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Welcome to The AI Report — the #1 AI newsletter for business leaders.
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Inside: real-world use cases and Partner Perspectives you won’t find anywhere else:
• 1. 💪 Scale your business with Attio
• 2. 📈 Anthropic upgrades shake software stocks
• 3. 👥 How AI tripled ABM engagement
• 4. 🧠 Book a three-week workflow audit with Agentic Brain
• 5. 🖼️ ChatGPT caricature trend takes over social media
• 6. 🇺🇸 Amazon rolls out Alexa+ to all US users
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TOGETHER WITH ATTIO
Here’s how I use Attio to run my day.
Attio is the AI CRM with conversational AI built directly into your workspace. Every morning, Ask Attio handles my prep:
Surfaces insights from calls and conversations across my entire CRM
Update records and create tasks without manual entry
Answers questions about deals, accounts, and customer signals that used to take hours to find
All in seconds. No searching, no switching tabs, no manual updates.
Ready to scale faster?
Latest in AI
Anthropic upgrades shake software stocks
🚨 Our Report
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.6, an upgraded AI model designed to make its Cowork assistant better at office and coding tasks. The release comes days after Cowork plugins spooked Wall Street, triggering the Nasdaq's worst two-day tumble since April and sending legal and financial software stocks into freefall.
🔓 Key Points
The new model expands Claude's context window from 200,000 tokens to one million, enabling it to handle more complex tasks like sweeping changes to entire code bases, according to Anthropic's head of product management.
Anthropic says Opus 4.6 outperforms OpenAI's GPT-5.2 on a benchmark evaluating AI for knowledge work in fields like finance and legal, and a new PowerPoint integration lets users build slides that match corporate templates.
Following Cowork's plugin release last Friday, Thomson Reuters fell 15.83% and Legalzoom dropped nearly 20% on Tuesday, as investors fear the AI tool could replace specialized software.
🔐 Relevance
For business leaders, this puts more pressure on legacy enterprise software providers. While security concerns may slow adoption at larger companies, Anthropic's push into office productivity tools shows AI vendors are moving aggressively beyond chatbots into specialized workflows. Software incumbents will need to adapt quickly or risk losing ground.
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Case Study
How AI tripled ABM engagement
A people analytics SaaS company helping enterprises track workforce data struggled to connect programmatic ad spend to qualified pipeline. Its agency partnered with AI Digital for a head-to-head test.
Pattern: AI models handle contextual targeting, bidding, and audience optimization autonomously while humans review monthly reports, refine creative, and validate data quality.
Why it matters: Upper-funnel prospecting matched or exceeded retargeting results, generating qualified interest earlier in the buying cycle. Teams can shift budget from low-yield retargeting to precision prospecting.
Metric: AI Digital delivered 3x higher click-through rate and 2x conversion efficiency versus the incumbent partner. Video completion also rose 25% above benchmark.
Steal this: In Google Ads or Meta, switch one campaign to "Performance Max" or "Advantage+" (the AI modes). Let it run alongside a manually targeted campaign for two weeks. See which gets more clicks per dollar.
TOGETHER WITH AGENTIC BRAIN
They're here to sell you on the AI hype wave.
We're here to get you real results. We take a business-first approach, by analyzing your best processes then training a team of AI employees to increase the results. Our 3-week workflow audit identifies 5-10 agentic opportunities you didn't know existed. Result: 40% more talk time for your sales team to build customer relationships while AI handles the busy work.
No one-size-fits-all solutions
No unrealistic promises
No AI hype
Just strategic AI agents that increase your team's output instead of replacing them.
AI News Story
ChatGPT caricature trend takes over social media
OpenAI's ChatGPT is now doubling as a digital caricature artist. Users are uploading selfies and asking the chatbot to create exaggerated cartoon portraits based on their appearance and job, producing the kind of playful sketches once reserved for boardwalks and theme parks.
The viral prompt driving the trend: "Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me." Users with extensive ChatGPT history are getting surprisingly personalized results, with the AI pulling details from past conversations to fill in hobbies, interests, and professional quirks.
For those without a deep chat history, a more detailed prompt works just as well. Any generative image AI should handle the request, though ChatGPT remains the most popular choice for the trend.
AI News Story
Amazon rolls out Alexa+ to all US users
Amazon has launched Alexa+ nationwide, offering its next-generation AI assistant for $19.99/month or included at no extra cost for Prime members, making it the company's most aggressive push yet into conversational AI.
The upgraded assistant works across Echo devices, a new Alexa.com web interface, and the mobile app, with capabilities including AI-powered shopping, restaurant reservations, family calendar coordination, and complex topic summaries.
By bundling Alexa+ into Prime at no extra cost, Amazon is making its AI assistant a core household benefit, positioning itself against OpenAI, Google, and Apple in the consumer AI race.
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Companies to Watch/Raising Now
Early-stage AI startups on our radar, before they’re everywhere.
• Adaption Labs
What they do: Builds self-learning models that adapt in real time instead of relying on massive datasets and compute.
Why it matters: Founded by Sara Hooker (ex-Google, ex-Cohere VP of Research), betting efficiency and continuous learning beats brute-force scaling.
Stage: Seed
Raising: $50M
Investors: Emergence Capital
• Midas
What they do: Mathematically verifies AI outputs before deployment, proving correctness instead of trusting probability.
Why it matters: Founded by 11 Math and Informatics Olympiad medalists. Targets biotech, defense, and finance where "almost correct" isn't acceptable.
Stage: Seed
Raising: $10M
Investors: Valor Equity Partners
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