This week, AI started prompting me. Not the other way around.
It was surreal to start to see ChatGPT set a news angle for the day every morning (that’s their new Pulse product in action.)
It’s hyper-relevant, almost eerily so. And it gives me a glimpse into the future where AI will just handle stuff for us overnight.
Stepping back, we’re seeing three key themes out of the stories this week: proactive AI that works while you sleep, tech giants abandoning exclusivity for multi-model strategies, and the first real AI agents that complete end-to-end tasks.
Top Stories
OpenAI launched proactive AI that works while you sleep, delivering morning briefings based on your data
Microsoft ditched AI exclusivity, integrating Anthropic’s Claude alongside OpenAI in enterprise tools
Meta explored partnering with Google on ad targeting, signaling revenue trumps rivalry
OpenAI announced autonomous data centers that operate as lights-out “AI factories”
Chinese startup Kimi deployed true AI agents that build websites and dashboards from chat requests
Adobe imported best-in-class AI models rather than competing with proprietary development
California passed comprehensive AI safety legislation creating the first major state-level framework
Plus, I Want to Make This More Useful for You!
Reading AI news without extracting actionable insights is like collecting data without analysis. You know something important happened, but you can’t connect it to your actual work.
So I’m including the Implications Mapper—a structured prompt that takes any AI brief and forces out the concrete implications for your role and industry. No more “that’s interesting” and moving on. You get five specific implications, what to ignore, what signals to track, and what happens if you don’t act.
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