Speaker 1: Welcome to AI assembled the top AI news for small business.
Speaker 1: I'm Chris daily and each week I bring you the
Speaker 1: most important AI developments that can transform your business. Let's
Speaker 1: dive into this week's top stories.
Speaker 2: The fable story we have been tracking for three weeks
Speaker 2: is finally turning. On June twenty seventh, multiple outlets, led
Speaker 2: by Axios and confirmed by Reuters reported that the Trump
Speaker 2: administration is close to allowing Anthropic to restore broad access
Speaker 2: to Claude Fable five. The first concrete move already happened.
Speaker 2: On June twenty sixth, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik sent a
Speaker 2: letter to Anthropic restoring partial access to Mythos five, but
Speaker 2: only for what the government calls ANNEXA organizations. That is,
Speaker 2: US critical infrastructure operators, federal civilian agencies, national laboratories, and
Speaker 2: Anthropics own foreign national staff. Fable five for the rest
Speaker 2: of the world, including paid subscribers and claud code users,
Speaker 2: is still dark as of this episode, but the government's
Speaker 2: posture has shifted from suspend and investigate to restore with conditions.
Speaker 2: The expected time line, per Axio sources is days, not weeks.
Speaker 2: For a small business. Three things to take from this One,
Speaker 2: A Frontier AI model can come back from a government
Speaker 2: shut down, but the shut down itself was real, lasted
Speaker 2: seventeen days, and reshaped how every serious AI operator now
Speaker 2: thinks about single vendor risk. Two. The restoration is happening
Speaker 2: through bilateral letter and license diplomacy between Anthropic and Washington,
Speaker 2: not through any public rule translation. Future suspensions could follow
Speaker 2: the same pattern with the same lack of advance warning. Three.
Speaker 2: If you opened that back up model account we recommended
Speaker 2: last week, do not close it when fable returns. Keep both.
Speaker 2: The cost of carrying a second account is small, the
Speaker 2: cost of being single vendor next time. This happens is
Speaker 2: not story two this week, and it lands directly on
Speaker 2: the question of who can be trusted with Frontier AI.
Speaker 2: Anthropic publicly alleged this week that ali Baba operated nearly
Speaker 2: twenty five thousand fraudulent accounts on Claude, generating more than
Speaker 2: twenty eight million interactions for the explicit purpose of extracting
Speaker 2: Claude's reasoning, coding, and complex task capabilities. If Anthropics account
Speaker 2: is accurate, this is one of the largest model extraction
Speaker 2: operations on record. Ali Baba has not publicly responded as
Speaker 2: of this episode. What it tells small business operators is
Speaker 2: something subtler than the headline. The frontier AI providers are
Speaker 2: now actively defending their models against industrial scale capability theft,
Speaker 2: and they are doing it by tightening a abuse detection,
Speaker 2: rate limits and account verification across all customers, not just
Speaker 2: the bad actors. So if you have noticed your CLAUD
Speaker 2: or GPT account hitting rate limits more often, or getting
Speaker 2: more identity verification prompts, or experiencing slightly slower agent loops
Speaker 2: in the past two weeks, this is part of the
Speaker 2: reason the era of unlimited, anonymous, frictionless AI access is
Speaker 2: winding down. Build that into your AI operating assumptions, provision
Speaker 2: more carefully, watch your rate limit logs, and if you
Speaker 2: are an integrator selling AI services to other small businesses,
Speaker 2: expect more verification friction on your customer's accounts, not less.
Speaker 2: The third story is the one that will quietly reshape
Speaker 2: AI pricing twelve months from now. Open Ai introduced its
Speaker 2: first in house AI chip this week, named Halapano, designed
Speaker 2: in partnership with Broadcom and aimed at inference workloads, meaning
Speaker 2: the chip that actually runs the model when you type
Speaker 2: a prompt, not the chip that trains it. This is
Speaker 2: open AI's direct play to reduce its dependence on Nvidia,
Speaker 2: the same way Anthropic is leaning on Google TPUs and
Speaker 2: Amazon Traanium. Three of the four largest AI labs are
Speaker 2: now publicly committed to custom silicon on top of Nvidia,
Speaker 2: not instead of it. For a small business owner, the
Speaker 2: practical implication is straightforward. The cost of AI inference, what
Speaker 2: you pay to run prompts through GPT, Claude or Gemini,
Speaker 2: is structurally set to keep falling for the next twenty
Speaker 2: four months as custom chips come online. That is good news,
Speaker 2: but it also means any annual AI contract you signed
Speaker 2: today at today's prices will look expensive twelve months from now.
