The AI Guy Podcast

Meta shipped Spaces for its Muse agents (Nov 6, 2026). Each project now gets its own Space - a dedicated, goal-focused tab that connects to the tools you already use and keeps itself up to date in the background. Run one Space per project: the holiday order, the follow-ups, the quotes. Set a human gate on the money steps, and check each Space five minutes a day. A 4-step SMB playbook for context m...

Amazon just gave its AI shopping agent a phone number. On November 6, 2026, Amazon started rolling out text-message access to Alexa for Shopping, the AI agent it built in May by merging Rufus and Alexa Plus. Over 400 million people used Alexa for Shopping in the last twelve months. You text a contact labeled "Alexa Shopping" and it searches, compares, builds a cart, and buys your supplies - with y...

EP51: The 500 Million Muse: Meta's Small-Business Agent And The Approval Gate That Keeps You In Control. On November 3, 2026, Meta expanded its Muse AI agent to small business, wiring it to the tools owners already run - Shopify, QuickBooks, Stripe, Canva, Slack, Zoom, Klaviyo, Dropbox, Notion, Figma, Asana and Box - along with their Instagram professional accounts, Facebook Pages and Meta ad acco...

EP50: The 86-15 Gap: Goldman's $500M Confession That Small Business Is the AI Economy. On October 22, 2026, Goldman Sachs published the third annual AI survey of its 10,000 Small Businesses program - 2,473 owners, fielded by Babson College - and committed $500 million to a new Small Business AI Institute built with Anthropic, Google, Meta and OpenAI. The headline is both impressive and quietly ala...

EP48: The $12,000 AI Back Office (Oracle + OpenAI 4-Step SMB Playbook). On October 27, 2026, at Oracle AI World, Oracle and OpenAI announced the Oracle AI SMB Bundle: a free-to-start package that gives eligible US small businesses $12,000 in annual Oracle Cloud credits (renewable for up to three years), bundled with ChatGPT Business, Oracle AI Workspace, Codex, Oracle App Composer, and NetSuite Qu...

EP47: Corvo AI and the Local Marketing Shift (Yext 4-Step SMB Playbook). On October 23, 2026, Yext expanded its agentic marketing platform and launched an early version of Corvo AI: a local marketing agent that monitors business listings, reviews, hours, and address details, then helps keep them clean. Marcus and Jules walk a 4-step SMB playbook: (1) audit your core local data; (2) connect the too...

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 page, a Styles feature that learns your brand (colors, fonts, tone) and keeps every visual consistent, finance skills that surface revenue, top expense, and cash-flow trends, and de...

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 coordinates model calls, tools, and context is now both a public API and a codebase you can actually read. No extra platform fee in beta — you pay for the tokens and tools the agent uses, not...

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 third-party tools — Asana, Box, Canva, Dropbox, Figma, Granola, HighLevel, Intuit QuickBooks, Klaviyo, Lovable, Notion, Shopify, Slack, Stripe, and Zoom — plus your Instagram professional...

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, cross-retailer AI cart built on 60+ billion continually refreshed product listings: it organizes products, tracks price and inventory, applies promo codes, and supports checkout via Goog...

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 buyers and 22,000 sellers, at ~32 cents each. On Oct 13, 2026, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments went generally available, built with Coinbase and Stripe: AI agents now pay for APIs...

EP41: 20+ Payment & Retail Giants Back Google's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) — the Agentic Checkout Channel. Google's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) is entering U.S. merchant accounts through the Merchant Center UCP Integration Hub (Oct 6-9, 2026; NRF Big Show Oct 9, Sundar Pichai). Gemini + AI Mode in Google Search can now discover your products, build the cart, and complete checkout...

EP40: $250,000 Is What the Wealthy Spend on Longevity Care—How Small Practices Can Capture It. STAT News (Oct 6, 2026) reports prestigious nonprofit hospitals are opening cash-pay longevity clinics: Northwestern Medicine (Human Longevity Clinic, $5,500/yr package), Weill Cornell (12-month cash-pay Longevity Medicine Program), and the Mayo Clinic (building a 300-patient unit). CNBC (Sept 29, 2026)...

