know which channels are actually worth their limited time and budget right now. This guide breaks down local SEO, social media, paid ads, WhatsApp marketing, and AI automation in plain terms, with a clear way to prioritize based on your business type and stage.
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A columnist says Meta's Muse AI agent read more than 187,000 rows of his private iMessages on a Mac while the required permission was switched off. Meta says that's technically impossible. Here is exactly what each side has said, and what remains unresolved.
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Google updated its guidance on generative AI content on October 1, 2026. The update puts more emphasis on accuracy, originality, relevance, human review, and the risk of publishing large amounts of low value AI content. Here is what changed and what website owners should do.
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Meta has added a conversational AI assistant to Edits, Instagram's video editing app, built to analyze a creator's own performance data rather than give generic content advice. Here's what the assistant actually does, how it differs from YouTube's approach to AI editing tools, and what Meta has and hasn't said about pricing and availability.
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Google Search Console now separates multimodal search traffic from traditional web search, revealing how Google Lens, Circle to Search, image uploads, and Chrome image searches send visitors to your website.
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McDonald's is increasingly using AI to guide menu pricing across the U.S. and some international markets. The system estimates what customers at individual restaurants may be willing to pay and recommends prices, while franchisees retain the final decision. Here's what the technology actually does, what it doesn't mean, and why AI-powered pricing is becoming a bigger business issue.
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DeepSeek has partnered with Huawei to open-source programming infrastructure for Huawei's Ascend AI chips, including TileLang and related compute and communication libraries. The move is about more than AI chips: it targets the software ecosystem that makes accelerators useful in the first place. Here's what DeepSeek and Huawei are building, how TileLang fits in, and why NVIDIA's CUDA advantage is so difficult to challenge.
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At its DevDay 2026 keynote, OpenAI introduced dots, an always-on AI agent designed to keep working on tasks in the background rather than only responding when prompted. Here is what OpenAI has officially confirmed about how dots work, what they can and cannot do, and what remains unclear.
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Searches for whether AI could kill humans have surged as researchers from major AI labs warn about the risks of increasingly capable and potentially self improving systems. But what does that actually mean, how close are today's AI systems to that scenario, and what are AI companies doing about it? Here is what is known, what researchers are warning about, and what remains uncertain.
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Google Search Console now reports traffic from image-based searches including Google Lens, Circle to Search, image uploads, and Search this image. Here is what the new data means for SEO.
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Recursive self improvement in AI explained: what it means, what AI systems can do today, why researchers are studying it, and what remains uncertain.
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In the span of one week, three different companies launched wearable AI devices built to listen to your life and talk back, a keychain, a pendant, and a badge that acts like a digital friend. Nobody's calling this a category yet, but it already has a name floating around: AI Tamagotchis. Here's what's actually going on, and why the last time companies tried this, it flopped hard.
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