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• 2. ⚡️ Claude adds fees for OpenClaw
• 3. 💼 Your Business Briefing
• 4. 💻 Get rid of your personal data from Google with Incogni
• 5. ✍️ Today’s Policy Corner
• 6. 🗞️ The News Bulletin
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Latest in AI
Claude adds fees for OpenClaw
🚨 Our Report
Anthropic has announced that Claude subscribers will no longer be able to use their subscription limits for third-party tools like the viral AI coding assistant OpenClaw. These tools will require a separate usage-based billing on top of existing subscriptions.
🔓 Key Points
Head of Claude Code, Boris Cherny, said that subscriptions weren't built for the usage patterns of third-party tools, and that the company is prioritizing customers using Anthropic's own products and API.
OpenClaw developer Peter Steinberger, who joined OpenAI in February, claimed he managed only a one-week delay. He accused Anthropic of copying popular features into its closed system before locking out open-source tools.
Cherny pushed back, stating the Claude team remains "big fans of open source" but faces engineering constraints. Anthropic is offering refunds to subscribers who cancel.
🔐 Relevance
This move shows how AI companies are tightening control over third-party integrations as usage patterns strain infrastructure. For developers relying on tools like OpenClaw, it means added costs and potential workflow disruptions. Enterprise teams should evaluate how dependent they are on unofficial tooling built around subscription-based AI services.
THE BUSINESS BRIEFING: SALES (powered by Upscaile)
Qrew (recruiting software, <50 employees) was losing 8 hours/day on manual prospect research, leaving no time for personalization. SDRs scraped LinkedIn, company sites, and social posts before writing cold emails—response rates were abysmal. They implemented Clay to auto-find prospects, enrich company data, extract CEO social activity, and generate personalized bullets via OpenAI, then piped to Smartlead for automated sequences.
Tool used: Clay -- automated lead enrichment, AI-powered research, and personalization at scale.
Result: Cut sales team by 50%. Doubled positive reply rates. Increased meetings booked 40%. Former research SDR hours reallocated to targeted cold calling.
The lesson: Personalization converts, but only when you can actually deliver it at scale. Qrew's 4-email sequence over 14 days with company-specific context beat generic spray-and-pray every time.
Steal this: Audit how many hours your SDRs spend researching vs. actually selling. If research exceeds 30% of their week, automate it, starting with company enrichment and social post scraping.
TOGETHER WITH INCOGNI
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THE POLICY CORNER
Vietnam's Law on Artificial Intelligence took effect March 1, 2026, requiring providers of high-risk AI systems to complete conformity assessments before deployment. High-risk systems include those affecting healthcare, education, finance, criminal investigation, hiring, loan screening, and government decision-making. Systems on the Prime Minister's designated high-risk list need approval from a registered conformity body. Foreign providers deploying high-risk AI in Vietnam must maintain a legal contact point in-country, and systems requiring mandatory certification must have commercial presence or an authorized rep.
Deadline: March 1, 2027 for healthcare, education, finance; September 1, 2026 for all other sectors.
Your move: If you're deploying AI that makes decisions about people (hiring tools, loan approval systems, customer evaluation), check whether your target markets require conformity assessments or local representation. Map compliance timelines now before enforcement windows close.
AI News
🤖 Japan targets 30% of global physical AI market by 2040: Government commits $6.3B as labor shortages drive shift from pilot programs to customer-paid deployments across factories, warehouses, and critical infrastructure. FULL STORY
🔓 Google releases Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0 license: New open model family ranks #3 globally on Arena AI leaderboard, supports 140+ languages, and runs completely offline on mobile devices with 128K-256K context windows. FULL STORY
💣 Iran's IRGC threatens OpenAI's $30B Stargate datacenter: Brigadier General releases video targeting Abu Dhabi facility following reports of damaged Amazon AWS datacenters, raising security concerns for Middle East cloud infrastructure. FULL STORY
🇨🇳 DeepSeek V4 reportedly ordering hundreds of thousands of Huawei chips: Move signals potential shift in China's AI supply chain away from Nvidia and AMD as domestic alternatives scale. FULL STORY
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The Money: Sovereign AI infrastructure surge
Microsoft and Mistral's combined $11B in Asia-Pacific and European investments signal a fundamental shift: AI infrastructure is decentralizing from US cloud providers. Governments and enterprises want compute independence, driving capital toward regional data centers that answer to local regulators, not Silicon Valley boards.
Deals to know:
Mistral (Debt, $830M) -- 13,800 Nvidia GPUs for first Paris data center, operational Q2 2026. Lenders: Bpifrance, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, HSBC, MUFG
Microsoft Japan (CapEx, $10B over 4 years) -- AI data centers plus training for 1M engineers. Partners: SoftBank, Sakura Internet, NTT, NEC
Signal: Enterprise AI procurement is going local. Expect premium valuations for firms offering compute capacity outside US hyperscaler ecosystems through 2027.
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