By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-09-07.
A price extracted from a supplier PDF can look perfectly reasonable and still be wrong for your catalogue. It might belong to another SKU, refer to a pack rather than a single item, or lack a currency. Before importing it, someone needs to settle those questions.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-09-06.
Your renewal job can finish successfully while customers still receive the old certificate. For a business website or customer API, the job is only complete once the intended certificate is being served. The scheduler, certificate request and public endpoint each need checking.
Shorter certificate lifetimes make gaps between those steps harder to leave unattended. Can your setup validate domains, obtain certificates, deploy them and check the result repeatedly, without someone having to remember a maintenance task?
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-09-05.
An AI-generated image may arrive with machine-readable provenance and appear on your website without it. No one has to remove anything deliberately. A routine resize, format conversion, CMS derivative, optimization rule, or social export can be enough to separate the image from its Content Credentials.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-09-04.
The support system reveals more than which tickets the team has closed. It also shows where customers get stuck, what they misunderstand, and which parts of the product or operations keep creating extra work.
Could your business use this? nowa.dk sets up AI automation for Danish companies.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-09-03.
OpenAI authentication is no longer just a matter of finding a safer place to store an API key. On August 29, 2026, OpenAI made mutual TLS and X.509 workload identity federation generally available. For businesses with well-managed machine identities, that creates a credible path away from long-lived API keys.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-09-02.
WordPress 7.1, released on August 19, 2026, gives developers a more capable foundation for automation. The Abilities API now supports shared discovery, custom validation and a filterable execution lifecycle. Plugins can describe their operations in a structured format, and external clients, including AI agents, can find and invoke them through consistent interfaces.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-09-01.
A sales meeting does not end when Teams or Google Meet closes. Afterwards, someone has to document what was agreed, assign responsibility, set a deadline, update the deal and write to the customer. When that task is left to each salesperson, the result is often delayed and inconsistent. Some CRM records are thorough. Others are missing half the information.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-08-31.
Adding a verified identity to an AI Gateway log makes the data far more useful. A sudden increase in spend can be traced to an account. A risky prompt is no longer an anonymous event. The business can compare the activity with that account's usual behaviour and decide whether someone needs to investigate, limit access or block the request.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-08-30.
Zero Data Retention sounds comprehensive. It is useful, but it answers a fairly specific question: what does the AI provider keep after processing a request?
OpenAI says eligible API customers using Zero Data Retention can prevent their prompts and model responses from being retained after processing. Its August 19 announcement also previews Private Safety Processing, which is designed to detect patterns across related interactions without giving OpenAI personnel access to the underlying customer content.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-08-29.
MCP 2026-07-28 looks like a routine protocol release. For anyone already running MCP clients or servers, it is a more substantial change. Protocol-level sessions are gone, requests identify themselves differently, and several OAuth assumptions are now stricter. That reaches into application architecture, authorization-server configuration, gateways, SDK compatibility and security testing.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-08-28.
Technicians rarely stand still while documenting the day’s work. The tools need to be packed away, the customer may have one final question, and the next job is waiting. This is where voice input makes sense: “Replaced circulation pump, spent two hours and used one gasket set, system tested and commissioned.”
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-08-27.
A ChatGPT integration can fail quietly. The interface still opens. Prompts still return polished answers. Yet the internal context that made those answers useful may have disappeared.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-08-26.
Cloudflare is giving website owners a clearer say over how automated systems use their content. Publishers have good reason to welcome that. The catch is that a rule meant to prevent AI training may also shut out a crawler that helps people find the site.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-08-25.
Customers should not have to play detective to work out whether there is a human at the other end. Yet many chatbots still open with a neutral "Hello, how can I help?" without mentioning that their responses are generated by AI.
Could your business use this? nowa.dk sets up AI automation for Danish companies.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-08-24.
For many publishers, the answer is yes. Add it as a measured audience experiment, though, rather than expecting it to repair search traffic on its own.
Google’s embeddable Preferred Sources button lets an existing reader signal that they want to see more from a publication. After selecting a site, that reader is more likely to encounter its fresh, relevant content in Top Stories. Preferred links may also be highlighted in AI Overviews and AI Mode.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-08-23.
Your most searchable content may not live on your website. It might be a YouTube video, an Instagram post or a TikTok clip. Until now, that activity sat outside the usual Search Console view, leaving a gap between what people found in Google and what marketing teams could report.
Platform properties close part of that gap. Organisations can now see how eligible Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube accounts perform when their content appears in Google Search.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-08-22.
An AI workflow approves the wrong request. Or it retrieves an outdated document, then sends an unsuitable action to another system. Every service has logs, and every request may even show as successful. Still, nobody can explain how the workflow arrived at the result.
That is the useful test of AI observability. Can the team take one consequential decision and reconstruct it from the original trigger through retrieval, model processing and tool calls to the final change in a business system?
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-08-21.
A security questionnaire may look like an administrative detail. But when it reaches the sales team, the search begins: Where is the current security policy? Which data processing agreement applies to this particular service? Is the audit report still valid, and who can answer the technical question?
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-08-20.
Apple has mailed every developer account an email titled "Updated Apple Developer Program License Agreement Now Available". The update adds Attachment 14, which covers alternative distribution terms in the EU, and it takes effect on October 1, 2026. To accept it, someone has to sign in at https://developer.apple.com/account and click a button. On paper that is a two-minute job.
By Greg Nowak. Last updated 2026-08-20.
Cloudflare Workflows is built around a useful idea: break a business process into logical steps, save progress between them and retry a failed step without rerunning everything that came before it. Since August 10, 2026, that design has a more visible cost. Workers Paid plans are now billed for executed steps and persisted state.
