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AI makes headlines every day, but the useful information is often trapped behind a paywall, buried in a 30-minute video, or drowned out by hype.
We cut through the noise and share the developments that actually matter to business owners. Our perspective comes from developers who work with this technology every day and understand what is genuinely useful, what is overblown, and what is coming next.
No hype. No panic. No jargon. Just what happened, why it matters to your business, and what you should do next.
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Two leads came through our own site in less than a week because somebody asked a chatbot who to call, and nothing in the report says so. How to check whether AI assistants are sending you customers, and what to fix if they are not.
OpenAI Named Its Agent Dots. Somebody Else Already Owned Dot.com.
OpenAI named its new agent Dots and found the front door to that name already taken. Your name is a search term too, and somebody else can hold the key to it.
The Smallest Model That Finishes the Job Is Usually the One You Already Own
The smallest model that finishes a job is usually running on hardware you already own, where the marginal cost is electricity. Where the small lane works, where it breaks quietly, and how to decide per task.
Your AI Chats Are Evidence Now. Delete Is Not a Defense.
A federal court approved the production of 20 million ChatGPT conversations in a copyright case, de-identified and under a protective order. The copy a provider keeps at the end of the trip is the copy a judge can ask for, and most companies have never read their own retention page.
Your AI Stack Should Have Some Overlap. Especially on a Budget.
Two vendors in the same lane sounds like waste. In our experience it is the cheapest insurance in the stack, and the budget cap is what makes it affordable.
A weekend with Jev: where a small classifier actually earned its place
We pointed a small classifier at the decisions our agents make badly, measured it on our own turns, and found the one place it earns its keep. The numbers, including where it does nothing at all.
Your AI Assistant Remembers Nothing. We Build the Memory Ourselves.
DeepSeek is the last major assistant with no memory at all. What matters for a business is who owns the context the AI runs on, and how to keep it.
We Tried to Build an Atlanta Video Game With a Frontier AI Model
A client asked about 3D renderings. Four days later I was riding a bicycle through a virtual Piedmont Park. How we built The Battle of ATL with a frontier AI model, one blunt edit at a time.
Anthropic's Data Retention Problem Is Giving OpenAI a Rare Opening
Palantir and Booz Allen are shifting workloads from Anthropic to OpenAI over data retention. Anthropic's fix is coming, but in AI time, coming does not pay the bills.
I Paid for Aura AI to Build a Game. The AI Underneath It Quit Using Aura.
I paid an AI wrapper to drive Unreal Engine for me. Then the model underneath started working in Unreal directly, and the wrapper became a subscription to a window.
Over Half His Leads Come From AI Now. I Called That Three Years Ago.
An Atlanta pressure-washing client just showed me the numbers: more than half his leads come from ChatGPT now. We bet on AI replacing search three years ago. This is what that looks like.
Russian Mathematicians Taught AI Models to Talk Without Words
A startup called Mostik built a bridge that lets AI models share capabilities without exchanging text. Why that could change the open-weight vs closed-model fight.
10,000 AI Agents Just Took a Swing at a 90-Year Math Problem. The Answer Isn't the Interesting Part.
OpenAI says about 10,000 AI agents solved a 90-year-old math problem in 88 hours. The answer is not the interesting part. The method is.
Open Source AI Is the Most Important Argument We Are Having. Watch Who Tries to End It.
Open models are what I actually run day to day. Why the fight over who gets to publish them is the argument that matters most right now.
Your AI Is Keeping a Diary About You (And It's Stored in Plain Text)
Your chat logs, agent transcripts and AI memory sit on disk in plain text. Where each tool keeps the diary, and how to protect it.
Nvidia Just Bought the Town Square of AI. Here's Why Your Business Should Care.
A $12.93 billion receipt changed who owns the open-source AI world. What that means for the tools you run your business on.
Three Major AI Systems Went Down at the Same Time. Why Isn't Anyone Talking About This?
ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all went down together on September 3. A day later, nobody can explain why.
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Who's behind it
Coffee Talk AI is written by Elliott Augustine, founder of Web Experts, an Atlanta, Georgia web design and technology company. He has been doing this longer than most people have been online, and AI since long before it was cool. There is more to the story, including a few names you would recognize in it. Read the full bio →