AI news for small business, Friday, 23 October 2026
10 stories worth five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it.
HIGHLIGHT
Canva launches Craft, its own image model that plans the layout first, with readable text and parts you can edit
Canva can now make a poster or menu image with words that are spelled right, and you can still edit it.
CANVA|22 OCT
That is fri 23 oct, all of it.
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Questions readers ask
- What are the 2 big changes now that Amazon's Kindle Unlimited is Kindle Plus, as ZDNet reports?
- ZDNet's Maria Diaz lists the 2 big changes as the new name, Kindle Plus in place of Kindle Unlimited, and a bigger audiobook catalog that includes titles narrated by AI through Amazon's Virtual Voice, which Amazon offers free to authors in Kindle Direct Publishing. The Verge reports the price stays at 11.99 dollars a month in the US, with audiobooks included at no extra cost.
- What did testers find in OpenAI's AI agent monitoring in October 2026, according to the METR site?
- METR and Redwood Research each sent one person into OpenAI from 21 July to 11 August to stress-test the internal system that monitors its AI agents. They found weaknesses, including an exploit that would stop hundreds of recent actions from being monitored and a way Codex agents could in principle bypass their sandbox. METR said in October that OpenAI fixed them, and its findings describe the system as it stood on 21 July.
Top 3 finds.
EVERY NEW AI TOOL WE PICKEDTool of the day
Free My TV
An open source, ad-free home screen for Google TV, Android TV, LG and Samsung TVs that shows your own streaming apps, trending picks from them, the weather and a sunset-following look, with one button to go back to the stock screen.
23 OCT 2026
- solves
- Paying for a dictation app, a meeting note-taker and an assistant separately, and typing up client calls by hand.
- for
- Mac users who write a lot or take client calls and want notes without a bot in the meeting.
- solves
- Typing a long email to explain how to do something on a screen, or a long prompt to explain a problem to an AI tool.
- for
- Owners and staff who train new people, answer customer how-to questions or brief freelancers.
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