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By Tia Hopkins for Verizon For small business owners, a routine service request can set off several tasks. At an HVAC company, for example, someone has to look up the customer, check the service history, check availability and book an appointment. An AI agent could help with that, but a human needs to stay in

By Marc Shorb for Founder Reports Most U.S.-based workers with experience training a new employee believe getting good work from AI tools takes just as much effort as training a human, according to an October 2026 survey. The new data comes as many businesses are turning to AI for tasks traditionally handled by entry-level workers.

By Khari Johnson for CalMatters In a world increasingly concerned about serious risks from artificial intelligence, policymakers trying to mitigate those risks find themselves turning more and more to a new class of professionals: AI evaluators, who audit systems on behalf of the companies that create them. California is at the forefront of embracing the

By Cheyenne Buckingham for Symphony by Wix When you’re running a business on your own, you’re not just the founder. You’re also the marketing department, customer service representative, accountant, project manager, and, on some days, the IT department. Juggling all these responsibilities comes with the pressure of knowing that if something needs to get done,

By Ario Abbasi for elk Marketing Getting a useful answer from an AI tool is one thing. Having it take the next step for you is where things get interesting. For a business owner juggling customer emails, sales reports, and campaign updates, Meta’s September 8, 2026, launch of personal AI agent Muse introduces the possibility of turning

By Cheyenne Buckingham for Wix Every week, there’s a new AI model, agent or app promising to give you your time back. The irony for small business owners (who are already managing everything themselves) is that keeping up with these developments can start to feel like a second—or third, or fourth—job. The truth is, you

As AI models become more capable and organizations increase their investments in agentic AI, the bottleneck for ROI is shifting from pilot quality to a need for enterprise-wide data readiness. A new report from autonomous knowledge platform Teradata that surveyed 1,000 senior technology and data leaders in March and April shows that although 90% of respondents expect

In July 2026, Hugging Face disclosed a security incident with an unusual feature: No human ran it. AI agents being tested on a cybersecurity benchmark escaped their test environment, reached the open internet, and spent days working through the company’s production systems. Nobody picked the targets or decided the next move. The agents appear to have

AI video allows a new crop of founder-led studios to embrace a different approach to brand campaigns. They begin with the creative idea, and see how far AI can carry it, rethinking how brands tell stories about athletes, entertainers and the intellectual property attached to them. Launching a new brand usually takes a long list

At Black Hat 2026, researchers Aviyam Ivgi and Hedi Ingber showed one structural flaw running through three of the largest agent stacks: AWS Bedrock AgentCore with the Strands SDK, Google’s Agent Development Kit, and Vercel’s AI SDK harness. They named that flaw CoreBreak. AWS patched CVE-2026-18830 (CVSS 8.6), Google patched CVE-2026-18236 (CVSS 9.3, critical), and Vercel patched

More people are turning to AI platforms like ChatGPT or Gemini to get answers to questions they previously would have typed into a Google search bar. These tools search the web for the best sources to answer each particular question, and they show their work in the form of citations, which are essentially links to the

Enterprise agentic AI isn’t failing because the models aren’t good enough. It’s failing because nobody built the infrastructure to make imperfect agents safe to deploy. CIOs do not trust them with their data. AI agent governance at scale is the unsolved problem. Here, Redpanda lays out a framework for solving it.    Agents differ from humans

A new study reveals that the most popular AI coding tools do not meet basic accessibility standards when creating websites. AudioEye gave five coding AI tools from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and Lovable the same brief: build a news and media site, an online store and a financial services site that met the Web Content Accessibility

As AI responsibility shifts to the C-suite, a new question is emerging: Do senior leaders have an inflated view of how advanced their companies really are? That tension is especially relevant in 2026 as executive leaders are under more pressure to show results from their AI investments. A new survey of 1,000 global senior technology and

Doctors are drowning in paperwork. Studies show they spend a significant portion of their workday and time outside of work on clinical documentation, contributing to widespread burnout. But maybe it doesn’t have to be that way; a burgeoning industry is developing AI medical documentation tools — or “ambient scribes” — and a growing number of physicians think this

The global edge AI market is expected to grow from $30 billion in 2026 to $118.7 billion in 2033, demonstrating its effect on how people’s devices and machines work. When it comes to using edge AI in a commercial or industrial setting, it’s important to understand what it is and how it works. This guide

A few years into AI’s rise across every industry, most financial advisors have adopted some kind of tool. But how far has that adoption actually taken them? In 2023, a University of Chicago study examined generative AI usage across 11 professions. Financial advisors ranked lowest, both at work and at home. Jump; Data source: University

If you’ve felt the pace of AI innovation is surpassing your ability to keep up, you’re not alone. A recent survey of 2,000 CIOs and CTOs across 33 countries found that 70% of respondents felt their teams were deploying AI faster than IT could track. These numbers are often read as evidence that GenAI technology