A.I. in Mental-Health Care: Chatbot Therapy
Mental-health-care practices are increasingly having to contend with A.I.’s encroachment on mental-health treatment, specifically in the form of chatbots. However, these chatbots have a number of risks that mental-health-care practitioners should be aware of. The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Some mental-health-care practices will include A.I. chatbots, likely in an assistant mode rather […]
Using A.I. Chatbots for Mental Health Care: What to Know
There are chatbots that are for mental-health care, and there are chatbots not for that purpose but are nonetheless a go-to for users looking to chat about their mental health. The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Woebot and Wysa are just two examples of mental-health chatbots. Despite the availability of mental-health chatbots, plenty […]
A.I. Sycophancy: What Business Owner Should Know
 Many experts agree that A.I. has a problem with sycophancy, which ChatGPT creator OpenAI describes as an A.I. being “overly flattering or agreeable”. For business owners, the sycophancy effect has some problems. The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Sycophancy in A.I. can have wide-ranging consequences for users. In the context of business owners, […]
What Is IndexNow? Business Owners Should Know It.
 IndexNow is a push-notification system that sends changes to website content (e.g., page additions, deletions, and updates) to participating search engines. This can drastically cut down on the time it takes for those search engines to index the content for search results. The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Supported search engines include Microsoft […]
A.I. Companions’ Relevance to Business Owners
An A.I. companion goes beyond the usual ChatGPT–style assistive functions and instead is meant to function as something like an imaginary friend made manifest. See Replika for an example of this. The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post A.I. companions could represent for business owners an opportunity to capitalize on the personalization and customizability […]
Google’s “Ask for Me” A.I. Calls Businesses for You
Google’s Search Labs has an A.I. feature worth knowing about, that being “Ask for Me”. As of this writing, this is one of those experimental-phase A.I. products made available to a select group of people who will test it for Google. Its rollout has been slow, starting with nail salons and auto shops. The Five […]
Tech Companies Are Safeguarding Against Using A.I. to Remove Watermarks
High-profile generative-A.I. like Google’s Gemini 2.0 model, available in AI Studio, have been used for the purpose of removing watermarks on stock images. However, it seems that most tech companies have put in enough guardrails to keep users from doing this. The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post This controversial use of A.I. does […]
Not All Ads for A.I. Are Accurate. Example: Google’s Super Bowl Ad.
Back in the colder months of early 2025, Google ran an ad for Gemini A.I. during the Super Bowl. But there was not only a factual error in this ad, but even some apparent deception, in that what was made to look like Gemini’s output was actually human-generated writing. The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This […]
A.I. in Auto: Lyft Implements Claude in Customer Service
 Lyft claims that customer-service request fulfilment has become 87 percent faster. This follows an initial implementation of having Claude field questions from drivers themselves. The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post Lyft says that the chatbot only handles common queries and will otherwise direct customers to human customer-service representatives. According to Anthropic, the creator […]
Apple Intelligence in iOS 26: What to Know
 Apple’s new software update across eligible Apple devices includes a number of improvements to Apple Intelligence. This blog covers what business owners should know about these features. The Five Most-Key Takeaways from This Blog Post A major feature is Live Translation, which can help people cross language barriers. In Messages, FaceTime, and Phone communications, users […]