I'm John Batchel with my good colleague, Gene Marks, who's on the road to talk about small business in America.

He's a small business columnist for The Guardian, for the Philadelphia Inquiry, writes at Forbes, writes in many distinguished publications.

And we're specializing in AI today because it comes up during the week

now. It's integrated into my workday. I use grok. That's Ara is the voice of grog. I use Anthropic,

which is owned by Amazon, because it's a perfect copy editor. The only way I'll ever make a mistake in an email again is to be too lazy to ask anthropic to correct.

It's called Claude.

We get it, cloud, clawed.

It's very good.

I also use Google's notebook L.M, which I recommend to everyone who wants to transfer voice data, such as this

podcast or a radio show, into written text. So you can tell other people what you talked

about and not have to listen to an hour and a half of talk before you get what you want.

All of that is an experience that becomes cumulative during the week.

And then something happens.

And what happened this week is worth noting because we're already integrated.

Already.

It's not coming.

It's here.

Gene, what happened to Amazon Web Services?

I believe it was Tuesday.

It was reported.

And did it affect your work?

So AWS, Amazon Web Services, is the fastest growing part of Amazon.

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