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Anthropic's Newest Claude Feature Is Here to Help Small-Business Owners With Their Pain Points https://www.inc.com/ben-sherry/anthropics-newest-claude-feature-is-here-to-help-small-business-owners-with-their-pain-points/91343926Connecting to both QuickBooks and Microsoft 365 would make this a very interesting offering for a lot of small businesses.

All the planes I've been on lately had working power outlets at the seats so I never even think about bringing a power bank on the plane. ‍️ #travelThis Common Travel Habit Is Now Banned on American Airlines Flights https://www.inc.com/fast-company-2/travel-habit-banned-american-airlines-flights/91340805

... sever our relationship or they go out of business?SPAN Announces XFRA, a Distributed Data Center Solution to Close the Speed-to-Power Gap for AI Compute Demand https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260414372626/en/SPAN-Announces-XFRA-a-Distributed-Data-Center-Solution-to-Close-the-Speed-to-Power-Gap-for-AI-Compute-Demand

Not a big surprise, really. #legaltechPractice Management Platform Clio To Discontinue Its Longtime Integration with Payments Processor LawPay https://www.lawnext.com/2026/05/practice-management-platform-clio-to-discontinue-its-longtime-integration-with-payments-processor-lawpay.html

Can't recall if I shared this one before, but this fellow has some nice examples of using agents to speed up routine legal tasks. #AI #Copilot #LegalTechA Deep Dive on Microsoft Co-Pilot https://vimeo.com/1147450338?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

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A timely caution about making sure Agentic AI has guardrails and appropriate oversight. This caution, I am confident, will be widely ignored and more incidents like this will happen.9 Seconds to Disaster: Agentic AI Deletes Company Database – What Lawyers Should Know https://jlellis.net/blog/it-took-9-seconds-ai-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-lessons-for-law-firms/

@bobdobberson My home router has a built-in feature in the UI for scheduling reboots. My parents have Eero routers; last I checked it doesn't have that capability.

"When nobody knows anything, when the future is that uncertain, you cannot plan your way to success."― Andrew McAfee on why waterfall fails, Heard on HBR IdeaCast Especially with new initiatives the old saying about "No plan of battle survives first contact with the enemy" holds true. You have to try stuff, learn, adjust, improve.

Honestly one of the stronger use cases for AI that I've found is as a sounding board - a thought partner to bounce ideas off of and get additional perspective from. Even at 2AM when I don't have to wake up other people.

"So we're in this era of deep, deep uncertainty."― Andrew McAfee on AI productivity evidence, on HBR IdeaCast - Strategy Summit 2026 We are, though individual wins (often anecdotal) are clearly emerging. I see clients saving time on email and improving their document drafting too.

When I was at Microsoft our team came through to respond to an unexpected situation & was able to deliver. In the aftermath one of our folks said "I hope leadership doesn't take the fact that we successfully put out this fire as a sign that they should just light everything on fire from now on."

If you have a Word template with placeholder text where the variables should go you can have #Copilot build the document for you by just providing it with the data that should replace those placeholders - much like a mail merge.