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HoneyBook bets on agentic AI to streamline small business operations with its new Claude connector
Autonomous artificial intelligence agents have already penetrated the offices of large, global enterprises. Now, HoneyBook is trying to bring that same capability to independent businesses with the launch of HoneyBook MCP, recently released as a connector for Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude. The move addresses a real gap.
AI data centre regulation just got a template that needs no new law
AI data centre regulation in Pennsylvania now begins with a signature. Before the state will so much as open a developer’s permit file, that developer has to sign a contract accepting a fixed set of conditions and the penalties for breaking them, and persuade the town that has to live with the building to say yes. Governor Josh Shapiro signed Executive Order 2026-05 in the US state’s capital, Harrisburg, on Tuesday.
A third of ChatGPT ads appear in irrelevant conversations
Advertising inside ChatGPT arrived with a promise that the assistant already knows what the user wants. So far, that hasn’t entirely been the case. Searchable, the AI visibility platform, analysed more than 11,000 ads served inside real ChatGPT conversations between 4 July and 4 August 2026, pairing every ad with the conversation it appeared in, then grading how closely the advertised product matched what the user was asking about. After assessing every ad according to one of three relevancy bands, a third (33%) of ads were found to be unrelated, with no connection to the conversation at all.
Agentic AI in government just hit the hard part: deciding what a machine may decide
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been early in adopting artificial intelligence for 9 years. It published a national AI strategy in October 2017 and, days later, created a ministerial post to run it, making Omar Sultan Al Olama the world’s first minister of state for artificial intelligence at 27. In the years since, it has built the digital identity, sovereign cloud and data-sharing layers most governments are still procuring. Agentic AI in government is where that head start either pays off or does not. The test began this month.
OpenAI builds safety system that catches misuse without storing customer data
OpenAI plans to offer its most advanced AI models to corporate customers without storing their data, while still detecting misuse. The article OpenAI builds safety system that catches misuse without storing customer data appeared first on The Decoder.
Terence Tao says AI could trigger math's biggest crisis since Gödel
In a new essay, Terence Tao warns that AI could push mathematics into a crisis on par with the foundational upheaval around 1900. What's being tested this time isn't mathematical truth but the values of the field: what counts as a contribution, what gets rewarded, and who did the work. His rule of thumb: a proof that no human can explain should be considered incomplete. The article Terence Tao says AI could trigger math's biggest crisis since Gödel appeared first on The Decoder.