Weekly AI Highlights: August 1-7, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner The college tours continue…this week we are in Boston. If you’ve done this, you know the routine. The information session. The walk backward across the quad by a student guide. And on almost every single tour we heard “we have x number of clubs, but if you don’t see one you like, start your own! In fact, we even have a cheese club!” Seriously, we went on three tours this week and every...
11 days ago • 7 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: July 25-31, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner I am on Sullivan's Island right now, squeezing everything I can out of what is left of summer. #deliberatelyNotAIstuff I snapped this selfie at my favorite spot on the island. It’s a tidal creek where we put in our kayaks, but even when I'm not kayaking it’s one of the first places I visit when I get to the island. It’s so beautiful and peaceful and just a great way to set the tone for the...
18 days ago • 7 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: July 18-24, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner My deliberate “no AI” activity this week was sitting front row at a Gillian Welch concert. Perfect venue (Cain Park), on a perfect summer evening. AI will NEVER, EVER, replace live music! 🤘 It was a big week in AI… Claude can now watch you do a task and turn it into a skill it runs again on its own. Google gave Gemini Notebook a real way to sort the pile of notebooks you have been avoiding....
25 days ago • 6 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: July 11-17, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner This week’s deliberately AI-less activity was a trip to New York City with my youngest to look at colleges. We met up with her big brother who lives here in the city. We also went to see The Great Gatsby on Broadway. One thing I noticed, though, was that almost every subway car we rode in was sponsored by Genspark.ai. That’s a platform I really like and have been surprised that it hasn’t...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: July 4 - 10, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner Deliberately non-AI activities this week included sitting on the porch, watching this heron eat either a lizard, or an alligator hatchling. Now, on to the news you can use… OpenAI did not have a normal week. They packed about a year of news into one overnight drop. Three brand new models. A new agent that does the actual work for you, not just the answering. And a voice upgrade that finally...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: June 27 - July 3, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner I’ve said this before but the more immersed I am in AI, the more I feel a need to connect in real life with real people. This week I hosted a mahjong class at my home, and I had so much fun. I was completely lost the whole time…but it was fun! To everyone celebrating the Fourth of July tomorrow, enjoy! Hopefully the weather will cooperate and you can spend the day enjoying good food,...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: June 20 - 26, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner Last week I was in New York City, and I spent way too long inside Meta's pop-up lab testing their newest display glasses. These are the ones where your phone screen seems to float in the air in front of you, and you control it by pinching and rubbing your fingers together. I was sold enough to buy a pair on the spot, then I returned them four days later. They cannot do progressive lenses...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: June 13 - 19, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner I spent this past week in New York onboarding a new client, catching up with a few friends, hanging out with my family, and witnessing a whole city losing its mind over the Knicks. They won their first title in 53 years, and yesterday's parade turned Manhattan into one giant block party. What a week to be here. Hello from Central Park Here is the AI story I could not stop thinking about....
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: June 6 - 12, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner Reader, When Claude released Fable (Mythos) last Tuesday, I texted my son, Jake, to see if he’d tried it yet. He’s been using Claude a lot these days so I wanted to get his take. Here’s the exchange: Then he followed up with a phone call on Tuesday to share with me exactly how he was using it and how impressed he was. He’s not one for hype, but he was as excited as ever seen him. He is not...
2 months ago • 7 min read