You Do Not Need to Go Viral. The Phone Still Works.
Three operators at TechCrunch Disrupt explained how they won customers without virality: events, cold calls, trained ambassadors, and usage data. The playbook for a local business.
Technology News
News analysis for business owners: what changed in AI, platforms, and the tools your business runs on, and what to do about it this week. Every story is original DMMT analysis that links to the primary sources we used.
Etsy Made AI Disclosure Mandatory. Every Marketplace Is Next.
Etsy now requires AI disclosure in listing descriptions, bans AI-generated patterns and recipes, and demands one unedited photo. What sellers on any marketplace should do now.
OpenAI Stopped Training on the Live Web. Your AI Visibility Just Changed.
OpenAI will train frontier models on cached and simulated copies of the internet instead of the live web. What that shift does to how your business shows up in AI answers.
Microsoft Says Your AI Agents Are Insiders. Treat Them Like New Hires.
Microsoft’s security chief says frontier models cannot be trusted and AI agents should be governed like insiders. Four controls a small business can actually implement this week.
Pennsylvania Now Requires AI Labels on Your Ads. The Deadline Is December 21.
Pennsylvania’s AI Deceptive Advertising Act takes effect December 21, 2026. Who it covers, what the label has to look like, the $3,000 penalty, and the process to build now.
ChatGPT Can Read Every Tab You Have Open. Including the Client’s.
ChatGPT’s Chrome extension can now read across your open tabs and act on them. If you manage multiple clients in one browser, that is a confidentiality problem.
Assume Your AI Is Compromised. Then Build Like It.
Microsoft’s CEO says treat every AI model as already compromised and contain it from the start. Four controls, translated for a business running AI agents.
ChatGPT Now Fingerprints Its Own Writing. Edit Accordingly.
OpenAI is watermarking ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU, with a worldwide API switch. Detection survives copy-paste. Here is what it means for content teams.
Meta’s Scraping Clause Is Gone. Its Crawlers Are Not.
Meta pulled the clause letting it use crawled site content for AI training. Nothing about its crawlers changed. Here is what to actually lock down.
AI Now Hunts Bugs in the Code Your Website Runs On
Anthropic is scanning open-source projects for vulnerabilities with its strongest models, free and without human review. Your patch window just got shorter.