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Vertex AI Pricing: Gemini Rates and Two Monthly Budgets

Current Gemini token rates on Google Cloud, batch and caching costs, Developer API differences, and two worked monthly budgets.

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Latest articlesWhat shipped, what broke, and what it really cost — from running production AI systems.

How to Use Claude Skills

Enable Claude Skills, upload a custom SKILL.md, share it with your team and reuse it in Claude Code, with a worked proposal checklist.Oct 20, 2026AI

Is DeepSeek Safe? A Workplace Guide to Data, Hosting and the US Ban

Decide whether staff may use DeepSeek: hosted app and API privacy, independent hosting, the US federal restriction, and rules by data type.Oct 20, 2026AI

Claude Enterprise: What IT Gets Beyond Team

What Claude Enterprise adds to Team: identity, audit, retention, usage and connector controls, plus when to upgrade and what to ask sales.

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AI Governance: A One-Page Framework for Small Companies

A one-page AI governance framework for small companies, with owners, customer-review evidence, NIST, ISO 42001 and current EU AI Act dates.Oct 20, 2026AI

Opus Clip Alternatives 2026: Descript, Riverside, Vizard, Submagic and Klap (Compared)

Compare Descript, Riverside, Vizard, Submagic and Klap for weekly webinar clips, with verified source limits, captions, branding and team access.Oct 20, 2026Business

NotebookLM vs ChatGPT

Compare NotebookLM and ChatGPT Projects for client research, onboarding, meeting prep and reports, with verified limits and sharing rules.Oct 20, 2026AI

Cheapest LLM API 2026: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Mistral, xAI and Groq Compared

Compare OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Mistral, xAI and Groq API prices, with caching, Batch and costs for three common jobs.Oct 20, 2026Build

Gamma AI Review

Gamma reviewed for weekly decks, documents and sites: brand control, fine editing, PowerPoint and Google Slides exports, and AI credits.Oct 19, 2026Design

AI Acceptable Use Policy: A One-Page Template for Small Business

Copy a one-page AI acceptable use policy covering approved accounts, customer data, human review and disclosure, then roll it out in one team meeting.Oct 19, 2026AI

Best AI for Data Analysis in 2026: ChatGPT, Claude, Julius AI, Gemini and Copilot (Compared)

Compare ChatGPT, Claude, Julius AI, Gemini and Copilot for CSVs, spreadsheets and reports, with maker-sourced file limits and data policies.Oct 19, 2026AI

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Cursor Cloud Agents May 2026: 2 gaps it still can't close

Cursor's May 13 release moves cloud agent environments from demo infra to production tooling. The release is real, the numbers are real, and the SERP is reading it wrong. This piece argues the real choice isn't managed-versus-DIY, it is…May 14, 2026AI

Claude for Small Business: What It Kills in a $50K Stack

On May 13 Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business, a Cowork add-on with eight native connectors and fifteen ready-to-run agentic workflows priced at zero incremental cost on top of an existing Claude license. This piece is the…May 14, 2026AI

Cloudflare's '100x engineer', a 6-agent operator's take

Matthew Prince cited 2x-100x AI productivity gains to justify 1,100 layoffs. I run 6 production agents on the exact stack he's describing. The 100x engineer framing is conceptually wrong, and founders copying it into H2 headcount plans are about to cut the wrong people.May 12, 2026Business

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