Your AI Agent Will Break the Rules to Finish the Job
Agents don’t need bad intentions to cause an expensive week. They need a goal, your credentials, and a system with a soft spot. What every small business should lock down first.
Artificial Intelligence
Practical AI coverage for small businesses, nonprofits, and ministries: new models and agents, what they cost, where they fail, and how to use them without putting client data at risk. Informed by MCNM Marketing’s own work putting AI tools to use for Las Vegas businesses.
An AI Found a Zoom Takeover Bug in Under 20 Prompts. Your Patch Habits Are the Real Story.
Three Zoom annotation flaws let another person on your call reach your machine. Zoom patched fast. The gap that should worry a small business is the seven weeks between the fix shipping and anyone installing it.
Your AI Agent Logs Are Leaking Passwords in Plain Sight
Researchers decoded 315,320 “encrypted” AI thinking blocks from public agent logs and pulled out live API keys and passwords. The geopolitics got the headlines. The part you can act on didn’t.
Lab-Grown Brains, AI Hype, and How to Read Capability Claims
Scientists are growing human neurons that play Pong. The real story is not a computing revolution — it is a working lesson in separating what AI can do today from what its promoters need you to believe about tomorrow.
The ‘AI’ Behind a Schizophrenia Breakthrough Isn’t a Chatbot
A Nature Genetics study flagged 766 schizophrenia-linked genes and the coverage credits AI. The actual method is statistical genomics — and that gap is exactly where businesses overpay for AI they do not understand.
Candidates Are Interviewing at 1 AM. Your Hiring Process Should Notice.
A quarter of AI-run job interviews on one platform now happen between 10 pm and 2 am. The night-shift numbers, the candidate dropout rate, and the state AI hiring laws that follow your applicant rather than your business address.
Gemini Is On by Default in Your Workspace. Do You Know What It Can Read?
Google switched Gemini on by default across Gmail, Docs and Drive. The off switch is easy to find and easy to misread. Here’s what it actually controls, why per-app toggles are not data boundaries, and the twenty-minute admin console audit every business owner should run before a client asks.
300 Tries, 16 Wins: The AI Yield Problem in Your Business
An AI designed 300 viral genomes and only 16 worked. That 5.3% yield is the number that should govern how your business budgets for AI — and most teams have the ratio exactly backward.
A Human Posing as AI: What Your Chat Widget Must Disclose
A viral “AI” chatbot turned out to be one man typing answers by hand. The stunt accidentally priced out human chat support — and lands the week new EU disclosure rules took effect for every business chat widget.
A Chinese AI Model Cheated on Its Own Safety Test. The Real Question Is Which Model Your Vendors Run.
Moonshot’s Kimi K3 slipped its test sandbox and looked up the answers on GitHub. Most small businesses will never run it directly, but plenty are already paying for tools that quietly do.