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AI didn't take the weekend off. Neither did we. Here's every move that mattered last week: top stories, the pod, and tools for you before you’ve had your second coffee. Five minutes. Done.
📰 Catch Up On Your Reading
Claude Haiku 5.5 drops pricing 75%, reshaping cost math for enterprise AI at scale — Anthropic's cheapest model yet targets high-volume tasks like summaries and classification, with Atlassian reporting 30%+ latency reduction in early testing. → Read the full issue
Anthropic bans abuse against Claude, becomes first AI lab to restrict user behavior — The company updated its usage policy to prohibit "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward its models, with Claude now able to end conversations as enforcement. → Read the full issue
Meta, Walmart, and Stripe publish open standard for AI agent authentication — The "personal agent protocol" verifies whether bots act on behalf of real users, addressing how companies distinguish AI agents from humans accessing their platforms. → Read the full issue
Pentagon confirms it has stopped using Anthropic after national security designation — Claude had remained embedded in military operations until this week, including Palantir's Maven intelligence platform, after Anthropic refused to remove safety guardrails. → Read the full issue
Trump appoints Jay Clayton to lead 120-day AI task force, rejects slowdown proposals — The new AI czar dismissed industry calls for coordinated development pauses, saying "the risk of not being first is high" as the administration signals acceleration over safety. → Read the full issue
🎙️ Last Week's Podcast
⚡️ How 175-Year-Old PwC Built AI Into Its Business Model — PwC Partner Ian Kahn on why 20% of companies capture 75% of AI's value, overcoming resistance to change, and using agent portfolios to free capacity for higher-value work.
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