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Small Business Daily Podcast 01/04/2026
Welcome back to the Small Business Daily Podcast. Today’s podcast episode was created from the following stories:
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt jumps into the AI data center business with a failed Texas railroad
Eric Schmidt has launched Bolt Data & Energy to build massive AI power and data infrastructure in rural West Texas, tapping a former railroad-turned-oil giant to amass enough power for millions of homes. The move underscores how AIs growth is now constrained by energy and land, not just chips. For small businesses, expect rising opportunities around grid services, construction, and local supply chains near new data center hubs.
Elon Musk’s xAI expands Palo Alto footprint with two new office leases
xAI quietly leased and is renovating nearly 100,000 square feet of additional Palo Alto office space into open layouts. The expansion signals sustained hiring and product acceleration in the competitive AI market. Local vendors, recruiters, and services firms could see increased demand as the company scales.
Schedule WhatsApp, Instagram & Telegram messages and more
TikTask is a privacy-first scheduler that automates messages, polls, likes, comments, and follows across WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, Signal, Gmail, Viber, and Slackwith data kept on your device and optional Google Drive backups. Repeat rules, recipient lists, text buckets, and smart variables make it useful for consistent marketing and customer outreach. For small teams, its a lightweight way to systematize social and messaging campaigns without handing data to a third party.
The sovereign code execution engine for AI agents
Boxed is an open-source engine that spins up ephemeral, isolated sandboxes to safely run agent-written codeavoiding local security risks, cloud costs, and SaaS lock-in. It features sub-second startup, Docker-based isolation (with Firecracker planned), strict network controls, and SDKs for TypeScript and Python. If youre building AI-powered tools, this offers a secure, fast, and sovereign way to execute untrusted code.
lazyworktree – Lazy Git Worktree Manager
lazyworktree is a BubbleTea-based terminal UI that makes it easy to manage Git worktrees, visualize repo health, and jump between branches, with integrations for GitHub/GitLab PR/MR status and tmux sessions. Features like cherry-pick across worktrees, AI-powered branch-name hooks, and Trust-on-First-Use security streamline daily dev workflows. Its a productivity boost for teams juggling multiple features and hotfixes in parallel.
