AI News & Guides
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Today in AI (September 15, 2026): Salesforce Ships a CRM Brain, Microsoft Writes Rules, OpenAI Funds Health Data
Salesforce and NVIDIA launch Koa, a CRM reasoning model for Agentforce. Microsoft AI opens a draft Humanist Code of Conduct for public comment. OpenAI Foundation funds open health data, including $40M for UNC cancer-vaccine research.
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How to Have Grok Bot Triage Your Appliance Repair Calls for You (Step-by-Step)
Hire an Appliance Repair Triage Clerk. Washer floods, no-cool fridges, gas-smell ovens, dryers, dishwashers. Drafts only. You send.
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How to Have Grok Bot Triage Your Garage Door Calls for You (Step-by-Step)
Hire a Garage Door Triage Clerk. Stuck open, stuck closed, broken springs, remotes, openers, commercial WOs. Drafts only. You send.
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Can Your Laptop Read Your Paperwork? Small Local AI Models for PDFs, Scans, and Screenshots
Small local vision models like Qwen3-VL can read PDFs, receipts, scans, and screenshots entirely on your laptop. What to install, what it handles, and where it fails.
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What Do AI Agents at Work Actually Buy a Small Team? An Honest Breakdown
Agentic AI for small teams, explained honestly: what agent orchestration actually buys you, what it really costs, and the one-workflow way to start.
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What Is OpenCode? The Free, Open-Source Rival to Claude Code, Explained
OpenCode is a free, MIT-licensed terminal coding agent with over 200,000 GitHub stars. Here’s what the open-source rival to Claude Code does, what it costs, and who should use it.
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Today in AI (September 13, 2026): Pace the Frontier, Skip the IPO, Open the Stack
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei asks labs to pace the frontier; Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back him. Altman says a 2026 OpenAI IPO would be ill-advised. Xi pitches a BRICS open-source AI community.
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How to Have Grok Bot Triage Your Locksmith Lockout Texts for You (Step-by-Step)
Hire a Lockout Triage Clerk. Home lockouts, car lockouts, broken keys, rekeys, smart locks, PM work orders. Drafts only. You send.
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How to Spot AI Slop: A Field Guide to Machine-Made Content
AI slop is flooding feeds, search, and YouTube. Here’s a practical field guide to spotting machine-generated text, images, and video — and the honest limits of every detection trick.
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