Briefs | Full Service Review

Briefs

Short pointers to stories worth reading elsewhere. Each one links straight to the source.

Brief · golocal.soci.ai AI Local Search Jumps Sixfold in a Year SOCi's 2026 Local Discovery Index found 52% of US consumers used an AI tool to find a local business in the past 30 days, up from 9% a year earlier. Reviews… Read at golocal.soci.ai ↗ · Oct 18, 2026

Brief · anthropic.com Anthropic's new Haiku 5.5 costs about 75% less to run Claude Haiku 5.5, released October 7, lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts under 100,000 tokens, down from… Read at anthropic.com ↗ · Oct 13, 2026

Brief · aiweirdness.com This year's Botober drawing prompts came from a neural net that only knows racehorse names AI Weirdness swapped a modern model for char-rnn, a tiny network trained on 42,000 registered racehorse names, after the bigger model kept suggesting "The… Read at aiweirdness.com ↗ · Oct 13, 2026

Brief · kesq.com A Palm Desert coffee shop uses AI for its posting schedule and keeps the counter human KESQ visited Coachella Valley small businesses using AI for social media, marketing and operations. Cheers Coffee's co-founder says it gives quick answers… Read at kesq.com ↗ · Oct 13, 2026

Brief · thenextweb.com Two in three AI-using small businesses have built an AI tool of their own Pax8's Q3 SMB AI Pulse surveyed 1,150 decision-makers in the US, UK, Germany and Sweden. 67% of AI-using firms have built at least one workflow or agent now… Read at thenextweb.com ↗ · Oct 13, 2026

Brief · sbecouncil.org Main Street is beating its 2026 targets, and most small employers now use AI agents SBE Council's October Small Business Check Up finds 81% of small employers meeting or beating their 2026 financial targets and 58% using AI agents regularly… Read at sbecouncil.org ↗ · Oct 13, 2026

Brief · libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org Small businesses that use AI expect to hire more, New York Fed finds Among 5,248 employer firms in the Fed's Small Business Credit Survey, AI users were far more optimistic about adding staff over the next year (a net 33… Read at libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org ↗ · Oct 11, 2026

Brief · goldmansachs.com Three in four small businesses use AI, and 93% say it has paid off Goldman Sachs' 10,000 Small Businesses Voices survey found 76% of owners now use AI, 93% of those say it has had a positive impact, and 84% point to… Read at goldmansachs.com ↗ · Oct 10, 2026

Run a business? Check your AI visibility score, then claim your listing to get your own news here.

© 2026 Full Service Review LLC

Free Listing Offer Ends October 31. See More 6 days left Claim free listing