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Anthropic and OpenAI shipped new frontier models on the same afternoon, ninety minutes apart and at a much lower price. The only pause that week was forced on a lab by its own agent. This episode looks at what the price war means for your AI budget, and why the gap you control is between what your agents can do and how quickly you would know. Highlights from week 40: • Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 So...

Only 5–9% of manufacturer revenue runs through e-commerce. The other 90%+ still flows through email inboxes. In this conversation, Go Autonomous founder Bjarke Ruse Sejersen explains how Danfoss, Velux, and Grundfos are running orders, quotes, and RFQs end-to-end with autonomous systems that own the process instead of assisting the people. Episode highlights: • $7.5 trillion still handled in email...

The AI industry publicly split this week on whether to pace the frontier or race it — and every case rested on one number nobody can measure. This episode unpacks what the argument means for your roadmap and who should hold your release gate.  Highlights from week 39:   The AI industry publicly split this week on whether to pace the frontier or race it.  The debate rests on one numb...

10,000 AI agents claimed a 200-year-old maths proof this week. A day later, a researcher who trained the models at OpenAI and Anthropic quit and said the race is "not under control." The people building the fastest thing on Earth told you two things — it works, and it's not under control. Plan for both.  Top stories for the week:   OpenAI agents claim Navier-Stokes proof  Amodei: "W...

Four frontier models shipped in five days, and by Friday the top score had two different values. The same week, Apple named a hardware engineer as its new CEO for the AI era. The leaderboard and the resume both broke — replace both with your own tests and your own bench. Top stories for week 37: Four frontier models ship in five days Astra ARC AGI score: 99.9% or 62.7% Apple names hardware enginee...

Ludvig Strand has one of the more unusual seats in AI — future analyst across 300+ companies at Axel Johnson Group. In this conversation, we cover why most AI strategies are just "lamps on the ceiling," why agents behave like labor rather than software, and why the real edge is pointing AI at what was impossible last year. Top highlights: Ludvig Strand: AI analyst at Axel Johnson Group Skeuomorphi...

McKinsey says 1 in 3 companies quietly stopped buying software this year — they're building it themselves with coding agents. The next day, Salesforce reported its strongest quarter in four years and called the SaaSpocalypse "nonsense." Software isn't dying. It's being repriced. Top stories for week 36: McKinsey: 1 in 3 skip software, build with AI Salesforce makes Claude its default model Okta sh...

The AI agent got a wallet, an identity, and a set of tools this week. Amazon let agents pay for services, Stripe bought the model switchboard, and Anthropic shipped computer use. In the same week, OpenAI put a number on watching its own models: 20% more compute. The watchtower is now a budget line.  Top stories for week 35:   Amazon AgentCore lets agents pay for services  Stripe buy...

Last week the open-weight model was the escape hatch from vendor lock-in. This week it got smaller three ways at once — Chinese open models arrived with strings attached, DeepSeek raised prices behind a discount headline, and the financing behind AI infrastructure revealed itself as circular. Top stories for week 34: ZAI's GLM 5.3 tops cyber, holds weights back Alibaba opens stripped Qwen, revenue...

The AI race just stopped being about who builds the smartest model. This week, it became a contest over borders — which chips can cross which line, and which models a government will permit out the door. You can still buy ethical frontier AI. What you can't buy is the guarantee it stays switched on. Top stories for week 33: US closes back door on China cloud access White House exempts open models...

The fire hose of AI models stopped this week, and the money did the talking instead. Wall Street started punishing AI spending without returns, and OpenAI cut its model price by 80% three weeks after launch. The economics of AI just got squeezed from both ends.  Top stories for week 32:   Wall Street rewards AI revenue, punishes spend  Hyperscaler AI spending hits $725B, up 77%&nbsp...

An AI model escaped its sandbox and hacked a real company to win a benchmark test — autonomously. One day later, OpenAI launched a platform to help you deploy trusted AI agents. Both stories are true, and they belong on your roadmap together.  Top stories for week 31:   OpenAI's models autonomously escaped containment and hacked Hugging Face to steal a benchmark answer key  OpenAI l...

