Weekly AI Highlights: March 7 - March 13, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner Reader, This week felt less like product updates and more like a land grab. Google revamped Gemini across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. Zoom announced an entire AI office suite and those AI avatars we've been hearing about. And Anthropic launched a marketplace for Claude-powered business tools. Every major platform is racing to become the place where your work gets done. Not just...
9 days ago • 4 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: February 28 - March 6, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner Reader, Claude had the kind of week most companies dream about. #1 app in the country. Free memory for everyone. Voice commands for developers. And half the internet is trying to figure out how to move their ChatGPT data over. Meanwhile, OpenAI released an update specifically because users kept complaining that ChatGPT was too preachy and annoying. And then, as I was literally...
15 days ago • 7 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: February 21 - 27, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner Reader, The man in the office next to me, Lou, is 88 years old. Lou told me he was falling in love with me because I showed him how to watch YouTube without commercials.(He spends a good bit of his day scouting Celine Dion type of singers in Europe via YouTube. As a hobby). If only the rest of my week had been so easy! It’s not that it was hard, it was just …clunky. I hosted a free...
22 days ago • 17 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: February 14 - 21, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner Reader, what a week! Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve read Matt Schumer’s “Something Big is Happening” article. It has created such a buzz I had to weigh in. I recorded this podcast episode today but it won’t be promoted until Tuesday. However, you can listen to it here early, because you are a VIP. 🙂 And the week was jam-packed with other big stuff too…. Anthropic made Claude...
29 days ago • 6 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: February 7 - 13, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner Reader, this week feels like a quiet turning point. Chrome is introducing WebMCP, which lets AI agents stop “pretending” to browse like humans and instead interact with websites through structured interfaces. That may sound technical, but it’s a foundational shift in how automation will work on the web. At the same time, Anthropic is speeding up Claude Opus 4.6 while also expanding its...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: January 31 - February 6, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner Reader, this week Anthropic just became even more of a darling, if you ask me. They released Claude Opus 4.6 for deeper, longer work and added plugins to Claude Cowork, moving AI closer to reliable, role-based workflows. At the same time, Anthropic is reinforcing its ad-free stance (and basically giving OpenAI the middle finger in their hilarious new Super Bowl ads.) OpenAI...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Weekly AI Highlights: January 23 - 30, 2026 What Small Business Owners Need to Know Right Now by Jen Lehner Reader, this week’s updates show just how fast AI is moving from “cool sidekick” to “actual co-worker.” Chrome is introducing Gemini-powered Auto-Browse so your browser can take actions for you, not just answer questions. Claude now includes interactive tools you can use directly in chat to analyze files and create content as you go. And Moltbot (previously Clawdbot), a fast-evolving AI...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
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...
about 2 months 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...
2 months ago • 6 min read