Intuit’s recent partnership with OpenAI marks a significant shift in how small businesses can leverage financial insights. This collaboration aims to integrate Intuit’s robust financial technology with OpenAI’s powerful AI models, creating an unprecedented blend of personalized, actionable financial guidance that can be accessed directly within ChatGPT. The collaboration brings an exciting suite of benefits…

The recent federal shutdown interrupted services critical to small businesses, but the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has now resumed operations, ready to deliver much-needed capital back into the economy. The shutdown, which lasted 43 days, impacted the SBA’s ability to approve loans, costing an estimated $5.3 billion in funding that would have supported over…

An HR payroll program is a software solution that automates the intricacies of employee compensation. It handles tasks like calculating wages, managing tax withholdings, and ensuring compliance with labor laws. By integrating attendance tracking, the program processes payroll based on hours worked or salary agreements, further enhancing accuracy. With features like self-service portals for employees,…

Large language models (LLMs) have astounded the world with their capabilities, yet they remain plagued by unpredictability and hallucinations – confidently outputting incorrect information. In high-stakes domains like finance, medicine or autonomous systems, such unreliability is unacceptable. Enter Lean4, an open-source programming language and interactive theorem prover becoming a key tool to inject rigor and…

In a significant move that makes car buying easier for consumers, Amazon has partnered with Ford to offer certified pre-owned vehicles through its Amazon Autos platform. This new service allows customers to browse, finance, and purchase thousands of vehicles from Ford dealers—all from the convenience of their home computer or mobile device. For small business…

Researchers at Google have developed a new AI paradigm aimed at solving one of the biggest limitations in today’s large language models: their inability to learn or update their knowledge after training. The paradigm, called Nested Learning, reframes a model and its training not as a single process, but as a system of nested, multi-level…

Salesforce launched a suite of monitoring tools on Thursday designed to solve what has become one of the thorniest problems in corporate artificial intelligence: Once companies deploy AI agents to handle real customer interactions, they often have no idea how those agents are making decisions. The new capabilities, built into Salesforce's Agentforce 360 Platform, give…

OpenAI has sent out emails notifying API customers that its chatgpt-4o-latest model will be retired from the developer platform in mid-February 2026,. Access to the model is scheduled to end on February 16, 2026, creating a roughly three-month transition period for remaining applications still built on GPT-4o. An OpenAI spokesperson emphasized that this timeline applies…

Creating a monthly social media calendar is vital for streamlining your content strategy and maximizing engagement. By comprehending your audience’s demographics, you can select the right platforms and tailor your content effectively. Planning content themes in advance allows for a consistent posting schedule, whereas incorporating flexibility helps you stay relevant with trends. There are several…

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) hopes to take advantage of an increased demand for customized models and enterprises seeking more transparency from AI models with its latest release. Ai2 made the latest addition to its Olmo family of large language models available to organizations, continuing to focus on openness and customization.  Olmo 3 has…