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Google is rolling out a new small-business home page inside the Gemini app, announced October 20, 2026. It puts one connection front and center: your Google Business Profile, the listing people see when they search for your business on Google Search or Maps. Once you connect it, Gemini can change your regular and holiday hours, update your contact info and booking or ordering links, manage food menus and photos, draft or delete review replies, create and publish profile posts and offers, and ...

Anthropic opened a waitlist for Claude Duet, a separate app where Claude works as a proactive agent for professionals and small business owners. It sends a morning brief on your connected apps, checks them every few hours, and can draft unpaid-invoice reminders, prepare payroll, send agreements for signature, and buy supplies. Before it sends a message, makes a payment, signs a document, or deletes anything, it shows you exactly what it's about to do and waits for your approval. Mike and F...

Meta paused the share-link feature in Muse, its AI assistant, after security researchers found more than 6,800 shared Muse chats they could locate through public internet records, including a small-business owner's loan application and a workplace's full-year staff vacation calendar. Mike and Frank explain it in plain English. A share link is a web address an AI tool makes for one conversation so you can send it to someone else; whoever has the address can open it, with no login. Security ...

Yelp announced Smart Lead Reply, an AI agent that answers Request a Quote messages the moment they arrive, asks your questions, sorts real jobs from time wasters, and sends your scheduling link. Yelp says it rolls out in November for $30 a month to service businesses in eligible categories. Mike and Frank explain it in plain English. A quote request on Yelp is a message from a customer describing a job. Qualifying a lead means sorting the real jobs from the time wasters before anybody driv...

If your business has a Facebook Page, runs ads, or uses Meta Business Suite, Meta's updated Commercial Terms and Self-Serve Ad Terms take effect October 30, 2026. They say you authorize Meta, or anyone acting for it, to use automated crawlers on websites associated with your products or services, keep copies, and periodically pull updates. Mike and Frank explain it in plain English. A crawler is a program that visits websites on its own and copies what's on the pages. The first version of ...