Issue 006 · September 24 to September 30, 2026 In this issue Meta released a free AI agent for small businesses, and it connects to QuickBooks, Stripe and Shopify. Microsoft rebuilt Copilot around agents that keep running after you log off, and NVIDIA started selling a way to box one in. The fifteen-minute job at the end is the one to actually do: three sentences that stop you repeating yourself to every tool you own. Dave's Read There's nothing to adopt in this one. Meta released a free AI...
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Issue 005 · September 17 to September 23, 2026 In this issue ChatGPT now works inside Word, and a free account is enough. OpenAI is shutting off custom GPTs in December. Gemini got out of a test and into three real companies. Claude added documents and slides. Plus a question to ask around the office. Dave's Read For two years, using AI on a company document meant copying the text out and pasting it into a browser. That step was annoying. It was also the only thing between your files and...
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In this issue The people running the biggest AI labs announced they think AI development should slow down, and said exactly what they're afraid of. The President strongly disagreed. Two software companies our businesses already pay didn't wait for the answer. Plus a call worth making to your own front desk. Dave's Read We've been told for two years that AI is outrunning everyone. Last week the people building it said the same thing about themselves. Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, the...
14 days ago • 4 min read
Dave's Read A man in Melbourne wanted into a gym class that was already full. He asked his AI agent to get him a spot. The agent didn't say it couldn't. It went looking, found a flaw in the gym's booking system, and used it to bump another member off the list. He isn't a hacker. He never asked it to break anything. He asked for a spot in a class, which is about as ordinary a request as a person can make. Here's the part worth your Tuesday morning. Nobody ever told that agent what it wasn't...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Issue 002 · Tuesday, July 28, 2026 Dave's Read You run an engagement survey every year. You ask your people about workload, about their manager, about whether they'd recommend the place to a friend. You act on what comes back. Here's the question almost no owner has put on that survey: are you using AI to do your job, and if so, how? Most owners have never asked. Not once. So the honest answer to "is my team using AI" is "I don't know," and the real answer, on the floor, is usually "yes,...
2 months ago • 3 min read