The AI Guy Podcast

EP46: Google Gave Every Small Business a Brand Brain and a Cash-Flow Mirror (4-Step Gemini Playbook). On October 20, 2026, Google launched dedicated tools inside Gemini for small business owners: a new business landing...

On Oct 20, 2026, Google shipped dedicated Gemini tools for small business owners: a brand-styles engine, finance skills, and a central hub. A 4-step weekend playbook: feed your brand DNA, get one honest cash-flow...

EP45: OpenAI Open-Sourced the Harness That Runs Codex — Now It's a 3-Step API. On September 10, 2026, OpenAI introduced the Agents API in public beta, powered by the open-source Codex harness. The engine that...

On Sept 10, 2026, OpenAI put the harness behind Codex into a public Agents API, and the harness is open source. A weekend-ready 3-step playbook: call the engine, read the open code, and keep a human approval gate on...

On October 8, 2026, Microsoft announced 30 pre-built Dynamics 365 Copilot CRM skills, Dynamics 365 CRM inside Teams, and a public-preview Sales Development Agent that researches prospects, writes personalized outreach...

EP44: Fifteen Tools, One AI — Meta Muse Ends the Human Router (4-Step SMB Playbook). On September 29, 2026, Meta expanded its Muse personal AI agent to small business (Muse for Small Business). It connects to 15...

Meta launched Muse for Small Business (Sept 29, 2026), extending its Muse agent to 15 business tools — QuickBooks, Stripe, Shopify, Klaviyo, Canva, Slack, and more — plus Instagram, Facebook, and Meta ads. You set a...

OpenAI launched Dots at DevDay on September 29, 2026: always-on AI agents that run 24/7 on their own cloud computer, connect to over 4,000 apps, and work toward goals you set, all inside the permission boundaries you...

Google Universal Cart launched in the US on October 15, 2026 across Search and Gemini. It is built on UCP, Google's open agentic-commerce protocol, and reads 60+ billion refreshed product listings. For SMB product...

EP43: Google Just Put One Cart in Front of 60 Billion Products — and It’s Coming for Your Store. On October 15, 2026, Google began rolling out Universal Cart in the US across Search and Gemini. It is a persistent...

EP42: 75M Payments at 32 Cents Each — the x402 Agent Economy and AWS AgentCore Payments. Last month, x402 (the open standard for machine-to-machine HTTP payments) moved 75 million transactions worth $24M between 94,000...

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments is now generally available (built with Coinbase and Stripe): AI agents pay for APIs, data, and model inference one request at a time over the open x402 standard, with spending limits...

Dental and medical practices are missing the highest-value calls: a Peerlogic analysis of 4,280 patient calls across 26 practices found 38% went unanswered, and new-patient calls converted to appointments at ~25% vs...

California SB 574 (signed Sept 30, 2026, effective Jan 1, 2027) is the first state law telling lawyers how to use generative AI: protect client data, personally verify every citation, disclose AI use in court filings...

STAT News (Oct 6, 2026) reports Northwestern Medicine, Weill Cornell and Mayo Clinic now run cash-pay longevity clinics ($5,500-$45,000/yr). 800+ US clinics; UBS projects $8T by 2030. A 4-step playbook lets a small...