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Practical AI advice for small and medium enterprises

Together.ai just launched Open Deep Research v2, a free and open-source research app that generates detailed reports with citations using open-source models. For small businesses, that means cheaper competitive research, market analysis, and vendor comparison work.

New research shows AI-assisted code is spreading fast while defect rates rise. For small businesses, the real issue is not just bad code. It is that more teams now ship software nobody truly owns.

AWS is deploying Cerebras CS-3 wafer-scale systems inside its own data centers, bringing dramatically faster AI inference to Amazon Bedrock. For SMBs already building on Bedrock, this is a speed upgrade that requires zero infrastructure changes.

Anthropic just made the 1 million token context window generally available for Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, with no extra charge. For SMBs, that removes one of the last cost barriers to processing entire contracts, codebases, and document libraries in a single API call.

Genspark says AI Workspace 3.0 gives your business a first AI employee with its own cloud computer, persistent state, and app access. For small businesses, that is a meaningful shift from chatbot-style AI.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers near-Opus capability at roughly one-fifth the price, with web search and code execution now generally available. For SMBs, that changes the economics of building AI workflows.

Zendesk bought Forethought to build self-improving AI agents that learn from every ticket without manual retraining. For small businesses, this changes the math on AI customer service.

Shopify’s Liquid engine got a 53% faster parse-and-render benchmark through an AI-driven optimization loop. For SMBs, that is a practical signal that AI code optimization is becoming usable on real legacy systems.

Adobe says its traditional stock business is declining faster than expected while Firefly keeps growing. For SMBs, that is a strong sign AI-generated images have become a real budget-saving option.

Bloomberg says Cursor is discussing a new round at a $50 billion valuation. That is a giant signal that AI coding is no longer a nice-to-have for businesses. It is becoming standard infrastructure.

Google's new Gemini-powered Ask Maps lets customers ask natural language questions to find local businesses. Here's what small business owners need to update before their competitors do.

Meta acqui-hired the creators of Moltbook, the AI-agent-only social network with 2.8 million registered bots. With the team joining Meta's Superintelligence Labs, the age of agent-to-agent commerce just got a corporate backer. Here is what small businesses should be thinking about.

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