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• 2. 📲 Anthropic claps back at OpenClaw
• 3. 💼 Your Business Briefing
• 4. 🧠 How Dan built a real business with The AI Consultancy Project
• 5. ✍️ Today’s Policy Corner
• 6. 🗞️ The News Bulletin
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Anthropic claps back at OpenClaw
🚨 Our Report
Anthropic has released Claude Code Channels, a new feature that lets developers message a running Claude Code session on their laptop directly from Telegram or Discord on their phone. The move positions Anthropic as a direct competitor to OpenClaw, the viral open-source agent platform whose creator recently joined OpenAI.
🔓 Key Points
Channels uses MCP-based plugins to create a two-way chat between developers and their local Claude Code session, enabling them to build apps and run CLI tools remotely.
Anthropic is pitching tighter security controls than OpenClaw, with admin-managed channels and sender allow-lists. Claude Team and Enterprise subscribers have Channels disabled by default.
The feature arrives less than two months after OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joined OpenAI, following Anthropic's earlier cease-and-desist over the project name "Clawd."
🔐 Relevance
For enterprise teams, Channels offers a more governed path to always-on AI agents than community-built alternatives. China recently restricted OpenClaw on government computers due to security concerns, a sign of growing wariness about unvetted agent setups. Anthropic is betting that official support and clearer compliance controls will win over organizations evaluating persistent AI agents for developer workflows.
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THE BUSINESS BRIEFING: MARKETING (powered by Upscaile)
Twillory (mid-market DTC menswear, 50+ employees) was losing margin on cart abandonment flows. Generic discount logic was working, but training shoppers to wait for offers and eroding profitability on customers who'd buy full-price. CMO Andrew Gluck tried rules-based segmentation, but maintaining the logic ate time and couldn't scale across browse, cart, and checkout flows.
Tool used: Monocle -- AI that predicts individual purchase intent and personalizes email/SMS offers in real time.
Result: 37% higher repeat customer conversion rate. AOV increased. Cart recovery flows turned profitable without manual testing or constant rule adjustments.
The lesson: Generic discounts kill margin. Twillory's AI model learned which customers needed an offer to convert vs. which would buy anyway, then adjusted incentive size per shopper. No blanket 15% codes.
Steal this: Audit last month's abandonment flow. Calculate how many converters used a discount vs. didn't. If 40%+ bought full-price, you're leaving margin on the table with blanket offers. Test behavior-based personalization this week.
TOGETHER WITH THE AI CONSULTANCY PROJECT
Dan had no tech background and no business experience – just a love for AI and a hunch it could become something more. Through the AI Consultancy Project, he landed his first clients, found a niche, and built a real business. This case study breaks down his journey – the early stumbles, the system that worked, and how he made the leap.
THE POLICY CORNER
The European Parliament's Internal Market and Civil Liberties committees voted 101-9 to replace the EU AI Act's conditional compliance trigger with fixed statutory dates. High-risk AI systems covering employment screening, credit scoring, and biometric identification must comply by December 2, 2027. Product-linked systems (machinery, medical devices) face an August 2, 2028 deadline. This replaces the original mechanism that left compliance contingent on a Commission decision. The move came after standards, guidelines, and conformity frameworks fell behind schedule, making the prior August 2026 and 2027 deadlines unworkable.
Deadline: December 2, 2027 (Annex III systems); August 2, 2028 (Annex I systems). Parliament plenary votes on March 26, 2026, then the trilogue with the Council begins.
Your move: Map your AI systems against Annex III categories this quarter (hiring tools, creditworthiness models, biometric processing). If any qualify as high-risk, flag them to legal and compliance now.
AI News
🤝 monday.com launches Agentalent.ai, a hiring platform for AI agents: Built with AWS and Anthropic, the marketplace lets enterprises post roles, evaluate qualified agents, and onboard them alongside human teams, Wix, and Mesh Payments among early adopters. FULL STORY
📢 OpenAI hires Meta ad exec as ChatGPT ads launch nears: Dave Dugan, former Meta advertising lead, joins to oversee ad sales as the company prepares to roll out ads to U.S. free and Go tier users within weeks. FULL STORY
🚀 Alibaba launches Accio Work, an enterprise AI agent platform for SMEs: The no-code system deploys specialized agents for compliance, sourcing, and logistics across 100+ markets, with 10M monthly active users already on the Accio platform. FULL STORY
👥 OpenAI plans to double headcount to 8,000 by year-end: The hiring push spans product, engineering, research, and sales as the company races to scale enterprise offerings against Anthropic and Google. FULL STORY
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The Money: Compute infrastructure locks in multi-year capital
Investors are doubling down on the picks-and-shovels play as AI compute demand outpaces supply. Two of this week's largest raises target the infrastructure layer, with combined capital exceeding $77 billion in commitments through 2026.
Deals to know:
Samsung Electronics (CapEx, $73.3B) -- 22% increase over 2025, targeting memory production and AI chip research to reclaim high-bandwidth memory leadership from SK Hynix. Focused on integrated solutions covering memory, fabrication, and packaging.
Nebius (Convertible Notes, $4.3B) -- Up-sized from $3.75B target, raised from qualified institutional buyers to scale AI cloud infrastructure. Company already holds $27B Meta contract and 3GW contracted capacity through 2026.
Signal: Smart money isn't chasing the next foundation model; it's locking in years of compute capacity ahead of enterprise adoption acceleration.
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