Speaker 2: Negotiate one year contracts maximum, push hard for usage credits
Speaker 2: not committed minimums, and if a vendor can tell you
Speaker 2: how their pricing will change as inference costs collapse, that
Speaker 2: is the answer now.
Speaker 3: To a story every small business needs to read before
Speaker 3: they hand AI credentials to a developer. The fintech startup
Speaker 3: Slash disclosed this week that one of its employees building
Speaker 3: a small internal video game using AI powered code generation
Speaker 3: what the industry now calls vibe coding generated a bill
Speaker 3: of eighty one thousand, two hundred and sixty seven dollars
Speaker 3: in a single sprint eighty one thousand dollars for a
Speaker 3: side project. Slash revised its AI usage policy company wide
Speaker 3: in response. The lesson is not that AI coding is expensive.
Speaker 3: It isn't when used carefully. The lesson is that a
Speaker 3: developer running a front tier model in a loop, without
Speaker 3: per task budgets and without alerts can burn through a
Speaker 3: small business's entire annual AI budget in a single weekend.
Speaker 3: We touched on this last week with the new clawed
Speaker 3: agent SDK billing change. This is the same problem in
Speaker 3: a different costume. Three controls to put in place this week.
Speaker 3: If you have any developer, contractor or fractional IT person
Speaker 3: with access to your AI accounts. One set hard monthly
Speaker 3: spendcaps in every AI account, not soft alerts. Most providers
Speaker 3: offer both. Choose the hardcap.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 3: Separate developer accounts from production accounts. The developer can experiment,
Speaker 3: but with a separate, smaller budget.
Speaker 2: Three.
Speaker 3: Ask your developer for a weekly cost and output report
Speaker 3: two sentences. What was run, what it produced, what it cost.
Speaker 3: If they cannot produce that report, they should not have
Speaker 3: the credentials. This is not about distrust. This is the
Speaker 3: same operating discipline you would apply to any new credit
Speaker 3: card you handed to a new hire. Story five, and
Speaker 3: this one is for every small business that ships visual content,
Speaker 3: which by twenty twenty six is most small businesses at
Speaker 3: CONFIG twenty twenty six. This week, Figma launched a new
Speaker 3: product called Motion. Motion is an AI powered animation tool
Speaker 3: that lives directly inside Pigma. Currently in beta, it lets
Speaker 3: a non designer generate advanced animations, transitions, and micro interactions,
Speaker 3: the kinds of motion graphics that used to require a
Speaker 3: specialist using after effects or a paid animation service. Figma
Speaker 3: has spent two years quietly evolving from a design tool
Speaker 3: into a full digital product platform, and Motion completes the picture, ideation, design, interaction,
Speaker 3: and now animation all in one subscription for a small
Speaker 3: business that runs marketing on Instagram, reels, TikTok, YouTube, shorts,
Speaker 3: or any platform where Motion outperforms static. This changes the math.
Speaker 3: The work that previously cost three hundred to one thousand
Speaker 3: dollars per animation from a freelancer is now a fifteen
Speaker 3: minute task inside a tool. Many small businesses already pay
Speaker 3: for two practical moves. One, if you already pay for Figma,
Speaker 3: check whether Motion has rolled out to your account this
Speaker 3: week and try it on one short social post. Two.
Speaker 3: If you are paying a freelance animator monthly, ask them
Speaker 3: to evaluate motion and tell you which parts of your
Speaker 3: pipeline can move in house. Most freelancers will quietly tell
Speaker 3: you the truth.
Speaker 2: Now a correction, we owe listeners from the last two episodes.
Speaker 2: For the past three weeks, we have been telling small
Speaker 2: businesses the Colorado AI Act takes effect June thirtieth, that
Speaker 2: is tomorrow, and to prepare a disclosure page. Here is
Speaker 2: the update that changes that picture. On May fourteenth, Colorado
Speaker 2: Governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill twenty six Dash one
Speaker 2: eighty nine, which replaces the original Colorado AI Act entirely.
