Articles tagged “AI for small business”
25 articles on Comingwave Insights carry this tag. The newest is first.
Claude Haiku 5.5: Anthropic's small AI model gets far cheaper
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on 7 October 2026, a small AI model that costs about 75 per cent less to run than Haiku 4.5. What it means for SMEs.
GPT-6 arrives in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI: a practical brief for SMEs
GPT-6 is rolling out in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, on business and free plans. What OpenAI announced and the checks an Australian SME should make now.
Mistral Large 4 previews as Europe's trillion-parameter open-weight model
Mistral Large 4 entered public preview on 6 October 2026, with weights due by month's end. The price, where it runs and what businesses should check.
Shopify Canvas lets merchants redesign a store by chatting with Sidekick
Shopify launched Canvas on 1 October 2026, a workspace where the Sidekick AI agent rewrites a store's theme. What it does, its limits and who should wait.
California's No Robo Bosses Act is law: AI alone cannot fire or discipline workers
California's SB 947, signed 30 September 2026, bars employers from relying solely on AI to discipline or dismiss staff from 1 July 2027. What to prepare.
AMD to acquire World Labs in US$8.2 billion all-stock AI deal
AMD has agreed to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for about US$8.2 billion in stock. What spatial intelligence is and what the deal means for businesses.
Akamai and Anthropic sign US$11.6 billion, seven-year compute deal
Anthropic has committed US$11.6 billion over seven years for Akamai cloud capacity. The terms, the share warrant and what it means for businesses using AI.
AI CV screening needs real human review, Spain's privacy regulator warns
Spain's AEPD published a warning on 23 September 2026 to a company planning AI CV screening. The safeguards it expects and a checklist for employers.
AI agents at work: permissions, data access and cost for a small business
AI agents now ship inside ChatGPT and Microsoft tools. What UK and Australian cyber agencies say about permissions, data access, cost and first steps.
Gemini 3.8 Live: Google's voice AI can now work while it talks
Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking on 15 September 2026: voice models that carry out tasks in the background while they talk.
Siri AI arrives with iOS 27 and lands on your team's iPhones
Apple released Siri AI in beta with iOS 27 on 14 September 2026. What the assistant can read and do, where it runs, and how to manage it on work devices.
ChatGPT Images 2.5 adds Sketch, templates and more precise edits
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 on 8 September 2026 with Sketch, templates and more precise editing on every plan. What small businesses should check.
AI in trade and customs: what small exporters and importers should do now
A WTO group, a White House report and CargoWise all put AI into trade and customs news. What small exporters and importers can do about it now.
NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for US$12.93 billion and keep it open
NVIDIA has agreed to buy Hugging Face, the open AI model platform, for US$12.93 billion. The terms, the openness pledges and what it means for businesses.
Australia's national AI laws win National Cabinet backing, with data centres first
National Cabinet backed Australia's national AI laws on 26 August 2026, with standards due in early 2027. What is covered and what SMEs should do now.
AI in English tests and language learning: what the latest changes mean for learners and trainers
IELTS is now computer-only in Australia, Pearson has AI practice for PTE, ChatGPT can quiz and converse, and ASQA set AI principles for trainers.
DeepSeek V4 Pro goes live with peak and off-peak AI pricing
DeepSeek V4 Pro left preview on 13 August 2026 with open weights and peak and off-peak API prices. The rates, Australian peak hours and the data question.
Meta Muse Glimmer: an open AI model built to run on a single PC
Meta released Muse Glimmer on 10 August 2026: a 30-billion-parameter open-weights AI model under Apache 2.0 that runs agents on one PC. What it means.
AI CV and job-search tools: what they mean for job seekers and small employers
ChatGPT now tailors resumes, Google lists three AI job-search tools and Indeed paused auto-apply. What AI CV tools mean for job seekers and employers.
WeatherNext Cyclones: Google's AI adds a day of cyclone warning
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext Cyclones, published in Nature on 6 August 2026, gives about a day more cyclone warning. What it means for businesses.
AI in hiring: what this year's new rules and tools mean for employers and recruiters
Colorado's new law, Australian Public Service principles, Indeed's AI sourcing tool and the EU delay: what AI in hiring now asks of employers.
Kimi K3 open weights are out: a near-frontier AI model with its own licence
Moonshot AI published the weights of Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model, on 27 July 2026. The licence, the hardware and the questions to ask.
EU AI Act delay is now law: high-risk rules move to December 2027
The EU's Digital Omnibus on AI took effect on 27 July 2026, moving high-risk AI rules to December 2027. New dates and a checklist for Australian SMEs.
Microsoft MAI models now power AI images in Bing and PowerPoint
Microsoft put MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash into preview and moved Bing, PowerPoint and OneDrive image tools to its own models. What changes.
Chatbot info cards: Singapore sets a transparency template for generative AI
Singapore's IMDA issued voluntary chatbot transparency guidelines on 20 July 2026. What a chatbot info card contains and how a small business can use it.
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