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Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Monday AI coffee break.
Anthropic‘s CEO asked the whole industry to slow down and Sam Altman and Elon Musk actually said yes, OpenAI is taking an IPO off the table for 2026, and Anthropic itself is heading the other way with a second profitable quarter.
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AI News around the world 🌍
🐢 Anthropic CEO published an essay urging AI labs to slow frontier development, and Sam Altman and Elon Musk both publicly backed him. (continue reading)
📉 Sam Altman told Fortune that OpenAI will not go public in 2026, calling an IPO right now ill-advised given OpenAI safety concerns. (continue reading)
💰 Anthropic told investors it expects a second straight profitable quarter as it lines up a Nasdaq IPO valued above $2 trillion. (continue reading)
🧑💼 Salesforce gave Agentforce seven named agents with actual job titles, plus a runtime that lets them chase goals across days and weeks. (continue reading)
🐡 Sakana AI launched Fugu Max, an orchestration model that routes tasks to cheaper open models for $2 per million input tokens. (continue reading)
Trending AI Tools 🛠
🎙️ GladiaFlow: Talking is faster than typing. GladiaFlow turns your voice into text in any app, across 100+ languages, and picks up your jargon and names so you don’t have to keep correcting it. No subscription needed; just pay for what you use. 👉 Try it
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Tutorials 📝
Career & Capital 💼
AI Job Board
🔐 American Express: Agentic AI Cybersecurity Engineer, Identity Access Lifecycle Management – $103,750 to $174,750 (view job)
🧪 World Mechanics: Research Scientist, Physical AI / Interpretability (SF Bay Area) – $250,000 to $400,000 (view job)
🐾 Nestlé Purina: Expert Data Scientist, Enterprise AI & ML (St. Louis) – $130,000 to $188,000 (view job)
Investments in AI
⚖️ Harvey, the legal AI platform now past $400 million in annual revenue, raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation co-led by Lightspeed and Diffusion. (link)
🔋 Positron AI landed $875 million at a $5 billion valuation, five times its February price, to ship inference chips that swap pricey HBM for commodity memory. (link)
Prompt of the Week 🧠
Hire, Contract or Automate → Turn “we need another person” into a decision you can defend in the budget meeting.
Prompt:
You are my head of operations and finance partner. I am building next year's budget and there is a role I think we need to hire. Before I open the req, pressure-test whether this should be a full-time hire, a contractor or fractional specialist, or a workflow (AI plus tools plus a process change), and give me the version I can defend in the budget meeting. Here is the situation: - Business: [what you sell, team size, stage] - The role I want to open: [title, and the one-line reason it came up] - The work it would actually do: [list the recurring tasks, rough hours per week for each, and who does them today] - What is breaking because nobody owns this: [missed deadlines, dropped leads, founder time, quality issues] - Fully loaded cost of the hire: [salary plus roughly 25 to 30 percent for taxes, tools and management time] - Budget and timing: [when it needs to be solved, and what I can spend] - Tools we already pay for: [CRM, AI subscriptions, automation platforms, anything with unused capacity] Work through five steps: 1. TASK SPLIT. Sort every task in the role into three buckets: judgment work that needs a human who knows our business, repeatable work a contractor could own with a clear brief, and structured work that AI or automation could handle with a human checking the output. Show the hours per week in each bucket so I can see what this "job" is really made of. 2. THREE OPTIONS, PRICED. Put the full-time hire, the contractor option and the workflow option side by side: annual cost, time until fully productive, what breaks if it goes wrong, and how easily I can reverse it in six months. Use my numbers, not industry averages, and flag any input that looks off. 3. THE HONEST CASE. Tell me which option you would recommend and why, in three sentences a CFO would accept. If the hire is the right call, say so plainly. If the role is really two half-roles, or a process problem in disguise, say that too. 4. THE 90-DAY VERSION. Whatever you recommend, give me a 90-day plan with the first two weeks in detail: what gets documented, what gets automated or handed off first, and the metric that proves it is working at day 30, 60 and 90. 5. THE BUDGET SLIDE. Write the one-paragraph justification and a five-line cost comparison table I can paste into the budget deck, plus the two questions leadership is most likely to ask and a one-line answer to each. Finish with the single condition under which I should revisit this decision, for example "if inbound volume passes X per month, convert the contractor to a hire." Ask me for any missing inputs before you start.
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