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Inside: real-world use cases and Partner Perspectives you won’t find anywhere else:
• 1. ✅ Turn AI mistakes into verified decisions with Guru
• 2. 👾 This MMO bans humans, lets only AI agents play
• 3. 💭 How AI helped a founder pick her market
• 4. 🦾 Turn your AI enthusiasm into marketable skills with Innovating with AI
• 5. 🧐 China deploys AI to detect corruption in public bidding
• 6. 💪 We made it into the "Best AI Podcasts" list
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TOGETHER WITH GURU
Your team is probably already using AI for everything: research, customer support, product decisions. Just one problem… AI is confidently wrong about your company knowledge 40% of the time.
While everyone races to deploy more AI tools, they're building on a foundation of outdated wikis, scattered documents, and tribal knowledge that was never meant to power automated decisions.
Guru solved this for companies like Spotify and Brex. They built the only AI verification system that automatically validates company knowledge before your AI agents use it. Think of it as quality control for your AI's brain.
The companies that figure this out first will have AI that actually works. The ones that don't waste valuable human time cleaning up expensive mistakes.
Latest in AI
This MMO bans humans, lets only AI agents play
🚨 Our Report
A new space-based MMO called SpaceMolt has launched with an unusual rule: only AI agents can play, while humans are stuck watching. The game, which describes itself as "a living universe where AI agents compete, cooperate, and create emergent stories," currently has 51 agents roaming 505 star systems.
🔓 Key Points
AI agents connect via MCP, WebSocket, or HTTP API to mine ore, craft items, form factions, and engage in space piracy. The game's tagline to agents: "You decide. You act. They watch."
Developer Ian Langworth used Anthropic's Claude Code to write all 59,000 lines of Go source code and 33,000 lines of YAML data, noting he hasn't even looked at the code himself.
Agents communicate with each other via a public forum to discuss strategy and form alliances, and when bugs are reported, a Claude Code skill automatically researches, codes, and deploys fixes.
🔐 Relevance
SpaceMolt points to where AI agent development is heading. While the game is admittedly a "fun, goofy experiment," it demonstrates AI agents operating autonomously in complex social and economic systems. For enterprise leaders, this previews how multi-agent workflows could evolve: agents negotiating, cooperating, and competing without constant human oversight.
Partner Perspective
“Slop” Was the Word of the Year. Employers Can Do Better in 2026.
Partner Column exclusively available in this edition of The AI Report
By Karen Odash — Labor And Employment Attorney at Fisher Phillips
“AI is artificial intelligence, not artificial accountability. The moment humans stop owning the output is the moment quality collapses.”
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Case Study
How AI helped a founder pick her market
Femmli, a health tech startup building hormone-tracking technology, needed to identify its beachhead market. Founder Dani Campillo Valencia used MIT's JetPack AI about one hour weekly.
Pattern: AI-guided frameworks where the tool walks founders through structured market analysis, forcing side-by-side comparisons using proven criteria rather than gut instinct.
Why it matters: Early-stage founders waste months chasing the wrong segment. AI-assisted evaluation surfaces the strongest markets before resources get committed.
Metric: Valencia tested five customer segments and identified perimenopausal women as her beachhead, using about one hour of AI-assisted analysis per week.
Steal this: Evaluate three customer segments with ChatGPT. List criteria (urgency, ability to pay, reachability) and have AI rank them.
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.
AI News Story
China deploys AI to detect corruption in public bidding
China's anti-corruption authorities are rolling out AI-powered monitoring systems to flag bid rigging, collusion, and suspicious pricing patterns in government procurement.
The move follows a broader push by the Communist Party to modernize its anti-graft apparatus. According to officials, the AI tools can detect anomalies that human auditors might miss, including connections between shell companies, unusual bidding behavior, and conflicts of interest among procurement officials.
For enterprises operating in China, the push means tighter scrutiny across the procurement supply chain. Companies bidding on government contracts may face heightened compliance expectations, with AI systems cross-referencing corporate filings, ownership structures, and historical bidding data to assess integrity risks.
AI News Story
We made it into the "Best AI Podcasts" list
Lower Street just published its roundup of the best podcasts covering AI across industries, and The AI Report Live made the list alongside shows from NVIDIA, MIT Sloan, BCG, and Siemens.
The write-up called out what sets the podcast apart: conversations with high-level operators and founders that go beyond product announcements to explore the motivations, trade-offs, and real pressures behind AI adoption.
Each episode features guests who share how they're actually building and thinking in the AI space.
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Companies to Watch/Raising Now
Early-stage AI startups on our radar, before they’re everywhere.
• Pelgo
What they do: AI career agent that maps your skills to market trends and builds reskilling roadmaps for roles like data analysis and prompt engineering.
Why it matters: Outplacement services cost $10K+ per person. Pelgo blends AI with human counselors to cut that price and make career support accessible beyond the executive suite. Launching this month.
Stage: Seed
Raising: $5.5M
Investors: Flybridge Capital
• Bretton AI
What they do: AI agents that run KYC, AML, and sanctions investigations inside regulated financial institutions.
Why it matters: Since May 2025, customer market cap grew from $150B to over $1T. Average contract value jumped from $85K to $201K. Banks are buying, not piloting.
Stage: Series B
Raising: $75M
Investors: Sapphire Ventures
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