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Welcome to The AI Report — the #1 AI newsletter for business leaders.
We believe you don’t need to be technical. Just informed.
Inside: real-world use cases and Partner Perspectives you won’t find anywhere else:
• 1. 🐋 Own your AI visibility with Triple Whale
• 2. 🥽 Apple accelerating work on three new AI wearables
• 3. 💼 Your Business Briefing
• 4. 💻 Get rid of your personal data from Google with Incogni
• 5. ✍️ Today’s Policy Corner
• 6. 🗞️ The News Bulletin
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TOGETHER WITH TRIPLE WHALE
59x Growth in One Year. Is Your AEO Strategy Ready?
In Q4 2025, Triple Whale merchants generated 424,000+ orders from LLM referrals. In all of 2024? Just 7,152.
AI Engine Optimization (AEO) is redefining ecommerce discovery. The brands gaining visibility through AI platforms aren’t just increasing reach — they’re shaping how their category is understood.
When AI models establish your brand’s position, that perception compounds. Rewriting it later is significantly harder than defining it early.
Triple Whale’s AI Visibility tool shows how LLMs interpret your brand across ChatGPT and other AI platforms — and connects those mentions directly to revenue through attribution.
AEO is at the same inflection point SEO faced in its early years. Early adopters aren’t simply capturing traffic. They’re building durable advantage.
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Latest in AI
Apple is planning three new AI wearables
🚨 Our Report
Apple is ramping up development of three new wearable products: smart glasses, an AI pendant, and camera-equipped AirPods. All three devices are being built around the Siri digital assistant and are designed to compete more aggressively in the AI hardware race.
🔓 Key Points
The smart glasses will feature a high-resolution camera plus a "computer vision" lens for environmental context, allowing the device to function as an all-day AI companion that understands what a user is seeing.
Apple is also developing an AI pendant with two cameras, a speaker, and three microphones. The device would serve as an always-on "eyes and ears" extension of the iPhone, worn clipped to clothing or as a necklace.
Camera-equipped AirPods could launch as early as this year, while the pendant and glasses face longer timelines. The AI pendant "remains early-stage and could still be canceled," but may ship as early as 2027.
🔐 Relevance
These products show Apple's clearest push yet into wearable AI hardware, a category Meta is actively building out with its Ray-Ban smart glasses. For business leaders evaluating AI hardware strategy, the key factor to watch is whether next-generation Siri, which continues to face delays, will be ready to power these devices effectively.
THE BUSINESS BRIEFING: OPERATIONS & IT
Mercari (online marketplace, scaling US operations) was losing IT bandwidth to routine support tickets as headcount grew, so they deployed Moveworks' AI Copilot in Slack to autonomously handle password resets, software provisioning, and device troubleshooting.
Tool used: Moveworks: conversational AI that resolves IT issues via natural language processing in Slack.
Result: 74% of IT tickets now resolved without human intervention. 94% of employees go to the Copilot first instead of messaging IT directly.
The lesson: Employees adopted it because it worked conversationally, no keywords or specific commands required. Friction-free UX drove adoption; adoption drove results.
Steal this: Audit your current IT ticket queue. Identify the top 5 repetitive request types. Those are your automation candidates.
TOGETHER WITH INCOGNI
Unknown number calling? It’s not random…
The BBC caught scam call center workers on hidden cameras as they laughed at the people they were tricking. One worker bragged about making $250k from victims.
The disturbing truth?
Scammers don’t pick phone numbers at random. They buy your data from brokers. Once your data is out there, it’s not just calls. It’s phishing, impersonation, and identity theft.
That’s why we recommend Incogni: They delete your info from the web, monitor and follow up automatically, and continue to erase data as new risks appear.
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THE POLICY CORNER
Governor Hochul signed the Responsible AI Safety and Education Act in December 2025. If you've spent over $100 million training a large AI model that operates in New York, you must publish a safety plan, disclose safety incidents within 72 hours, and submit to oversight from a new office within the Department of Financial Services.
Deadline: Legislation advancing now; timeline for office launch not yet confirmed.
Your move: If you're a large AI developer, confirm your safety documentation is ready for publication and establish a 72-hour incident reporting protocol before March.
AI News
Anthropic releases upgraded computer-use model: The newest Claude model is designed to carry out multi-step actions on a computer, advancing Anthropic's push into agentic AI capabilities. FULL STORY
Figma partners with Anthropic on "Code to Canvas": The new feature converts AI-generated code into editable Figma designs, letting teams refine interfaces built by Claude Code directly on the canvas. FULL STORY
Massachusetts rolls out ChatGPT to 40,000 state employees: Governor Healey announced that all executive-branch workers will receive access to a secure, walled-off OpenAI assistant, making it the first state-wide ChatGPT deployment in the US. FULL STORY
AI training startup Mercor now valued above $10B: The company pays out over $1M daily to expert trainers in medicine, law, and finance who grade AI responses, with revenue run rate jumping from $1M to $500M in under two years. FULL STORY
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The Money: AI agents hit production, infrastructure gaps widen
Investors poured $700M this week into companies solving AI's execution and security layer. As agents move from demos to enterprise deployments, the plumbing becomes the bottleneck.
Deals to know:
Temporal (Series D, $300M) -- Durable execution platform for long-running AI workflows. Revenue up 380% YoY; OpenAI uses it in production. Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed
Koi (Acquisition, $400M by Palo Alto Networks) -- Endpoint security for AI agents operating inside corporate systems. Fortune 50 clients. Investors: Team8, NFX, Battery Ventures
Signal: Smart money betting the next AI bottleneck isn't compute or models, it's making agents safe and reliable enough for production.
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