{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69f3e0f28beeba531023e35c/6ae50511b478422f912ceb0f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Week of October 26 2026","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69f3e0f28beeba531023e35c/1793393894436-79a9d352-6009-4597-9301-2ab95ef41580.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>A robot tried to walk into more than 2,250 businesses in one week — and it didn&#39;t pick a single lock. It used a master key a backup company had been holding for years, the kind your IT guy set up and everybody forgot about. Same week, Goldman Sachs and the four big AI companies put half a billion dollars behind free AI school for small shops, and the Fed found the shops already using AI are <em>more</em> likely to hire. Robots coming at you, robots being handed to you — same question for both: who&#39;s holding the keys?</p><p><strong>In this episode:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>A robot broke into the IT guy&#39;s backup tool.</strong> ConnectWise&#39;s cloud backup — used by more than 100,000 IT shops, by its own count — had a key into every customer&#39;s email that ever trusted it. Microsoft says a China-tied group pointed an AI agent at it and had admin access to some companies in under three hours. Your shop did nothing wrong. Your vendor&#39;s vendor left a door open. You can outsource the work; you can&#39;t outsource the ownership.</li><li><strong>Free AI school for small shops.</strong> Goldman Sachs&#39; 10,000 Small Businesses program is launching a Small Business AI Institute with Anthropic, Google, Meta and OpenAI. Its own grads: more than eight in ten use AI now, and three in four spend under $100 a month. Goldman&#39;s CEO: &quot;There&#39;s very little that we do where we need frontier models.&quot; The problem isn&#39;t the tool — it&#39;s that nobody&#39;s taught Patty.</li><li><strong>The shops using the robot plan to hire.</strong> The New York Fed split 5,000+ small employers into AI users and non-users. The AI shops were about ten points more likely to expect to <em>add</em> people — even though only about three in ten have seen more sales from it yet. The robot isn&#39;t the revenue. The robot is the hours.</li><li><strong>Spotlight — Google Ads Asset Studio vs. Meta&#39;s photo-to-video ads:</strong> two free robots that want to make your fall tune-up video. One <em>writes the story</em> from your website and photos (Google — free inside Google Ads, built for YouTube in your zip code). The other <em>moves what you already have</em> (Meta — a toggle on your image ads in Ads Manager). Which for which shop, and why a stale website makes a bad ad either way.</li><li><strong>The Operator&#39;s Move (tool-free):</strong> <em>&quot;Ask your IT person what has the master key.&quot;</em> One phone call, one page: every outside company with admin access to your email, files and bank feed — and when anyone last actually restored a file.</li></ul><p><strong>🔗 Show Notes &amp; Sources</strong></p><p><strong>Story 1 — The ConnectWise backup key</strong></p><ul><li><a href=\"https://darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/microsoft-storm-0940-connectwise-supply-chain-attack\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Dark Reading — &quot;Microsoft Links Storm-0940 to ConnectWise Supply Chain Attack&quot;</a></li><li><a href=\"https://csoonline.com/article/4239028/china-linked-hackers-used-agentic-ai-in-attack-on-2250-microsoft-365-tenants.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CSO Online — &quot;China-linked hackers used agentic AI in attack on 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants&quot;</a></li><li><a href=\"https://helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/19/connectwise-cloud-backup-suspended-security-incident\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Help Net Security — &quot;ConnectWise suspends Cloud Backup service after attackers abuse its Microsoft 365 access&quot;</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-breach-microsoft-365-tenants-via-connectwise-supply-chain-attack/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">BleepingComputer — &quot;Hackers breach Microsoft 365 tenants via ConnectWise supply-chain attack&quot;</a></li></ul><p><strong>Story 2 — Goldman Sachs Small Business AI Institute</strong></p><ul><li><a href=\"https://fortune.com/2026/10/23/david-solomon-frontier-models-not-needed-small-business/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fortune — David Solomon on why small businesses don&#39;t need frontier models</a></li><li><a href=\"https://thenextweb.com/news/goldman-sachs-frontier-models-small-business-ai-institute-500m\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Next Web — &quot;Goldman Sachs puts $500M into small-business AI with four AI labs&quot;</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.axios.com/2026/10/22/goldman-sachs-state-ai-data\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Axios — &quot;How small businesses are really using AI around the country&quot;</a></li></ul><p><strong>Story 3 — AI shops expect to hire</strong></p><ul><li><a href=\"https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/10/ai-adoption-and-employment-expectations-evidence-from-a-survey-of-small-business-owners/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">New York Fed, Liberty Street Economics — &quot;AI Adoption and Employment Expectations: Evidence from a Survey of Small Business Owners&quot;</a></li></ul><p><strong>Spotlight — Google Ads Asset Studio vs. Meta Advantage+ video</strong></p><ul><li><a href=\"https://business.google.com/us/accelerate/announcements/create-on-brand-video-ads-with-gemini-omni-creative-drop-1/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Google — &quot;Create On-Brand Video Ads with Gemini Omni (Creative Drop #1)&quot;</a></li><li><a href=\"https://ppc.land/google-ads-asset-studio-beta-now-available-to-advertisers-worldwide/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PPC Land — &quot;Google Ads Asset Studio beta now available to advertisers worldwide&quot;</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.techjuice.pk/meta-ai-advertising-tools-advertising-week-2026/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">TechJuice — Meta&#39;s new AI advertising tools at Advertising Week 2026</a></li></ul>","author_name":"Shaun Gehring"}