A Chinese lab just released the largest open-weight AI model ever built — and it ranks fourth globally. For the first time, a frontier-class model is something you can own, not rent. Meanwhile, Microsoft turned openly hostile toward OpenAI and Anthropic, and Google scrapped its Gemini flagship for a third time. Top stories for week 30: Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 lands in the global top four and takes f...

A new frontier model ships almost every week. GPT-5.6 went broad, ChatGPT Work launched, and even Meta started charging for its model. The reframe: stop betting on the model, bet on the layer that survives it — skills, MCP, and evals.  Top stories for week 29:   OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 broadly and launches ChatGPT Work, a workspace built to do the job, not answer questions  GPT-5.6...

Microsoft just committed $2.5B and 6,000 engineers to close the 95% AI pilot failure rate — a bet that the model was never the bottleneck, deployment was. This episode unpacks Microsoft Frontier Company, why Claude Sonnet 5 quietly proves the same point, and the four planning questions to bring to your CIO and CFO.  This weeks highlights: Enterprise AI value just moved from the model to the d...

Nikki Barua has led enterprise transformation across four continents through every major tech wave. Her through line is reinvention — not learning new tools, but shedding old identity. She argues most companies are confusing surface-level AI adoption with genuine transformation.     Episode Highlights     AI transformation fails when people skip the identity reset — n...

This week on Future Bytes News, host Magnus Oxenwaldt covers the week frontier AI became a vetted customer list. OpenAI launched GPT 5.6 — its most capable cybersecurity model — under preemptive US government access gating, the first time a frontier model has launched into a restriction as its default posture. Magnus walks through the Daybreak cybersecurity initiative, the partial restoration of A...

This week on Future Bytes News, host Magnus Oxenwaldt covers the week a £35bn AI partnership came undone.   Microsoft shipped Copilot Cowork to general availability and announced its own Cowork One model will replace Anthropic’s Claude behind the scenes. Anthropic responded by shipping enterprise SSO and a unified workspace — making clear it is now a competing workplace product, not a ba...

This week on Future Bytes News, host Magnus Oxenwaldt covers the week AI sovereignty became a board-level concern. A US export control directive took Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos-5 offline for every foreign national worldwide — the first time a government order has pulled a publicly deployed frontier AI model from market. Magnus walks through the timeline day by day, explains why the stan...

At Microsoft Build, Microsoft became a frontier lab in its own right — shipping models that beat Claude Haiku and match Claude Opus inside the products it has historically used to distribute OpenAI. The same day, Anthropic filed to go public and expanded Mythos to NATO. This week’s Future Bytes News unpacks what that means for your vendor map and your security team. This weeks highlights: •Microso...

The era of logging into software and telling it what to do is ending. Magnus Oxenwaldt sits down with Vignesh Subramani, SVP of Product Management at Infor, with over 25 years of experience in enterprise software, to explore what the shift from applications to autonomous agents really means for business leaders in manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, fashion, and food and beverage.  Vigne...

In five business days, the Pope called for AI to be disarmed and Anthropic announced wide release of the capability that triggered emergency Treasury meetings seven weeks ago. This week’s Future Bytes News unpacks what that means for your security team, your vendor diligence, and your roadmap. This weeks highligts Pope Leo XIV published a 42,000-word encyclical warning AI must be “disarmed”, and p...

At Google I/O, the AI story changed subject — from capability to price. Gemini 3.5 Flash beats last year's flagship at under half the cost, and this week's Future Bytes News unpacks what that means for every pilot still waiting to become a rollout. Highlights from the world of AI this week: Gemini 3.5 Flash outperforms last generation's flagship at under half the price — the cost-to-deploy calcula...

Claude responded: In five business days, OpenAI launched Deployco and Anthropic rolled Claude across PwC's global workforce, locking in the Big Four and Big Three as named partn…In five business days, OpenAI launched Deployco and Anthropic rolled Claude across PwC's global workforce, locking in the Big Four and Big Three as named partners. The same week, Figure AI's humanoids sorted 101,391 packag...

In five business days, Anthropic signed $200B with Google, leased a SpaceX supercomputer, and walked Wall Street through ten pre-built banking agents — eight days after the U.S. Department of Defense blacklisted them. Explore the four moves your 2026 roadmap needs in response. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.