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Here’s What Actually Happened There’s a lot of hype right now about AI “agents” that can just go off and do real work for you, log into your accounts, complete tasks, come back when it’s done. We decided to actually test that claim properly, using our own sample WordPress site as a real-world task: log The post We Tried Letting an AI Agent Log Into Our Website – couldn’t even do that! appeared first on Sales & Marketing Course Academy.

How EUFY Stacks Up Against Google Home and the Rest “Smart home” used to mean a handful of coloured light bulbs and a voice assistant that mostly understood you. In 2026 it means security cameras, robot vacuums, video doorbells and displays And, they are all expected to talk to each other, ideally without locking you The post Digital Homes in 2026: Digital Robotic Vacuum Cleaners appeared first on Sales & Marketing Course Academy.

  These digital devices connect your home to the Internet. Wall-mounted family calendars have had a real moment lately, JB Hi-Fi now stocks Skylight in-store, “smart calendar” ads are everywhere, and everyone’s trying to solve the same problem: too many family commitments living in too many different apps. We had a close look at three The post Skylight vs Frameo vs EUFY E10? – Which Wall Calendar Actually Syncs With Google or Outlook? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Course Academy.

  Why “Monthly SMS Credits” Aren’t Always What They Seem We recently went through Mailchimp’s SMS sign-up flow (it’s owned by Intuit these days) and hit a screen worth flagging for anyone doing digital and SMS marketing: a recommended 1,000 SMS credits for A$28.16 a month, with higher tiers running all the way up to The post Mailchimp vs TextMagic: What happens to unused monthly credits? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Course Academy.

Here’s Why That’s a Really Big Deal Most businesses would be thrilled with a 20% email open rate. We just looked at the stats on one of our automated welcome emails for our free payroll training sample, and the numbers stopped us in our tracks: 373 emails sent, 92% opened, and 45% clicked through to The post We Just Got a 92% Email Open Rate. appeared first on Sales & Marketing Course Academy.

  Inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face Incident You may have seen the headlines this week: OpenAI’s own AI agents “hacked” the platform Hugging Face, coordinated with each other in secret, and then tried to cover their tracks. It sounds like science fiction. It’s real, it happened in July 2026, and both OpenAI and a set of The post Can AI Software Really “Go Rogue”? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Course Academy.

  The New “AI Teammate” You Install on Your Own Computer If you’ve seen people talking about “Grok Bot” lately and assumed it was just another chatbot, it’s worth a proper look, because it’s a genuinely different kind of product to the AI chat windows most of us are used to. Grok Bot launched in The post What Is Grok Bot? Elon’s new AI Agent we can all use? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Course Academy.

Meta settled for $23 billion because of these Features Meta has agreed to pay up to $US18 billion ($23.6 billion AUD) and roll out a new set of child-safety features across Facebook and Instagram, settling a landmark case brought by nearly every US state over claims the platforms were deliberately designed to be addictive to The post What Makes Facebook and Instagram “Addictive” for Teenagers? appeared first on Sales & Marketing Course Academy.