Speaker 2: The new law strips out the original duty of care,
Speaker 2: the risk management program requirement, and the impact assessment obligations.
Speaker 2: It substitutes a streamlined disclosure and transparency framework focused on
Speaker 2: automated decision making in employment, education, housing, lending, insurance, health care,
Speaker 2: and essential government services. And critically, the new effective date
Speaker 2: is January first, twenty twenty seven, not June thirtieth, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six. So if you spent the last two weeks
Speaker 2: preparing a Colorado disclosure under the original law, the good
Speaker 2: news is the work you did is not wasted. The
Speaker 2: new law still requires a plain language AI disclosure for
Speaker 2: adverse decisions, with thirty day post decision notices, three year
Speaker 2: record retention, and the right of consumers to request human review.
Speaker 2: The framework is simpler and the deadline moved six months,
Speaker 2: but the direction is the same. Every small business making
Speaker 2: consequential decisions about Colorado residents will need a disclosure regime
Speaker 2: by next January. We owe you the corrected time line,
Speaker 2: six months, more breathing room, same direction of travel, and
Speaker 2: one personal story from the host before we close. I'm Chris,
Speaker 2: and a few months ago I was given a free
Speaker 2: year of boardy Pro as an early adopter for any
Speaker 2: one unfamiliar. Bordi is an AI networking assistant that you
Speaker 2: call on the phone. It talks to you, learns about
Speaker 2: your business, and connects you with relevant people across LinkedIn.
Speaker 2: That is the marketed use case on a whim. This month,
Speaker 2: I started asking body to do things it is not
Speaker 2: advertised to do. I asked it to draft a sales proposal.
Speaker 2: It did. I asked it to put together a one
Speaker 2: page summary report on a market segment. It did that too.
Speaker 2: I asked it to outline a sales deck done. The
Speaker 2: basic version of boardy is one hundred percent free and
Speaker 2: is quietly capable of work that small business owners are
Speaker 2: currently paying twenty to fifty dollars a month for elsewhere.
Speaker 2: I am not affiliated with the company. I am just
Speaker 2: a user telling other users what I found. If you
Speaker 2: already use bardy, ask it to find me and connect
Speaker 2: with me Chris host of ai Assembled. If you do
Speaker 2: not use boardy and want an invite, reach out to
Speaker 2: me directly and I will send you one. Worst case,
Speaker 2: you have one more AI tool in your stack that
Speaker 2: costs you nothing. Best case, it replaces a paid subscription
Speaker 2: you no longer need. So here is the bottom line
Speaker 2: on this week. Fable is coming back, but on the
Speaker 2: government's terms, not Anthropics. Ali Baba and Anthropic are at
Speaker 2: industrial war over model capability. Theft and the friction is
Speaker 2: going to show up on every small business's AI account.
Speaker 2: Open Ai just shipped its own chip, locking in the
Speaker 2: price collapse that's coming over the next two years. A
Speaker 2: startup just burned eighty one thousand dollars on a vibe
Speaker 2: coding side project, and the same risk lives inside any
Speaker 2: small business with a developer and an AI account. Figma
Speaker 2: added motion graphics to the tool many of you already
Speaker 2: pay for. Colorado moved its AI compliance deadline by six months,
Speaker 2: and there is a free AI tool called Bordi that
Speaker 2: most small business owners do not know can do more
Speaker 2: than networking. Here is your five step action plan for
Speaker 2: the next thirty days. One keep the backup AI model
Speaker 2: account you opened, do not close it when fable returns.
Speaker 2: Single vendor risk is now permanent. Two set hard monthly
Speaker 2: spending caps, not soft alerts on every AI account in
Speaker 2: your business. This week. The slash story will repeat. Make
Speaker 2: sure it does not repeat at your business. Three. If
Speaker 2: you pay for Figma, try motion on one short form
Speaker 2: video this week before you renew any freelance animation contract.
Speaker 2: Four update your Colorado AI compliance project plan. You have
Speaker 2: six more months. Use them to build a disclosure framework
Speaker 2: that works for every state, because every state is coming.
Speaker 2: Five try boardy this week for one task. It is
Speaker 2: not advertised to do a proposal a deck a report.
Speaker 2: If it works that is one paid subscription you can
Speaker 2: cancel next month. That's the brief.
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