NEWS/8 OCT

AI news for small business, Thursday, 8 October 2026

7 stories worth five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it.

HIGHLIGHT

Claude now works inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, in public beta on every paid plan

A sidebar that edits the file you have open, and asks before it changes anything.

CLAUDE|6 OCT
That is thu 8 oct, all of it.

These are short summaries of other people's reporting, with our own commentary. Each story names its source and links to the original. How we source and credit

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Hermes Agent

An open source AI agent from Nous Research that learns reusable skills from the jobs you give it, with a Hermes Business option for teams.

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  1. solves
    Recurring admin that eats the morning: sorting important emails, tracking to-dos and repeating the same clicks across apps.
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    Solo owners and freelancers with no assistant and a lot of repetitive desk work.
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    Not knowing which AI gives the best answer for your work, and the tab-hopping it takes to find out.
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    Anyone who already uses a couple of AI assistants and wants to compare them on real questions, on a Mac.
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