AI Models & Agents Correspondent
Dev Khanna
Freelance AI writer, helping brands cut through the noise of every new model and agent.
Covers AI Models · AI Agents · ChatGPT · Gemini · Claude · Automation · Product Launches
Dev reads the release notes so you do not have to. He has followed frontier AI since before it was a dinner-table topic, and he has a knack for spotting which launches actually change how a small business should work, and which are just noise.
He writes for brands that feel they are falling behind on AI. His pieces take a week of breathless announcements and leave you with one clear thing to try on Monday.
Endlessly curious and mildly allergic to hype, he tests the new thing himself before he ever recommends it.
Dev is available for freelance commissions. Get in touch to work together.
Latest from Dev
20 storiesStrategy
Google's New Product Markup Can Put Your Store in Front of More Buyers
Google quietly expanded the product data it reads from your website, including a new category field and proper sale start and end dates. For online stores, it is a cheap way to win more visibility in search.
4 min read
AI Agents
You Can Now See What an AI Is Thinking, Not Just What It Says
Anthropic just showed it can read some of what an AI is thinking, not only what it writes, and used it to catch a model lying, being manipulated, and hiding its goal. Here is why that matters for trusting AI with real work.
6 min read
Strategy
Studio-Quality Photos and Video Just Got Cheap Enough for Anyone
Google just released AI models that make a polished product photo in about four seconds and a short video for cents. The visual gap between a corner shop and a big brand is closing fast.
4 min read
Strategy
Capable AI Keeps Getting Cheaper. Claude Sonnet 5 Is the Latest Proof
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on 30 June, with performance close to its flagship model at a lower price. The headline is not a new trick, it is that genuinely capable AI keeps getting cheaper, and that changes the maths for a small business.
5 min read
Strategy
AI Works When Experienced People Steer It. Just Ask Ford.
Ford leaned on AI for its quality checks, then brought back 350 veteran engineers when the results fell short. The lesson for a small business is not to fear AI, but to put experience in charge of it.
5 min read
Small Business
The Small Businesses Winning With AI Are the Least Technical Ones
A seed farm, a family tamale shop and an 86-year-old salvage yard are getting real work done with plain ChatGPT. The lesson for Australian owners: the advantage is not a clever model, it is everyday use.
5 min read
Strategy
OpenAI's Most Capable AI Yet Launched With the Brakes On
OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 Sol, its most capable model yet, then held the wider release back at the US government's request. The story that matters for your business is hiding in the two cheaper tiers beside it.
7 min read
AI Agents
AI Can Now Operate the Software Your Business Runs On
A new tool lets an AI agent see a screen and use software the way a person does: clicking, typing and moving across the apps your business already runs on. The prize is the quiet screen work it can take off your team.
6 min read
AI Agents
Now You Can Tag an AI Teammate Into Your Work Chat
Anthropic just put an AI you can tag into a team chat, where it picks up a job and works through it on its own. The capability is real and arriving fast. The advantage is in deciding what to hand it, and how.
6 min read
AI Agents
The Web Is Being Rebuilt for AI Agents. Can Yours Be Found?
The big technology companies are quietly agreeing on how AI agents will find and use businesses across the web. For an Australian small business, getting found is about to mean more than ranking on a page a person reads.
5 min read
AI Agents
The Real AI Win Isn't Replacing People. It's Backing Them.
The world's largest tutoring marketplace just put AI on the admin so its human tutors can teach. For an Australian small business, that is the lesson worth copying: use AI to back your people, not replace them.
4 min read
Strategy
The Newest AI Isn't Always the Most Accurate. Plan For It
A benchmark that went viral this week suggested a brand new flagship model got it wrong more often, not less. Even OpenAI now simulates deployments to catch bad answers before release. For a small business, that is the lesson.
5 min read
Strategy
Google Vids Just Made AI Video Free for Every Business
Google has opened high-quality AI video generation in Google Vids to anyone with a Google account, for free. The hard part was never the camera. It was producing on-brand video at volume, week after week.
5 min read
AI Agents
AI Agents Are Acting on Your Behalf. Securing Them Is the New Job
AI no longer just answers questions, it takes actions. This week one of the world's top labs said it treats its own agents as a risk and builds guardrails to match. For a small business, that is the whole lesson.
5 min read
AI Agents
Agentic Commerce: When the AI Shops for Your Customers
AI assistants are moving from recommending products to actually buying them. For an Australian small business, the new question is not whether a customer can find you, but whether the assistant picks your product and completes the sale.
5 min read
AI Agents
Capable AI Now Runs on Your Own Laptop. That Changes the Maths.
Google's new Gemma 4 12B is small enough to run on an ordinary laptop, and a wave of developers say local models are finally good enough for real work. For a small business, that means powerful AI without the data leaving the building.
5 min read
AI Agents
AI Customer Service Just Got a $3.6 Billion Vote of Confidence
On 15 June, Salesforce agreed to buy the AI customer-service firm Fin for $3.6 billion. The message for small business is blunt: an AI agent that answers your customers around the clock is no longer experimental.
6 min read
Strategy
The Internet Erupted When Fable 5 Was Switched Off. The Reaction Is the Real Lesson.
When a government order forced Anthropic to pull Fable 5, its apology post drew 32 million views and 7,000 furious replies within hours. The backlash is a free lesson in how fragile rented AI access really is.
5 min read
Strategy
Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Get Your Product Feed Ready.
OpenAI just added product feed ads to ChatGPT's Ads Manager, turning the chat assistant into a shopping channel. It is US-only for now, but the prep work pays off everywhere your customers buy.
5 min read
AI Agents
Building AI Agents That Actually Help (Not Just Demo Well)
The gap between an impressive demo and a dependable agent is where most projects stall. Here is how we design agents that survive contact with real customers.
7 min read
