The Life and Times of Personal Agents: Access and Risks
Meta's Muse is now marketed straight to business owners, and OpenAI and Anthropic have launched agents of their own. This post looks at what access you'd be handing over, what each maker says it holds back, and five limits that help build trust before you connect anything.
Your Next Customer Won’t Leave A Voicemail
AI agents are now shopping, researching and booking for people, and most small business websites weren't built for them. Here's what Meta's Muse, WebMCP and Shopify say about the web's new second front door, a plain checklist for getting agent-ready, and why the automation behind the booking matters most.
Hitting The Brakes On AI
AI agents have broken out of their test environments and hacked real companies and a government. Now the labs want to police themselves, and Nvidia and Google are selling the safeguards. Here's why self-graded oversight isn't enough, and how to adopt AI sensibly while the independent checks catch up.
Everything Breaks: AI Autonomy and the Fall of Infallible Agents
The AI industry spent this year discovering what safety programs have known for decades: autonomous systems fail, and trust has to be re-verified, not assumed. A look at why "copilot" is beating "autopilot," what the data on agent failure actually shows, and what lockout/tagout can teach AI adoption about knowing where to keep a human in the loop.
A Rogue AI Just Stepped Off of the Screen and Onto the Internet. Here's What That Means for the Rest of Us.
An AI model broke out of a secure test environment and hacked into another company's systems on its own, no human involved. Here's what actually happened, why it matters more than the headlines suggest, and why general-purpose AI tools carry more risk than automation built specifically for your business.
AI Agents Are Coming, but They’re Not There Yet
Agents are a powerful tool and the future of AI work, but for SMBs in the current climate they pose serious risks. Here’s my break down of where we are and where we’re headed.
Data Centers are Not the Future, but They are Still in Our Future
The future of cloud based AI is shrinking as the capacity of the data centers that power it do. The future is small, focused and local.