The AI Breakdown

AI Weekly Briefing: Lovable Raises Big and Salesforce Buys Qualified

AI is getting embedded everywhere and this week proved it. Salesforce is buying Qualified to power always on AI agents for pipeline. Lovable just raised big money at a massive valuation as vibe coding explodes. Microsoft and Google are leaning on partners to push AI from pilots to production. Notion reveals that AI now drives a huge chunk of revenue, and Zoom launches AI Companion 3.0 to turn meetings into actions.
But there’s a catch: Reuters reports that many companies still aren’t seeing the ROI they expected. So what separates hype from real value?

AI Weekly Briefing: Mouse Ears and Model Wars

In this week’s 10 minute AI news roundup, I break down a headline grabbing Disney move that could redefine what “legal generative AI” looks like at scale. Disney is reportedly investing $1 billion in OpenAI, negotiating warrants for optionality, licensing a vault of iconic characters for Sora, and rolling out ChatGPT across the company with strict guardrails. But the backlash is already here, with the Writers Guild of America warning this is a turning point in the fight over creative labour and value.
Then we jump into the model wars. OpenAI ships GPT 5.2 with a massive 400k context window and tiered variants for speed, deep analysis, and maximum accuracy, while Google counters with Gemini Deep Research and an Interactions API designed to embed autonomous research workflows into products. We also cover a major UK partnership with Google DeepMind aimed at accelerating science through automation, plus why Microsoft’s new Copilot pricing for small businesses, Nvidia’s move to buy the company behind Slurm, and a fresh wave of copyright lawsuits all point to one thing: the legal and infrastructure layers of AI are now product critical.

AI Weekly Briefing: Accenture Goes All In on Claude

This week I break down the biggest moves shaping the future of AI. OpenAI’s new enterprise report shows explosive adoption and usage growth, IBM drops eleven billion on Confluent to own the data-streaming backbone, Accenture goes deep with Anthropic in a partnership that could reshape corporate AI, and Runway’s Gen 4.5 quietly leapfrogs the giants in video generation. We also look at Instacart’s new agentic shopping experience inside ChatGPT, Anthropic’s push to bring Claude to nonprofits, and why Mistral’s open models are becoming a serious force.

AI Weekly News Briefing: Nissan’s Software-Defined Cars and the New Cloud Vehicle Race

This week on The AI Breakdown, I’m unpacking the biggest signals in AI - from Accenture’s massive OpenAI partnership to Lyft’s 87% support-time drop using Claude, to why 79% of companies are quietly rolling back their AI projects.
We dig into:
How consulting giants are gearing up to sell AI transformation at scale
OpenAI’s surprising move into accounting and IT services
TwelveLabs’ new video model turning dark data into gold
Nissan’s push toward truly software-defined vehicles
Rezolve’s $90M grab for Crownpeak and what it means for AI-powered commerce
AWS + Visa laying the rails for agentic shopping
Bezos-backed Project Prometheus and the rise of desktop-level AI agents

AI Weekly News Briefing: Nvidia’s Surge, Model ML’s $75M & AI Growth Zones in the UK

This week we’re looking at AI moving from hype to hands-on.
We start with OpenAI and DoorDash running “AI Jam” workshops for over 1,000 small businesses across US cities – helping restaurant owners, accountants and retailers build AI tools they can actually use the next day. Meanwhile, the tech giants are doing the opposite of slowing down: nearly $90 billion raised in fresh bonds to fuel data centres, GPUs and cloud infrastructure.
Nvidia smashed expectations again (with numbers even stronger than headlines suggest), Model ML just banked $75m to automate investment banking grunt work, and a mid-tier London accounting firm cut a two-week task down to two hours using Gemini 2.5.
At the same time, Amazon is telling engineers to ditch third-party coding assistants for its in-house AI tool “Kiro”, and the UK government wants regional AI Growth Zones to make AI adoption easier for business – though the details are fuzzier than the headline.
We pull it all together through one lens: AI is embedding fast at both ends of the market – from small cafés drafting menus in a workshop, to hyperscalers dropping billions to keep the GPU taps flowing. If you're building or scaling with AI, this episode gives you a heads-up on what’s coming next.

AI Weekly News Briefing: Trillion-Dollar Data Centers, Soaring AI Costs, and the Deepfake Backlash

This week on The AI Breakdown, I dig into the trillion-dollar AI infrastructure boom, from Google’s $40B Texas mega-build to Oracle’s debt-fuelled cloud gamble and the jaw-dropping projections behind OpenAI and Anthropic’s next frontier. We also look at why data silos are still holding back corporate AI projects, and what new surveys say about AI’s real impact on productivity and profits.

AI Weekly News Briefing: Cloud Power Plays, Siri’s Identity Crisis, and Coke’s AI Christmas

In this week’s AI Weekly News Briefing, OpenAI smashes past one million paying businesses, lands a colossal $38 billion cloud deal with AWS, and fuels a fresh round of platform upgrades. Apple flirts with letting Google’s Gemini run Siri, Brussels softens the EU AI Act to give builders some breathing space, Shopify’s agentic AI sends sales soaring, and Verizon quietly builds the pipes that make all this magic actually work. We wrap with Coca-Cola’s new AI-generated holiday ads, which sparked a full-blown comment-section revolt.

AI Weekly News Briefing: OpenAI Restructures, AWS Flexes Silicon, and LSEG Goes All In on AI Data

This week in AI: OpenAI has officially grown up with a new governance structure and fresh regulatory sign-offs, Microsoft tightens its grip with a mega-stake, and the capital taps are opening wider than ever.
We dig into what this new structure means for trust, safety, and OpenAI’s future power plays, plus the SoftBank funding wave and why enterprise buyers suddenly look a lot more comfortable betting big on AI.
Meanwhile AWS isn’t waiting around. It’s pushing its own silicon agenda at massive scale, setting up a compute showdown with Nvidia that could reshape AI economics. And in London, the LSEG deal shows how premium financial data is sliding straight into AI assistants with enterprise-grade controls.
We also hit the shifting AI security landscape, fresh EU moves to police deepfakes and election interference, and Google rolling Gemini into the smart home world.

AI Weekly News Briefing: From Real World AI Progress to From Superintelligence Fears

Everything that mattered in AI in the last week in one focused briefing. We start with headline moments that shift markets and compute supply: SoftBank’s massive final tranche for OpenAI and Anthropic’s scale up with Google TPUs.
Then we move to product and policy: Microsoft Copilot’s memory and group features and a 30,000 person NHS pilot that reported 43 minutes saved per worker per day. We explain why OpenAI’s UK data residency matters for public sector adoption, how India’s proposed labeling thresholds could reshape platform UX, and how Amazon and EA are turning AI into operational and creative power tools.
Finally, we cover Anthropic’s vertical push into life sciences and a prominent international appeal to halt superintelligence development.

Did AgentKit Just Kill n8n? Spoiler: No

OpenAI’s new AgentKit dropped, and the internet instantly declared n8n dead. Spoiler: it’s not even close.
In this episode of The AI Breakdown, I put AgentKit and n8n head-to-head after weeks of hands-on testing. I dive into where each tool shines, what they’re actually built for, and which one you should reach for when building your next automation or AI agent.