Walmart Becomes Muse's Cingular, OpenAI's Dots, & Meta's Enterprise Detour

Amazon's Muse block hands Walmart the iPhone playbook, OpenAI launches agents most of its users can't use yet, and Meta chases the enterprise while it's…

Oct 2 • Rome Thorndike and AI News Digest

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Your AI Sales Agent Can Write the Email, But Who Verifies the Contact?

A practical workflow for checking the person, company and evidence before AI turns a contact record into outreach.

Oct 2 • Rome Thorndike

July 2026

New York Halts Data Centers, Apple Sues OpenAI, & Meta Faces AI Layoff Suit

Moratorium shifts bottleneck from chips to permits, Lawsuit targets former iPhone executive Tang Tan, and Former employees allege algorithmic…

Jul 17 • Rome Thorndike and AI News Digest

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June 2026

Microsoft Cancels Anthropic Licenses, Anthropic Hits $965B, & Apple Plays a Different Game

Microsoft and Uber rein in AI coding spend, Anthropic raises $65B at $965B, and Apple keeps prices steady while memory prices spike

Jun 4 • Rome Thorndike and AI News Digest

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May 2026

SpaceX Bets AI Moves to Orbit, OpenAI's IPO Clock Starts, & Cloudflare Prices the Layoff

SpaceX files history's largest IPO on a $26.5T AI bet, OpenAI's S-1 starts the clock, and Cloudflare prices its layoffs.

May 29 • Rome Thorndike and AI News Digest

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The AI Playbook

Tested AI workflows I run Verum on. No Gong, HubSpot, or Weblow. New workflows added weekly.

May 29 • Rome Thorndike and AI News Digest

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Google Throws the Kitchen Sink, the FDE Land Grab Spreads, & Anthropic's $900B While Customers Wait for $68B in Value

Google crams AI into everything, the FDE hiring war jumps from the labs to the platforms, and Anthropic passes OpenAI at $900B valuation

May 21 • Rome Thorndike and AI News Digest

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Coinbase Pays for the AI Layoff Optics, the FDE Wars Begin, & Google Front-Runs Apple's WWDC

Coinbase has an outage after citing AI for layoffs, OpenAI and Google hire armies of "Forward Deployed Engineers", and Google runs Android Show before…

May 15 • Rome Thorndike and AI News Digest

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Anthropic Is Google Cloud's Growth Engine, Runs to SpaceX for Compute, & Skips the Consultants

Google Cloud's growth matches Anthropic's growth, Musk monetizes excess Colossus 1 capacity with Anthropic, and the labs are vertically integrating…

May 8 • Rome Thorndike and AI News Digest

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April 2026

OpenAI Didn't Leave the UK Because of Energy Costs, Meta Bets Every Dollar of Cash Flow, & Anthropic Is Quietly Nerfing Claude

OpenAI signed Stargate UK knowing the costs, Meta assembles a complete data center org in five days, and Anthropic is feeding the enterprise by…

Apr 19 • Rome Thorndike and AI News Digest

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Anthropic's Best Model Is Enterprise-Only, OpenAI Buys Another Distraction with TBPN, & AI Agents Are Breaking the Internet

Frontier AI is getting locked behind enterprise budgets, OpenAI keeps losing focus while Anthropic and Google gain ground, and GitHub can't handle the…

Apr 10 • Rome Thorndike and AI News Digest

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March 2026

Alibaba Loses AI Prodigy, OpenAI Preempts DeepSeek in Congress, & GPT-5.4 Launches Into a Boycott

Alibaba bleeds AI talent, DeepSeek faces theft allegations, and OpenAI's best launch gets overshadowed

Mar 12 • AI News Digest and Rome Thorndike

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