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• 1. 📈 Get ahead of building an agentic enterprise with Salesforce
• 2. ⚡️ OpenAI drops GPT-5.5
• 3. 💼 Your Business Briefing
• 4. 💸 Grow revenue with Mode Mobile
• 5. ✍️ Today’s Policy Corner
• 6. 🗞️ The News Bulletin
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Latest in AI
OpenAI drops GPT-5.5
🚨 Our Report
OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, a model built for agentic work that can plan multi-step tasks, use tools, and check its own output with less supervision than previous versions. It handles coding, research, and document creation, and can navigate ambiguity without constant hand-holding.
🔓 Key Points
On Terminal-Bench 2.0, which tests complex command-line workflows, GPT-5.5 achieved 82.7% accuracy, while on SWE-Bench Pro for real-world GitHub issue resolution, it scored 58.6%, outperforming its predecessor.
While more capable, GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4's per-token latency and uses fewer tokens to complete tasks, making it both smarter and more cost-efficient for enterprise deployments.
GPT-5.5 is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT and Codex, with API pricing set at $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens.
🔐 Relevance
For enterprise teams already using AI for software development and knowledge work, GPT-5.5 offers a notable upgrade in autonomy and reasoning. The model's ability to handle multi-step tasks with less hand-holding could reduce the need for constant prompt engineering. API pricing, while higher than GPT-5.4, is offset by the model's token efficiency, which OpenAI says delivers better results with less compute.
THE BUSINESS BRIEFING: HR & TALENT (powered by Upscaile)
Growexx (global dev shop, builds digital products and AI solutions) was drowning in resume screening. Their recruiters burned 80+ hours per week reading CVs for technical roles, interviews took weeks to schedule, and competitors hired talent 60% faster. They deployed Hirin to automate candidate screening and async video interviews.
Tool used: Hirin -- AI-powered resume screening and asynchronous video interview platform.
Result: 80+ hours saved per week. 50% cost reduction per hire. Candidates moved from application to interview in days instead of weeks.
The lesson: Speed wins technical talent. Growexx automated the screening bottleneck but kept human judgment at the final stage—AI ranked candidates, recruiters made the call.
Steal this: This week, track how many hours your team spends reading resumes. If it's more than 10 hours for a single role, test an AI screening tool on your next posting. Route only the top-ranked 20% to human review.
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THE POLICY CORNER
FTC activates Take It Down enforcement for nonconsensual AI deepfakes — 48-hour removal rule starts May 2025.
The Take It Down Act, signed last year, allows victims to file removal notices for AI-generated sexual deepfakes hosted on websites. Starting May 2025, companies have 48 hours to remove flagged content after receiving a complaint or face FTC investigation and enforcement action. Applies to any platform hosting user-generated content, regardless of size or location.
Deadline: May 2025. The complaint mechanism goes live. Enforcement begins immediately after the first notices are filed.
Your move: If you host user content, build a 48-hour removal process now. Route Take It Down complaints to legal and content moderation teams. Test response time this month, waiting until May is too late.
AI News
💻 NEC partners with Anthropic to deploy Claude across 30,000 employees: Japan's NEC Corporation will roll out Claude to its entire global workforce, building one of Japan's largest AI-native engineering teams while jointly developing secure AI solutions for finance, manufacturing, and government sectors. FULL STORY
📊 Crypto exchanges tie AI usage to performance reviews: OKX, Bybit, and Bitget now require daily AI tool usage across all employees, with some exchanges mandating 90%+ of code be AI-assisted and tracking token usage as a core KPI during quarterly evaluations. FULL STORY
🏥 OpenAI launches free ChatGPT for verified clinicians: Physicians, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists in the US can now access ChatGPT for Clinicians at no cost, featuring clinical search across millions of peer-reviewed sources and HIPAA-compliant workflows for documentation and research. FULL STORY
🌏 Microsoft commits $18B to Australia's AI infrastructure: The tech giant will expand Azure cloud capacity by 140% by 2029 and train 3M Australians on AI by 2028, marking its largest-ever investment in the country and building on partnerships with government agencies for cybersecurity and critical infrastructure. FULL STORY
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The Money: AI moving from models to infrastructure
Enterprise buyers are betting on AI foundations, not frontier capabilities. Two major deals this week signal capital flowing toward governed AI deployment infrastructure rather than raw compute or model development.
Deals to know:
Omni (Series C, $120M) -- AI analytics platform built on semantic models that enforce business context and permissions across both native dashboards and external AI agents. Revenue tripled YTD after 4x growth last year. Investors: ICONIQ, Theory Ventures, First Round Capital, Redpoint Ventures, GV
Coforge (Acquisition, $2.5B) -- IT services firm acquiring Silicon Valley AI firm Encora to scale enterprise AI implementation capacity. Funded with $550M syndicated loan at 4.6% fixed rate. Investors: JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, HSBC, BNP Paribas
Signal: Smart money betting the AI bottleneck shifted from access to trust. Companies paying premium valuations for governance layers and implementation expertise over raw model capability.
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