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Inside: real-world use cases and Partner Perspectives you won’t find anywhere else:
• 1. 💬 Turn your customer feedback into actionable insights with Unwrap
• 2. 🕺 China's humanoid robots take center stage
• 3. 💼 Your Business Briefing
• 4. 🦾 Turn your AI enthusiasm into marketable skills with Innovating with AI
• 5. ✍️ Today’s Policy Corner
• 6. 🗞️ The News Bulletin
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TOGETHER WITH UNWRAP
Unwrap’s customer intelligence platform brings all your customer feedback (surveys, reviews, support tickets, social comments, etc.) into a single view, then uses AI + NLP to surface the most actionable insights and deliver them straight to your inbox.
Unwrap works with product, CX, support, operations, and data teams to cut through thousands of pieces of feedback, ensure no customer voice gets lost, and get data-backed insights to inform their roadmaps. Trusted by Stripe, Lululemon, WHOOP, Clay, Ro, DoorDash, Southwest Airlines, and others. If your team is still relying on time-consuming manual processes (or even a mix of manual work and AI), there's a much better way to aggregate and analyze feedback.
With Unwrap you get:
All customer feedback auto-categorized into a single view
Natural language queries to explore feedback instantly
Real-time alerts, custom reporting, and clear sentiment tracking
Latest in AI
China's humanoid robots take center stage
🚨 Our Report
China's annual CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the country's most-watched broadcast with a Super Bowl-sized audience, featured humanoid robots from multiple Chinese startups performing sword fights, backflips, and "drunken boxing" routines alongside human martial artists on February 16th. The performance marked a visible leap from last year's simpler choreography.
🔓 Key Points
Unitree Robotics' G1 and H2 robots performed nunchaku and Drunken Fist moves, with CEO Wang Xingxing projecting 20,000 unit shipments this year, up from 5,500 in 2025.
MagicLab debuted a robot completing a 360-degree rotation, and Noetix Robotics showed humanoids executing backflips within a 12-square-meter stage with pinpoint precision.
Chinese social media viewers saw major improvements from last year's folk dance, noting kung fu, flips, and synchronized dancing.
🔐 Relevance
The gala highlighted China's robotics ambitions as domestic firms race to outpace global rivals like Tesla's Optimus. While the performances impressed, analysts note that large-scale commercial deployment still depends on advances in cost management and long-term reliability.
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THE BUSINESS BRIEFING: HR & TALENT
Mission Cloud (AWS Premier Tier Partner, 200+ employees) was drowning in manual recruiting overhead. Two recruiters spent hours coordinating interviews, sifting through high-volume applicant pools, and building custom spreadsheets because their decade-old ATS acted as "a fancy file cabinet." They needed to scale hiring velocity without adding headcount.
Tool used: Gem — AI-powered all-in-one recruiting platform with intelligent candidate ranking, automated scheduling, and real-time analytics.
Result: 43 hires in 90 days with just 2 recruiters. 3x requisition capacity per recruiter. Time-to-fill dropped from 65 to 57 days. Interview scheduling accelerated 30-50%, cutting days of calendar tetris down to minutes.
The lesson: AI candidate matching only delivers when you define interview processes upfront. Mission Cloud spent an hour configuring each role's hiring stages and interviewer assignments in Gem — that saved 10 hours of scheduling chaos down the line.
Steal this: Audit one open role this week. Map out every interview stage, assign interviewers, and set up scheduling templates before sourcing begins. Front-load process design to eliminate coordination bottlenecks later.
TOGETHER WITH THE AI CONSULTANCY PROJECT
‘AI consultants are getting paid $900/hr’ –Fortune
Fortune Magazine interviewed Innovating with AI’s founder to discuss a crazy stat – AI engineers are being deployed as consultants at $900/hr. Why did they interview Rob? Because he’s already trained 1,000+ AI consultants – and IWAI’s exclusive consultant directory has driven Fortune 500 leads to graduates.
Want to learn how to turn your AI enthusiasm into marketable skills, clear services and a serious business? Enrollment in The AI Consultancy Project is opening in 2026 – and you’ll only hear about it if you apply for access now.
THE POLICY CORNER
The British government amended its Crime and Policing Bill to bring AI chatbot providers, including OpenAI and xAI, under existing Online Safety Act requirements. Any company offering AI chatbots accessible to UK users must now implement safeguards against illegal content, particularly material harmful to children. The change follows Ofcom's formal investigation into X over Grok's generation of sexualized images.
Deadline: In effect now. Additional fast-track powers for children's wellbeing measures are pending.
Risk: Non-compliance triggers fines and penalties under Ofcom enforcement. The regulator has already demonstrated willingness to act, launching investigations within weeks of violations.
Your move: If your product serves UK users, audit your AI content moderation systems against the Online Safety Act requirements this week. Contact your legal team to confirm you have documentation ready for potential Ofcom inquiries.
AI News
Amazon overtakes Walmart as world's biggest company by sales: AWS cloud growth pushed Amazon to $716.9B annual revenue, edging past Walmart's $713.2B for the first time. FULL STORY
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro with doubled reasoning performance: New model scores 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, more than double the previous version's complex problem-solving capability. FULL STORY
Reddit tests AI-powered shopping search with product carousels: Community recommendations now match with retailer links, as Reddit's AI search users grew from 1M to 15M in 2025. FULL STORY
Anthropic faces Pentagon tensions following Maduro raid dispute: AI safety company reportedly on shaky ground with Defense Department amid ongoing feud. FULL STORY
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The Money: AI infrastructure spending pivots to Asia
Global AI giants are shifting capital from model development to data center buildouts in emerging markets. India alone is attracting $210B+ in committed AI infrastructure spending over the next 24 months as OpenAI, Reliance, and Adani race to secure compute sovereignty in the world's most populous nation.
Deals to know:
OpenAI + Tata Group (Infrastructure Partnership, 100MW → 1GW) -- Data center capacity for in-country AI processing. First deployment to TCS's 500K+ employee base. Investors: Undisclosed
Reliance Industries (CapEx Commitment, $110B over 7 years) -- Gigawatt-scale data centers powered by 10GW surplus solar capacity. 120MW live H2 2026. Investors: Internal funding
Signal: Hyperscalers betting compute bottlenecks clear faster in markets building greenfield infrastructure than retrofitting legacy grids. Watch data residency requirements drive regional datacenter premiums through 2027.
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