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What's happening with AI in business: facts, primary sources, and named authors. In English, Russian, and Spanish.
Most sales calls to businesses sit outside the National Do Not Call rules, but the purpose of the call, specific exceptions, FCC rules, and truthfulness duties still shape compliance.
According to the FTC, most sales calls made to a business to get the business itself to buy are exempt from the National Do Not Call rules. A short video on where that exemption stops and what callers and receivers should do.
FCC 26-67 lets businesses limit an opt-out to one category of informational robocalls and name a clear opt-out method. Marketing opt-outs still stop all marketing robocalls from that caller.
On October 1, 2026 the FCC released order FCC 26-67. Once it takes effect, a STOP to an informational call or text may count only for its own category, while for ads and telemarketing one STOP still stops all. A short video on what changes and when.
A plain-language map of AI agent payment rails as of October 2026: x402 and its foundation, Google AP2, ACP, MPP, Visa and Mastercard, what changed since July, and why adoption numbers disagree.
A step-by-step walk through one x402 v2 payment: the 402 response, the PAYMENT-REQUIRED and PAYMENT-SIGNATURE headers, what the facilitator can and cannot do, fees, assets and refunds. Plus where the protocol fits and where it does not.
When an AI agent pays the wrong party or is tricked, Regulation E and Z set loss rules for unauthorized payments but never mention AI agents. Here is what they say, what the Fed's Waller asked, and what owners can check now.
What a clinic, law office or medspa can actually do today to accept payments from AI agents through Stripe, Shopify, Square or x402, and why capturing the phone request still comes first.
In February 2024 the FCC ruled that a call made with an AI generated voice counts as an artificial voice under the TCPA. The ruling covers calls your AI starts, not a customer calling in. Here is what it says on consent, identification and opt out.
The FCC's February 8, 2024 AI voice ruling covers outbound calls an AI starts. See when prior express consent and prior express written consent apply, plus what to check before dialing a customer.
The October 15 filing deadline is real for individual taxpayers with an IRS extension. The FTC's August case shows why a tax debt letter or sales call still needs an independent source check.
If you asked the IRS for more time, October 15 is the last day to file without penalties. Separately, the FTC's August 13 alert describes fake government letters about tax debt and gives three checks before you call or pay.
