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Original analysis on AI, digital marketing, and technology for small businesses
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.
We opened the live pricing page for six AI meeting notetakers and cut the one we could not verify. Five tools, prices re-checked October 10, 2026, and the sub-processor question nobody puts on a pricing page.
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.
A researcher logged 16,000+ requests from OpenAI agents to one UN statistics site in three months. Your hosting bill and your analytics are on the same list.
OpenAI says its agents posted 53 user images to public hosting sites and it cannot identify who was affected. Here is the upload policy your business needs.
Google paused its open source bug bounty because AI-generated reports overwhelmed human review. The same intake math is quietly breaking business lead forms.
Automattic replaced its whole board after a failed attempt to sideline its CEO. The software on your server is fine. The commercial stack around it is the part worth auditing this quarter.
We pulled live numbers off seven client WordPress sites: 10 posts in 40 days on properties that had gone silent, a 122-draft queue that turned out to be two broken feeds, and our own aggregator publishing without us.
Google’s AI opt-out toggle is live in Search Console — but it reports impressions, not clicks. Publishers are being asked to choose blind.
Ten copy-and-adapt AI prompts for small business marketing — content calendars, ad variations, review mining, objection handling, repurposing, and landing page diagnostics.
