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Hosted by Shaun Gehring · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 20 episodes
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Every week, AI makes another headline. Most of it doesn't matter for your business. This show cuts through the noise. The AI Operator is a weekly podcast for SMB owners and business leaders who want to actually use AI — not just read about it. Each episode breaks down one AI tool in plain English, covers the stories worth paying attention to, and ends with one concrete thing you can do this week. Your host Shaun Gehring is a developer and entrepreneur who builds AI tools for real business problems. He's not here to hype the technology — he's here to tell you what works, what doesn't, and what's worth your time. No fluff. No vendor spin. Just the AI moves that help small businesses compete. New episodes every week. <p style='color:grey; font-si
Shaun Gehring hosts The AI Operator, a news show with 20 episodes published.
The first fully autonomous AI cyberattack didn't come from a hacker in a hoodie. It came from one of the most careful AI companies on earth — during a safety test, on its own equipment. This week: what it actually means
A federal judge just approved the largest copyright settlement in American history: $1.5 billion — about $3,000 a book — because an AI company built its model on books pulled from pirate libraries. The pirate-lumberyard
Three of the biggest AI companies made their move in eleven days — OpenAI shipped a whole new model family, Google's answer missed its date, and Anthropic put its smartest model on a meter the morning this episode drops.
85% of customers who hit your voicemail never call back — they just hire the shop that answered. The same week Mark Zuckerberg admitted to his own employees that Meta's AI push "hasn't really accelerated" after laying of
For three weeks I told you the good news: AI is cheap, powerful, and it's your edge. This is the fine print. The same price collapse that lets your shop punch above its weight lets a stranger forge your vendor's invoice
Five companies — Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle — will spend roughly $725 billion building AI this year, and they're losing money on your $20 subscription on purpose. That's great… until someone wants the mo
Five companies — Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle — will spend roughly $725 billion building AI this year, and they're losing money on your $20 subscription on purpose. That's great… until someone wants the mo
You probably saw the headline — "AI rules delayed to 2027" — and relaxed. Here's the part it left out: Europe delayed the heavy rules, the ones written for Google and the banks. The one small rule written for a business
If you've ever copy-pasted an email from Gmail into Claude, asked for a reply, copy-pasted it back, edited it, and then also logged the interaction in your CRM — you've been doing AI on hard mode. You've been the human r
The headlines this week said small businesses are "already replacing workers with AI." Then the Census Bureau actually counted — and fewer than 1 in 5 U.S. businesses use AI for anything (under 20% for the smallest shops
Imagine you could install a marketing department in 60 seconds. Or a finance person. Or a sales coach. All of them experienced, all of them already onboarded, all of them ready Monday morning. Cost roughly the price of a
$900 billion is pouring into AI at the top — meanwhile 60% of the companies buying it can't point to a single dollar it made them. That's the gap this episode lives in. Capability is everywhere and it's cheap; the edge i
Every conversation with AI starts from zero. You re-explain your tone, your rules, your refund policy, your brand voice, your forbidden words — every. single. time. Then you wonder why your AI sounds like every other AI
Nine dollars a month now buys you 10,000 automated tasks. The AI agent price war is real — and for once it's pointed at small businesses, not the enterprise. But the cheapest platform is the wrong thing to chase. This we
Most small businesses are using AI like a vending machine. You walk up, type a question, get a snack, walk away. The next day you do it again — because the machine doesn't remember you, doesn't know your business, doesn'
Sixty-two percent of inbound calls to small businesses go unanswered — costing the average shop about $126,000 a year in lost revenue, per 411 Locals and Aira's data. Meanwhile, AI just dropped the average first response
Most small business owners are running an AI bake-off in their head — ChatGPT in one tab, Gemini in another, Copilot showing up in Office, somebody told them about Claude last quarter. Five tools. Small bets across all o
80,000 tech workers laid off in four months — and the CEO of OpenAI just admitted a lot of it is "AI washing." Meanwhile, entry-level AI skills now pay a 56% wage premium and Anthropic just got Goldman Sachs to back a $1
Most small businesses aren't short on AI options. They're short on clarity about which ones are actually worth their time. This special edition of The AI Operator skips the news and goes straight to the tools. Six specif
74% of all the economic value being created by AI right now is going to just 20% of companies. The other 80%? They're using AI — they're just doing it wrong. This week on The AI Operator, Shaun breaks down the biggest AI
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