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AI assistants can now handle the comparison work local customers used to do themselves. Local search used to leave that work to the customer: someone typed a query, got a list of options, opened a few, and chose. Ask an assistant for a business recommendation now, and it returns a short list it has already…

Dean Day, a business consultant for the Louisiana Small Business Development Center at McNeese State University, speaks to members of the Kiwanis Club of Lake Charles on Tuesday at The Charleston in downtown Lake Charles. (Crystal Stevenson / American Press)

Concerns surrounding Cyclospora are changing the way some Oklahoma shoppers buy their produce, with one local market reporting a sharp increase in lettuce sales as customers look for locally sourced options.

The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in some of the Sault’s young people.

is attractive when working with private data or building workflows that should run on our own machine.

City administrators, county officials and school leaders in Iowa may sign up for free training to help develop back up plans for technology failures.

U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Illinois, visited Joliet Junior College on Wednesday to hear more about a federally funded business development program and told of his own venture into the restaurant business.

Delivered 14% Revenue Growth, Improved Net Loss, and 17% Improvement in Adjusted EBITDA Loss

TL;DR — I replayed 27 real tasks from my own AI agent against two local models, one hardware upgrade apart, scoring both against the same frozen Claude baseline. On a single RTX 3090 capped at a 16K context, a 30B model scored 22.8/100 to Claude’s 89.4, and leaked malformed tool-call syntax into a quarter of…

York County businesses have more marketing options than they did five years ago, and telling them apart has gotten harder. Web designers offer SEO. SEO firms offer web design. Nearly everyone claims local search expertise, and most of them mean the same handful of tactics.