Weekly AI Highlights: January 17 - 23, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner Reader, If you are in a part of the world that is about to be smacked by this winter storm, I hope you are reading this from somewhere warm and cozy. Here in Cleveland, it always feels arctic this time of year so I’m not sure I’ll even notice. This week AI has had some exciting developments: ChatGPT added an $8 monthly option, Google added “personal intelligence” and Adobe turns your...
11 days ago • 4 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: January 10 - 16, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner Reader, this week’s AI updates are all about moving faster with less friction. Claude’s new Cowork feature shifts from one-off prompts to fully delegated tasks, giving you a real partner for research, writing, and planning. Manus rolled out a Meeting Minutes tool that captures in-person conversations and turns them into action items instantly. And Google Veo now converts portrait images...
19 days ago • 6 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: January 3 - 9, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner Reader, this was one of those weeks that the news was so bad out in the world, I welcomed the distraction of AI news. OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Health, designed to help you prepare for doctor visits, understand symptoms, and navigate health info with better context and guardrails. Gmail’s new AI-powered inbox promises smarter prioritization so you don’t miss what matters, and Amazon’s...
25 days ago • 5 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: December 20, 2025 - January 2, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner Reader, Happy New Year! 🎉 I hope your 2026 is off to a strong, energized start. Or a gentle, quiet, lazy-ish start. Personally, I completely unplugged for almost two weeks and it was heavenly. Whether you’re easing back into work or hitting the ground running, this week’s AI updates offer a glimpse of what’s coming in the year ahead—and it’s clear that 2026 will be all...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: December 13–19, 2025 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner Reader, stay ahead of the curve—three major AI breakthroughs happened this week that will directly impact how you work. This week, OpenAI released GPT Image 1.5—finally bringing professional-grade image generation to real business workflows. ChatGPT also launched its built-in App Store, along with tools for developers to build, share, and monetize specialized apps directly inside the...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader, We’ve been busy bees over here processing all the latest updates in the world of AI and ofcourse juuust after we made the final changes to this newsletter, OpenAI decided to keep us on our toes and announce the release of ChatGPT 5.2. I’ll fill you in down below…. Big News of the Week ChatGPT just dropped v. 5.2 So what actually changes with ChatGPT 5.2?It just got released yesterday, so I haven’t time to play with it. According to my research, Here’s the short version of what...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
Hi Reader, This week was actually a pretty slow week in AI, which honestly I was thankful for. After the tsunami of AI updates the previous week, I needed the break. But yesterday, Google launched Workspace Studio, a suite of AI assistants built directly into Docs, Sheets, Gmail, and more — and it’s AMAZING. They work in context, right where you’re typing, so you can brainstorm, summarize, rewrite, and automate without jumping between tools. Meanwhile, Perplexity added memory, letting you...
2 months ago • 6 min read
Hi Reader, Right now the snow is coming down in Cleveland, all my kids are home, the fire is roaring in the fireplace, and all is just right in my world right now. (Eddie is here but somehow got left out of the shot!) I bought Yahtzee, a game none of us have ever played, imagining all of us gathered around the kitchen table like in the commercial…”Yahtzee!” we’d yell. But the instructions look complicated. And everyone is still in their turkey coma and no one wants to figure it out. I think...
2 months ago • 7 min read
Hi Reader, If your Gmail inbox is running you instead of the other way around, you’re going to love this: Google just rolled out a new automation feature called Workspace Flows and it’s built right into Gmail. You can use it to automatically sort emails, respond to inquiries, and even trigger external actions using Gemini. I put together a quick video to show you exactly how to get started here. And in classic timing… just one day after I released a brand new NotebookLM training, Google...
2 months ago • 7 min read