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AI product video: what ships, and what needs a label

Generated video works for the frames where your product is not the subject. Which listing jobs it can take, and what YouTube and TikTok ask you to label.

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This week

What we wrote this week.

We write when we have something to say, not when the calendar says.

SEP 09 · 5 MIN

Invoice fraud in the AI era: the checks that still work

Generative AI made supplier invoice fraud cheaper to run, not different. What actually changed, what did not, and the verification a small business can afford.

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SEP 09 · 5 MIN

Virtual try on for small shops: what it really cuts

Google enrols apparel feeds in virtual try on automatically. What the two systems actually are, what your images must look like, and why fit is the real lever.

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SEP 09 · 5 MIN

ChatGPT Images 2.5 lands: what it changes for product photos

OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Images 2.5 on 8 September 2026. The line that matters to a shop is reference photo fidelity, not sharper rendering. Here is the split.

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SEP 09 · 5 MIN

Abandoned cart recovery: what AI can and cannot fix

Seven carts in ten are abandoned, but most were never sales. Which reasons a recovery email can address, and which of them need a checkout change instead.

The MaShop blog

AI product video: what ships, and what needs a label

What we wrote this week.

Invoice fraud in the AI era: the checks that still work

Virtual try on for small shops: what it really cuts

ChatGPT Images 2.5 lands: what it changes for product photos

Abandoned cart recovery: what AI can and cannot fix

AI for Small Business: What It Does, Job by Job

For AI Shopping Assistants, the Fight Is Discovery

Everything we have written so far.

The Mockup Looked Perfect. The Shirt Did Not

The Rota Changes for Reasons a Forecast Cannot See

What a Small Business Really Spends on AI Each Month

An Algorithm Suspended Your Shop. What Happens Next

The Assistant Sending You Buyers Is No Longer Just ChatGPT

The Personalisation You Can Run Without Asking Permission

AI in a Restaurant: What to Hand Over, and in Which Order

The AI Photo Is Allowed. The Missing Tag Is Not.

Washington Told a Court That AI Training Is Fair Use

Open Weights Is Not Open Source, and the Licence Says So

Which Computer Vision Task Is Your Problem, Really?

What Content Credentials Prove, and What They Do Not

The Accuracy Number Your Transcription Vendor Quotes You

Instagram's New AI Label: What Your Shop Must Declare

How an AI Voice Is Built, and Why It Says Your Name Wrong

How an AI Image Generator Really Works, and What You Own

The Detector Scored Well. Your Video Is Not the Test Set.

0.12 Stars, and Why the Reply Has to Sound Human

When a Machine Buys From You, Who Agreed to What?

Your Assistant Invented a Policy. That Is Not a Bug.

Two Publishers Sued an AI Lab. Your Ad Music Is Why.

Google Does Not Rank Your Page on Who Wrote It

They Offered to Match Every Face That Walks In

Someone Cloned Your Shop, and It Took Them an Afternoon

The AI Features Your Tools Switched On Without Asking

The Help Center Is Already in Your Support Inbox

AI Dubbing: Why It Sounds Wrong to a Native Ear

You Can Sell What the AI Made. You May Not Own It.

The AI Tool You Depend On Will Be Switched Off

Google Now Counts Your AI Search Impressions, Not Your Clicks

Allow, Block or Charge the AI Crawlers on Your Shop

The AI Logo You Cannot Copyright but Can Trademark

The Rules That Decide If Your Email Reaches the Inbox

The Legal Fields Missing From Most Product Listings

What an AI Assistant Asks For Before It Touches Your Inbox

How Many Ad Variants Before the Winner Is Real

Writing Product Descriptions With AI Without Sounding Like AI

GPU Cost: The Same H100 at $0.35 or $14.90 an Hour

AI Penetration Testing: What It Speeds Up and What It Fakes

LLM Observability: The Trace That Explains a Bad Answer

AI Red Teaming: A Method, Not a Point-and-Run Scanner

The LLM Gateway: One Control Point in Front of Every Model

LLM Guardrails Give You a Rate, Not a Guarantee

Your Laptop and Your AI Tools Just Got a Memory Problem

An AI Guesses Their Age, Give or Take Three Years

Do You Have to Tell Customers They Are Talking to a Bot?

Your Search Box Is Where the Sale Quietly Dies

A Machine Rejected Your Ad. Here Is What It Read.

Five Stars for a Discount Is Now a Banned Practice

Meta AI Now Reads Your Ad Account, and Wants Your Inbox Too

A Customer Asked You to Delete Everything. Can You?

The Customs Code on Your Parcel Is Your Legal Statement

The Security Form Your AI Vendor Passes Without Trying

Switch It On in August. Freeze It in November.

Moving a Catalogue: the Fields You Must Not Let AI Touch

Your Chatbot Made a Promise. A Tribunal Made It Binding.

The Overlay Promised Compliance. A Regulator Disagreed.

Ads Reached ChatGPT in Europe Before the Advertisers Did

The Business Is in Your Head. Get It Onto One Page

Two Thousand Rows, One Feed Rejection, and Why

Amazon Says Its Sellers Barely Edit the AI Draft

Your Customers Now Ask a Machine Where to Go

Someone Ordered 1,000 Books. Nobody Was Reading Them

The Router Is Not the Clever Part. Your Address Data Is

The Chargeback Arrived. Now You Have Days, Not Weeks

One Order in Five Comes Back. Who Decides on the Refund?

What Actually Gets a Booked Customer to Turn Up

Product Recommendations When You Have Barely Any Data

Who Will Buy Again? What a Small Shop Can Predict

Someone Cloned a Voice and Called Your Business