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Does New York's AI Chatbot Law Apply to Your App?
New York's new law bans twelve chatbot features for minors from January 1, 2027, and its definition reaches far past companion apps. Here is who is covered, what is banned, and what the exemptions really require.
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Can You Use Open-Weight AI Models Commercially?
Open weights do not mean open licence. A plain comparison of what DeepSeek, Nvidia, Black Forest Labs, Meta and MiniMax actually let a small business do with the models they released in October 2026.
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Building on Claude? What Changes on November 12
Anthropic's revised Usage Policy takes effect November 12, 2026. For businesses with Claude inside their product, the big change is the human-review and disclosure rule for decisions about people's money, jobs, health and housing.
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Are Claude Code Mods Safe to Install?
Anthropic's new Claude Code mods can rewrite prompts, approve permissions and change what the agent sees. They also run unsandboxed with full access to your machine. What a small dev team should check before installing one.
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Does AI Actually Save Time? Count the Verification Tax
A Google, DeepMind and MIT study found AI saves scientists about 6.9 hours a week, but 46% of them spend over a quarter of that checking its work. How to measure the same trade in your business.
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Should You Block AI Crawlers on Your Site?
Cloudflare's September 15 change split AI crawlers into search, training and agent traffic. Here is which ones to allow, which to block, and why blocking training does not cost you search visibility.
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What Breaks When AI Agents Run for Weeks
Salesforce agents now pursue goals across weeks. Three September 2026 disclosures show what long autonomous runs actually produce, and what oversight you have to build before you ship one.
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Is ChatGPT a Search Engine? The EU Says Yes
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act on August 31, 2026, the first AI chatbot to get that status. What the designation says, what it obliges OpenAI to do, and what it means for your site.
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Can You Run AI Privately on Your Own Mac?
Apple's new M5 Ultra can run models with hundreds of billions of parameters on device. For businesses handling sensitive data, local AI is now a real option worth weighing against cloud APIs.
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Before You Give an AI Assistant Your Inbox
Testers of the Instinct AI assistant found it kept reading a Gmail inbox after access was revoked and stored emails in plain text. Here is what to check before you connect one.
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Your AI Chatbot Now Has to Tell People It Is AI
The EU AI Act's chatbot disclosure rules and California's SB 942 both became enforceable on 2 August 2026. Here is what that means if you run a small business with an AI feature on your site.
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Embracing Challenges: AdSense and Monetization
Monetizing a website is more than dropping ads on a page, SEO, content quality, ad-provider choices, and balancing revenue with user experience all matter.
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Embracing Challenges: GCP and OpenAI vs Vertex AI
Moving from AWS to GCP, and from OpenAI's plug-and-play API to Vertex AI's hands-on platform, what each approach costs you in time, control, and budget.
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From Web to Mobile: Navigating the Challenges and Seizing the Opportunities
Adapting a web project for mobile is more than fitting things on a smaller screen, it's a different way of thinking about UX, performance, and engagement.
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Struggles of React-Native and iOS Mobile Development
React Native promises 'write once, deploy everywhere', but iOS deployment quietly demands you learn Xcode, provisioning, and the App Store review maze.
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iOS: Deploying Your First App to the App Store
Everything first-time developers don't realize about App Store submission, certificates, provisioning profiles, screenshots, privacy policies, and the hidden hurdles.
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Zabbix: Figuring Out the Basics in Monitoring Infrastructure
A practical walkthrough of getting started with Zabbix, from installation to dashboards, triggers, and scaling for large environments.
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