Progress Residential, which manages over 90,000 single-family rental homes, and its owner Pretium Partners will pay $49.75 million to settle charges from the FTC and Arizona, Colorado, Indiana and Utah that they advertised false rental prices, charged hidden fees, improperly withheld security deposits and used nondisparagement clauses in form contracts. The proposed order, announced Nov. 6, 2026, requires Progress to advertise a "true total monthly rental price" that includes all mandatory recurring fees more prominently than any other price, and bars standardized nondisparagement clauses.

The order binds only Progress and Pretium. It still shows how the FTC and four state attorneys general define deceptive pricing: if a fee is mandatory, it belongs in the advertised price. Example: a 14-person plumbing company advertises "Drain cleaning from $89" on its website and Google profile. Every job also carries a mandatory $49 trip charge and a $15 "service admin" fee that customers first see on the invoice. The customer was shown $89 and pays $153, and 42% of the bill was never shown up front. That is the same pattern the FTC called deceptive in this case. The second risk is a service agreement that forbids negative reviews. The FTC alleged these clauses are unlawful, and federal law has generally voided them in consumer form contracts since 2016. Owners who sell to homeowners and advertise prices should care, especially in Arizona, Colorado, Indiana and Utah, whose attorneys general joined this case. Firms that bill only businesses, or that quote every job custom with all fees on the quote, can ignore it.

In its Nov. 6, 2026 weekly recap, Google said Workspace admins can now set custom policy text in the admin console that is shown in the Google Meet green room before users join a call. Google says the feature is meant to help users at your organization know your rules for meeting recordings, transcriptions and notes taken by Gemini.

This is a free reminder screen, not a compliance tool. Take an 18-person accounting firm where 10 staff use Gemini to take notes on client calls. The admin can add two lines: "Ask the client before you record or turn on Gemini notes. Save notes to the client folder, not your own Drive." Every staff member then sees that text before every Meet call. Setup takes about an hour, mostly spent agreeing on the wording. There are limits. Google describes the text as shown to users at your organization, and the recap does not say external guests see it. It does not replace asking clients for consent. About a dozen states, including California, require every party's consent to record. The recap also does not say which Workspace editions get the setting or when it reaches every account. Law firms, accounting firms and agencies that record client calls should set it up. Trades shops that do not record Meet calls or use Gemini notes can ignore it.

On Friday, Nov. 6, OpenAI's status page reported payment declines on some U.S. business Mastercards, including some Brex cards, with affected card numbers beginning 544015, 546400, 543502, 543799 or 512998, and some beginning 513989. OpenAI said the declines can block API automatic recharges and one-time credit purchases, so API requests may fail once a prepaid balance runs out; later that day it said it had applied a mitigation and was monitoring recovery.

This only matters if your business holds its own OpenAI API account on prepaid credits and pays for it with an affected card. Take a 25-person accounting firm with a Make scenario that sends new client emails to the OpenAI API for summaries and tagging. Assume auto-recharge adds $50 when the balance falls below $10, paid on the firm's Brex card. If that recharge is declined, the scenario keeps running until the last $10 is spent, then every call fails. Intake emails stop getting tagged, and an admin sorts them by hand. Assume that takes 2 hours a day at $45 an hour, or $90 for each day nobody notices. OpenAI's notice covers API billing only. It says nothing about ChatGPT seat subscriptions. If your AI features come built into a vendor's product and the vendor pays OpenAI, there is nothing for you to do. If your card starts with a different six digits, you can ignore this.