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AI in Business OpenAI halved what its $200 plan gives you, and your AI bill is next The AI plan you bought at a flat rate is a subsidy, and subsidies get repriced October 8, 20264 minute read
AI in Business Slop grenades are the AI cost nobody put in the budget, and one rule defuses them Unchecked AI output moves the work from the sender to the reader October 8, 20265 minute read
AI Tools and Reviews Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna cost the same, so your checking time is the real price Two small AI models now list at identical prices October 8, 20264 minute read
AI Policy in Canada Only 5% of firms have agent controls in place, so write the policy before the pilot Most firms plan to give AI agents more freedom than their controls can hold October 7, 20264 minute read
OpenAI halved what its $200 plan gives you, and your AI bill is next The AI plan you bought at a flat rate is a subsidy, and subsidies get repriced byDavid OkaforOctober 8, 2026
Slop grenades are the AI cost nobody put in the budget, and one rule defuses them Unchecked AI output moves the work from the sender to the reader byHarper SinghOctober 8, 2026
Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna cost the same, so your checking time is the real price Two small AI models now list at identical prices byPriya ChenOctober 8, 2026
Only 5% of firms have agent controls in place, so write the policy before the pilot Most firms plan to give AI agents more freedom than their controls can hold byMarcus LaporteOctober 7, 2026
AI in Business OpenAI halved what its $200 plan gives you, and your AI bill is next The AI plan you bought at a flat rate is a subsidy, and subsidies get repriced byDavid OkaforOctober 8, 2026
AI in Business Slop grenades are the AI cost nobody put in the budget, and one rule defuses them Unchecked AI output moves the work from the sender to the reader byHarper SinghOctober 8, 2026
AI Tools and Reviews Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna cost the same, so your checking time is the real price Two small AI models now list at identical prices byPriya ChenOctober 8, 2026
AI Policy in Canada Only 5% of firms have agent controls in place, so write the policy before the pilot Most firms plan to give AI agents more freedom than their controls can hold October 7, 2026
Practical AI Tips Claude now sits inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, so set the rules first An assistant that edits your shared files is a rollout, not a download October 7, 2026
AI Tools and Reviews Mistral Large 4 Gives Canadian Teams a European Open-Weight Option With Fine Print Mistral Large 4 launched in public preview on 6 October with a 1 million token October 7, 2026
AI Policy in Canada OpenAI Is Watermarking ChatGPT Text in the EU and Canada Is Outside the Rule OpenAI is adding an invisible textGrain watermark to ChatGPT and Codex text in October 6, 2026
AI in Business ChatGPT Image Ads Are a Test Your Brand Should Watch, Not Buy OpenAI will test visual ads beside ChatGPT image results in the US later in October 6, 2026
AI Tools and Reviews Reflection AI’s Beam is an open model with an efficiency pitch, but you can’t download it yet Reflection AI's first model, Beam, claims to match a Chinese rival at a fraction October 6, 2026
AI in Business StatCan’s AI numbers end here, and firms of 5 to 19 plan least Statistics Canada's final Business Conditions survey puts planned AI use at October 5, 2026
AI in Business An OpenAI safety writer quit, and the useful response is a Monday checklist for your own vendors An OpenAI safety writer resigned and published an essay calling its culture October 5, 2026
AI in Business Robots can do 74% of physical tasks, but the number for your budget is 0.3% Anthropic says robots could do 34% of US working hours but beat wages on 0 October 3, 2026
AI in Business Two studies disagree about junior hires, and the answer is in your task list Stanford and Ramp point opposite ways on entry-level hiring October 3, 2026
AI Tools and Reviews The 48% who took an AI avatar for a person never wondered Tavus says 48% of testers took its AI avatar for a person October 3, 2026
Practical AI Tips Vibe-coded business tools die at the handoff, and six habits keep them running Vibe coding business tools takes an afternoon October 2, 2026
AI Policy in Canada The FTC probe of AI labs matters most for the auditors your vendor paperwork relies on The FTC is reportedly investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and the evaluator METR October 2, 2026
AI in Business Anthropic’s $42 billion loss is mostly paper, and the $414 billion it cannot cancel is the real number The Anthropic IPO filing, as reported by Reuters, leads with a $42 billion loss October 1, 2026
AI Policy in Canada The ChatGPT privacy findings carry no fine, so treat them as a checklist Canada's privacy regulators found OpenAI fell short on consent and retention, October 1, 2026
AI Tools and Reviews Gemini 4 Argon matches its rivals on price, but only while the introductory rate lasts Google's Gemini 4 Argon launches at the same $2 and $10 as its rivals, but the October 1, 2026
AI News Briefs Meta’s Muse is free in Canada and OpenAI’s dots reaches 4,000 apps, so set the rules first Meta Muse for small business is free and live in Canada, and OpenAI dots September 30, 2026
Practical AI Tips Google’s 17 November Gems deadline is for personal accounts, so test your work Gems before you panic The 17 November date in the headlines applies to personal accounts September 29, 2026
Practical AI Tips Microsoft’s new Copilot arrives with a meter attached, so set the spending cap before you switch anything on The headline is three new Copilot tools September 28, 2026
