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Original analysis on AI, digital marketing, and technology for small businesses
New laws, settlements, and platform rules that change how small businesses market, hire, and use AI, from EU AI Act disclosure rules to click-to-cancel and worker classification. We explain who is covered and what to change. Not legal advice.
TikTok settled with Alabama for at least $100 million and agreed to cap teen screen time at two hours. If your audience skews young, your reach assumptions just aged.
California settled with Lyft for $272.5 million over driver misclassification covering 2016-2020. The same test applies to the contractors in your small business.
Washington may extend its unpublished AI evaluation framework to open-weight models. The rule is voluntary, but it will reach small agencies through client procurement forms long before it reaches any statute. What to fix now.
New York City’s click-to-cancel rule takes effect October 1, 2026, and the city is shipping the complaint app on the same day. Fines start at $525, phone-only cancellation is out, and jurisdiction follows the customer, not your office.
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.
EU AI transparency rules took effect August 2, Google’s own watermarks failed to flag its own fakes, and NV Energy is suing a data center developer over who pays for AI’s electricity. Three stories, one bill headed your way.
The EU AI Act transparency rules took effect August 2. Why US small businesses should build AI disclosure into their marketing now instead of later.
