Monday’s AI Report
• 1. 👀 Will Newsom veto AI safety bill again?
• 2. 🔓 Unlock AI agent value with AWS
• 3. 🌍 How AI saved Microsoft $500M
• 4. 👑 Turn feedback into customer intelligence with Enterpret
• 5. 💡 Partner Perspectives
• 6. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 7. 🚨 Musk cuts 500 xAI staff
• 8. 📢 People Inc. CEO slams Google
• 9. 📑 Recommended resources
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❓Monday’s Partner Perspective: Is your AI adoption actually solving your biggest constraint, or is it just distracting you with the novelty? Scroll down to find out what co-founder of Orbit Flows, Louis Shulman thinks ⬇️
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Will Newsom veto AI safety bill again?
🚨 Our Report
The California State Senate has approved major AI safety bill, SB 53, which was drafted by State Senator Scott Weiner (author of the previously vetoed AI safety bill, SB 1047). SB 53 requires AI companies to disclose what their AI safety testing processes are and demonstrate how they’re following them.
🔓 Key Points
SB 53 will now go to Governor Gavin Newsom to sign or veto. Last year, Newsom vetoed SB 1047 over the application of “stringent standards” to models, regardless of whether they were “in high-risk environments.”
Although Newsom acknowledged the importance of “protecting the public from real threats posed by this technology,” he was concerned that SB 1047 “could have a profound impact on our competitive strength.”
SB 53 has been influenced by AI experts, brought together by Newsom. It also states that AI companies making <$500M only need to disclose high-level safety details; those making more will need detailed reports.
🔐 Relevance
It will be interesting to see what Newsom’s verdict is, as Silicon Valley seems to be divided: Several companies, VC firms, and lobbyists have criticized the bill, over concerns about its “focus on ‘large developers’ to the exclusion of other developers of models with advanced capabilities that still pose risks of catastrophic harm.” But others, like Anthropic, for example, are in favor of the bill, stating that it “creates a solid blueprint for AI governance that cannot be ignored.”
Will Governor Newsom sign or veto Senator Weiner's new SB 53 AI safety bill?
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Don’t Let AI Innovation Kill Your Business
By Louis Shulman · Co-Founder of Orbit Flows
The AI Report Partner Perspectives Column
“Your business exists to deliver customer value, not showcase technology.”
Growth comes from fixing your single biggest constraint, not optimizing everything else. AI can be transformative, but only if it addresses the bottlenecks rather than serving as expensive theatre.
How AI saved Microsoft $500M
Microsoft’s call center was dealing with a high volume of customer-service calls, especially from smaller customers.
They needed to keep call-center costs down while maintaining quick response times and high-quality support.
They implemented AI tools into their call centers, which handled interactions with smaller customers and streamlined routine queries.
As a result, Microsoft managed to save over $500M p/y in call center operational costs.
How Canva, Perplexity and Notion turn feedback chaos into actionable customer intelligence
You’re sitting on a goldmine of feedback: tickets, surveys, reviews, but can’t mine it.
Manual tagging doesn’t scale, and insights fall through the cracks.
Enterpret’s AI unifies all feedback, auto‑tags themes, and ties them to revenue/CSAT, surfacing what matters to customers.
The result: faster decisions, clearer priorities, and stronger retention.
ChatNode is for building custom, advanced AI chatbots that enhance customer support and user engagement ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Product Hunt)
TAMI Studio uses AI to plan, document, and automate UI tests
Olostep delivers clean web data for AI training, in seconds
According to leaked internal emails, Elon Musk has laid off 500 xAI employees as part of an immediate “strategic pivot,” which aims to “accelerate the expansion of specialist AI tutors.”
The 500 dismissed team members are from xAI’s 1,500-strong data-annotation team, which labels and prepares data used to train Grok, but according to Musk, xAI no longer needs “generalist AI tutors.”
The seemingly drastic cuts come after xAI declared, earlier this year on social platform X, that it had plans to surge its “Specialist AI tutor team by 10x” and “begin hiring across domains like STEM and safety.”
Neil Vogel, the CEO of People Inc. (the largest publisher in the US), has accused Google of “not playing fair” because it uses the same crawler bot to index websites for its search engine and its AI Overviews feature.
Vogel believes that this makes Google an “intentional bad actor” because the AI Overviews feature “steals content without proper compensation,” and takes “our content to compete with us.”
People Inc. already tries to block AI crawlers that don’t pay, forcing AI companies to negotiate content deals, and has signed an agreement with OpenAI, which Vogel describes as a “good actor.”
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