EP39: OpenAI Just Gave Every Small Business a $100/Month AI Employee That Never Sleeps. On September 29, 2026, OpenAI launched Dots at DevDay - always-on AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra that run on their own cloud computers, connect to 4,000+ apps via ChatGPT plugins, and keep working on tasks even when your device is off. The first dot is included at no extra cost for ChatGPT Pro ($100/mo) and B...

EP38: AI Agents Just Started Checking Out. Capture the $1T Market Now. On September 28-29, 2026, Shopify opened its WebMCP suite to the checkout stage, giving browser-based AI agents the ability to read, update, and submit a purchase - including Shop Pay - while the buyer still confirms in the UI. At the same time, Mastercard rolled out Agent Pay with a new trust and intelligence score that tells...

EP37: Your IT Department Just Became a One-Day AI That Lives in Slack. On October 1, 2026, ServiceNow launched Flow — a conversational AI-native service desk that deploys in one day with no infrastructure, no implementation project, and no employee training. It operates natively inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, connects to 100+ systems via pre-built connectors, and lets you turn any resolved requ...

EP36: Meta Just Gave Every Small Business a $20-A-Month AI Employee That Works in the Tools You Already Use. On September 29, 2026, Meta launched Muse for Small Business -- a version of its Muse AI agent built for the workplace. The key capability: it connects to the software you already run on (QuickBooks, Canva, Slack, Asana, Zoom, Stripe and 15 more), plus your Meta ad account and professional...

EP35: Meta Just Put a $15-a-Month AI Employee On WhatsApp. It Answers Your Customers 24/7. On September 15, 2026, Meta launched Meta One -- its subscription brand across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Meta AI. The core Meta AI experience stays free. What changes for small businesses: the business bundles, starting at $14.99 a month (Essential), give SMBs MORE access to the Meta Business Agent...

EP34: Your APIs Can Now Bill the Robots. For a Fraction of a Cent. Block just joined the x402 Foundation and contributed Bitcoin Lightning to the open AI-agent payment standard. In the last 30 days, x402 processed 75.41 million payments totaling $24.24 million across 94,000 buyers and 22,000 sellers -- mostly sub-dollar, machine-to-machine. The average payment is about thirty cents. In this episod...

EP33: Your Dead After-Hours Line Just Became a 24/7 Booking Engine. 800.com just shipped a live AI Receptionist (800 AI Agents) that now books Calendly appointments during the call -- checking live availability, offering open times, and booking the slot on the original call, following your event-type rules. It is available now on every 800.com plan with AI Agents enabled. For home-service provider...

EP32: The Robot Shopper Just Moved Into Google. Your Product Feed Decides If It Buys From You. Google expanded its Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) "native checkout" rollout to more US retailers this week. Shoppers can now complete a full purchase -- cart, checkout, Google Pay -- inside Search AI Mode and the Gemini app, without ever visiting your site. The rollout covers hundreds of thousands of...

EP31: 4 Ways to Turn a $29 Blood Test Into Recurring Revenue. Humanity + Quest Diagnostics just made a $29 biological-age add-on available in over 2,000 US labs. The model is trained on 306,000+ UK Biobank participants with an 11.6-year follow-up, and 80% of customers say they intend to retest in 6-12 months. That is a customer-lifetime loop for any wellness-adjacent small business. In this episod...

On September 15, 2026, TRM Labs and PYMNTS reported that the x402 agent-payment lane is live but tiny: 198.9 million settlements worth 52.7 million dollars, and after removing self-payments and wash loops, only 25.62 million dollars looked like genuine commerce. Marcus and Jules reframe that small receipt as good news: the price of being ready is a weekend, not a transformation. The 4-step free or...

On September 9, 2026, Mastercard launched Agent Connect: one integration that lets an AI shopping agent find your products, build a cart, confirm the final price, and check out. The day before, Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that shops and pays using Stripe's Link. And Microsoft's Copilot Checkout now covers more than 500,000 merchants. The AI shopping shelf is being built this week. The...

In one month the entire price structure of frontier AI moved. On July 30 OpenAI cut the Luna tier by 80 percent, from one dollar and six to twenty cents and one twenty. On August 21 they cut the Sol flagship by twenty percent, from five and thirty to four and twenty, for the next three months. And on September 3 they released GPT-6 Astra, the new flagship, at ten dollars a million input tokens and...