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Inside: real-world use cases and Partner Perspectives you won’t find anywhere else:
• 1. 💻 Turn spreadsheets into smart systems with Praxie
• 2 ⚖️ EU investigates Meta over WhatsApp AI ban
• 3. 👨💻 Ditch trackers and pop-ups for good with Surfshark
• 4. ⌚️ How AI cut months from this manufacturer's launch
• 5. 🌸 Amazon showcases Nova AI perfume at re:Invent
• 6. 🤝 Anthropic shakes hands with Snowflake for $200M
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TOGETHER WITH PRAXIE
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Latest in AI
EU investigates Meta over WhatsApp AI ban
🚨 Our Report
The European Commission launched an antitrust investigation into Meta's policy change that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, while allowing Meta AI to operate on the platform. The October policy change, effective January, prohibits general-purpose AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Poke from using WhatsApp's business API.
🔓 Key Points
The EU says Meta may be "crowding out innovative competitors" by blocking third-party AI providers from reaching customers through WhatsApp while keeping its own Meta AI accessible to users.
WhatsApp defended the move, saying AI chatbots "strain systems not designed to support them," and argued the AI space remains highly competitive with multiple availability points, including app stores and search engines.
If found guilty of breaching antitrust rules, Meta faces fines up to 10% of its global annual revenue, plus potential additional regulatory measures from the European Commission.
🔐 Relevance
This investigation signals increased regulatory scrutiny of tech giants using messaging platform dominance to favor proprietary AI services over competitors. Companies building AI distribution strategies should prepare for heightened antitrust oversight when leveraging existing platform advantages to exclude rivals.
Partner Perspective
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Partner Column exclusively available in this edition of The AI Report
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“You define the ‘what,’ and the agents handle the ‘how.’”
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Case Study
How AI cut months from this manufacturer's launch
Fort Worth-based manufacturer RMFG builds automated sheet metal fabrication systems but struggled to process customer CAD uploads quickly for real-time visualization.
The issue came from complex 3D file conversions that required heavy engineering resources, risking long delays and high development outputs.
RMFG integrated Zoo’s File Transformation API, converting STEP files to GLTF for quick browser 3D previews and seamless customer configuration.
The integration saved months of development time and high cost. Customers gained a faster, more interactive ordering experience.
AI News Story
Amazon showcases Nova AI perfume at re:Invent
Amazon drew long lines at its annual AWS conference with an interactive fragrance lab. The exhibit was designed to showcase the broad applications of its generative AI software, allowing attendees to create personalized perfumes using its SageMaker services.
The process involved users answering voice prompts about their preferences and moods. Four different Amazon AI models analyzed the inputs to generate a unique scent profile, which human perfumers then mixed from 30 available notes.
The exhibit successfully attracted large crowds, but the final product received mixed reviews. Some attendees found their AI-generated scents underwhelming after waiting for hours, highlighting the challenge of applying generative AI to highly subjective experiences like personal fragrance.
AI News Story
Anthropic shakes hands with Snowflake for $200M
Anthropic has signed a $200M multi-year partnership with cloud data company Snowflake to integrate its Claude models directly into the Snowflake Intelligence platform. The agreement makes Anthropic's latest models, including Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.5, available to Snowflake's extensive customer base.
The partnership gives Anthropic immediate availability to Snowflake’s 12,600 enterprise customers. These clients can use Claude models to analyze multimodal data and develop custom AI agents within their existing secure data environments.
This is Anthropic's largest enterprise partnership to date and signals a strategic pivot from consumer AI to a business-first focus, embedding its models within established corporate workflows to directly challenge competitors.
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