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AI didn't take the weekend off. Neither did we. Here's every move that mattered last week: top stories, both pods, and tools for you before you’ve had your second coffee. Five minutes. Done.

📰 Catch Up On Your Reading

1. Anthropic ships Opus 4.8
   Anthropic released Opus 4.8, tightening its grip on enterprise AI performance as competition with OpenAI and Google intensifies.
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2. Trade markets inside ChatGPT
   OpenAI moves into financial infrastructure, enabling users to trade markets directly within ChatGPT’s interface.
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3. Google challenges AWS agents
   Google escalates the cloud AI race by launching agent capabilities aimed squarely at AWS’s enterprise dominance.
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4. Google traps 75% of clicks
   New data shows Google retains 75% of search clicks inside its own ecosystem, squeezing publishers and reshaping digital distribution.
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5. Anthropic finds 10K AI flaws
   Anthropic uncovered 10,000 security flaws through automated AI testing, signaling a new phase of model self-auditing.
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🎙️ Last Week's Podcasts

Tuesday Episode

⚡️ Musk vs Altman: case dismissed — Meta cuts 10% of staff and shifts 7,000 into AI roles, Google launches the biggest Search overhaul in 25 years with built-in agents, Amazon adds podcast generation to Alexa Plus, and Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI gets thrown out.

→ Watch on YouTube

Thursday Episode

⚡️ AI traffic to retail is up 393% — Adobe's Vivek Pandya on why AI traffic now outperforms every marketing channel by 48%, why generative engine optimization beats SEO, and what businesses must do today as AI reshapes search and buying behavior.

→ Watch on YouTube

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That's your week. See you Monday.

— Arturo and Liam.

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