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Hey there,
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.
Plus, our live Claude cohort starts November 11.
📰 Catch Up On Your Reading
OpenAI cuts prices 50% with GPT-6.1 Terra — Faster model handles visual reasoning and computer control at half the cost, with hallucinations dropping from 53.6% to 16.7%. → Read the full issue
Mistral's trillion-parameter AI targets cybersecurity — French company releases open-weight Le Chonk model for on-premises deployment, matching GLM-5.3 while using 47% fewer tokens. → Read the full issue
SpaceX closes $40B debt deal for Nvidia GPUs — Callable debt financing locks up chip capacity through first half of 2027 as AI business surges ninefold to $7.56B. → Read the full issue
Amazon bans "tokenmaxxing" after engineers game system — Internal memo discourages excessive AI use without quality gains, shuts down leaderboard that rewarded token volume over productivity. → Read the full issue
Anthropic launches ROI tracking tools as profits arrive — New reporting suite shows team output, costs, and workflow breakdowns as Q2 operating profit hits and customers spend 9x more year-over-year. → Read the full issue
🎙️ Last Week's Podcast
How Rare Scaled an AI Agent From 200 to 16,000 Users — Brett Jenks explains how Rare built Agent Tierra, an AI agent on WhatsApp that coaches Colombian farmers on regenerative agriculture, cut input costs by 30%, raised yields by 30%, and scaled from 200 early adopters to 16,000 users by building trust before deploying technology.
Our Claude cohort starts November 11
Over four live weeks, the Agentic Brain team will show you how to get better results from Claude, work with your own files, build skills, and set Claude up to handle routine tasks. No coding is involved. There are just 30 founding seats, so each session is hands-on and personal.
By the end, you'll have a Claude Project built around your own work, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files created straight from a conversation, your first custom skills, and a scheduled task running without you.
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That's your week. See you Monday.
— The AI Report Team.
