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4. 💰 Get ahead of AI spend surprises with Datadog
5. 🗞️ The News Bulletin
6. 🎙️ In This Episode…
7. 🤝 Executive AI Roles, powered by Jack and Jill
TOGETHER WITH NETGURU
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Latest in AI
FTC probes OpenAI, Anthropic
🚨 Our Report
The Federal Trade Commission has launched formal investigations into OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety practices and consumer protection concerns. The probe marks the first major federal regulatory action targeting the two largest frontier AI labs simultaneously, signaling a shift from voluntary commitments to potential enforcement.
🔓 Key Points
The FTC is examining whether the companies' public safety claims align with their actual practices, focusing on potential deceptive advertising under existing consumer protection laws.
Investigators are also reviewing the voluntary safety commitments both companies made to the White House in 2023, assessing whether those pledges have been meaningfully implemented.
Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic has commented publicly on the investigation, though both have previously stated they welcome regulatory oversight of AI development.
🔐 Relevance
For enterprise buyers, this investigation raises immediate questions about vendor risk and compliance exposure. Companies deploying OpenAI or Anthropic tools should monitor the probe closely, as findings could trigger new disclosure requirements or usage restrictions. If the FTC determines safety claims were overstated, it could reshape how AI vendors market their products and force enterprises to reassess their AI procurement criteria.
THE DEPLOYMENT REPORT
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HSBC relied on fragmented recruiters across three continents. Here's how AI-powered hiring cut operating expenses 10%.
Steal this: Count how many external recruiting agencies touched your last 20 senior hires. If the number exceeds three, you're bleeding budget on duplicated sourcing and inconsistent candidate experiences. HSBC unified SAP SuccessFactors with Eightfold.ai to shortlist by skills instead of job titles and centralized senior recruitment into proactive talent hubs. Pick one high-volume role category, map every handoff between internal teams and agencies, then consolidate sourcing into a single AI-enabled workflow.
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TOGETHER WITH DATADOG
AI spend is easy to lose track of, until it shows up as a shock on your AWS bill.
Datadog's guide to driving AI ROI shows you how to connect that spend to the infrastructure and model performance behind it. See which model, provider, or team is driving cost, alert on budget overruns in real time, and build a complete picture of ROI across tokens, models, and providers. One company, Kevel, cut AWS costs by up to $100,000/month.
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Meta launches its "most capable" open-weight AI model, built to run locally on Macs
The 816 billion parameter model, called Muse Spark Open, comes with a 1 million token context window and native multimodal capabilities. Meta says it outperforms other popular open-weight models on standard benchmarks, with particular strength in complex coding tasks and agentic workflows.
The catch: running it locally requires at least 1 terabyte of RAM, effectively limiting on-device use to high-end Mac Studio machines equipped with M5 Ultra chips. Meta demonstrated the model paired with its Muse Code terminal, showing it could handle full build cycles including bug fixes and new features for a Mastodon client, as well as reviewing and cropping footage in DaVinci Resolve.
Why it matters: Open-weight models offer cost efficiency and transparency that proprietary systems don't. If Muse Spark Open delivers on Meta's performance claims, it could reshape how enterprises approach local AI deployment for coding and creative workflows.
THE MONEY
Capital is flowing away from foundation models and toward companies solving AI's operational constraints. This week's two largest rounds targeted compute efficiency and token economics, not model development. Investors are betting the next wave of AI value creation sits in the picks-and-shovels layer.
Deals to know:
Ramp (Series F, $1.85B at $60B valuation) -- Financial operations platform now embeds AI agents across procurement, expense management, and accounting. Launched corporate cards for AI agents and entered model routing to capture token spend management. Annualized revenue crossed $2B. Investors: Dragoneer, Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Sands Capital, Avenir Growth
Ricursive Intelligence (Undisclosed) -- AI-designed chips targeting 10,000x compute demand growth. Uses recursive AI to design full chips in weeks instead of months, optimizing entire architectures rather than partitioned blocks. Founders previously developed AlphaChip at Google DeepMind. Investors: Undisclosed
Signal: Smart money sees AI's value capture shifting from who builds the best model to who manages the infrastructure and spend around it. Token economics and compute efficiency are becoming investable categories.
EXECUTIVE AI ROLES
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Own client relationships with CMOs at top-tier brands and reverse-engineer how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude rank content.
AI NEWS
🎙️ Denis Machuel, CEO of The Adecco Group, discuss how AI agents are changing recruitment, workforce strategy, and the day-to-day work of recruiters. WATCH HERE
🔌 POLICY: SEC files three new AI-washing enforcement actions targeting false claims about AI trading bots and capabilities, signaling continued investor protection scrutiny. LEARN MORE
💰 ECON NEWS: Google launches Universal Cart across Search and Gemini, letting shoppers save products from multiple retailers in one place with price-drop alerts and credit card optimization. FULL STORY
💻 MEDIA NEWS: Meta and Apple partner to optimize Muse AI models for Mac hardware, enabling faster local processing without cloud dependency for creative workflows. FULL STORY
🛡️ SECURITY NEWS: OpenAI agrees not to use Apple trade secrets allegedly taken by defecting employees, handing over forensic images of 14 employee drives while lawsuit proceeds. FULL STORY
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