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Happy Thursday {{ subscriber.first_name }}! Here is issue #10 of OmbuLabs.ai Weekly. Check out the latest developments in AI, tooling, machine learning, compliance, and security for all your business needs. 🔒 Claude now works inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, in betaAnthropic's add-on puts Claude, its AI assistant, in a sidebar next to your open file, where it can read the document and make edits directly, and it is available on all paid Claude plans. Curious how it would fit your team's daily work? Francois explains what the add-on does and what to settle before rolling it out. |
📅 "Is it safe?" is the one question stopping most small business owners from using AI.Join Fiona & Francois for a free 45-minute webinar on rolling out Claude in your business the right way, no technical background required. You'll walk away knowing what Claude actually does with your data, how to set ground rules your team will actually follow, and the first three steps to roll it out this month. Thursday, October 22nd, 11 am ET. Stay tuned for more hands-on workshops too! |
👷 Ask ChatGPT what it says about your business before the holidaysTerDawn DeBoe writes in Forbes that shoppers are starting to ask artificial intelligence (AI) assistants like ChatGPT what to buy, and that the assistants build answers from structured information, reviews, and whether a company's details match across its website, Google Business Profile, and directories. Her five tips for getting recommended by AI assistants this holiday season start with writing your homepage as a direct answer to what you do, where, and for whom. This week, ask an assistant what it says about your business, then make sure your hours, address, and policies match everywhere they are listed. |
💰 Google says its new image model, Nano Banana 2.1, makes higher quality images for less money.Google's new image model, Nano Banana 2.1, is rolling out in the Gemini app and Google Ads, and a 1K image costs 3.36 cents, down from 6.70 cents on the previous version. Matthias Bastian at The Decoder breaks down the new prices and where it still trails Google's Nano Banana Pro, which he finds often still produces noticeably better images. Anything still running on the older gemini-3.1-flash-image has to move off it before Google shuts it down on 29 October. |
🛠️ Finance teams spend over a quarter of their week checking AI's work, a vendor survey findsDatarails, which sells AI finance software, surveyed 270 chief financial officers (CFOs) who use AI, and 96 percent spend at least 10 percent of their time verifying or correcting its output. Nearly a third also went over their AI budget by 10 percent or more in the past 12 months. Ask whoever runs your books who checks AI output and whether that time is counted anywhere, and see Jason Bramwell's CPA Practice Advisor write-up of the report for the numbers. |
⚖️ ChatGPT text in the EU is getting an invisible watermark.OpenAI announced that over the coming weeks it will add an invisible watermark to text from eligible ChatGPT and Codex users on all plans in the European Union, in response to the EU AI Act. Companies that plug OpenAI's models into their own software can opt in to watermarking for select models anywhere in the world, but it is off by default. Read OpenAI's explanation of what the watermark can and cannot tell you, including how editing weakens it. |
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