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Inside: real-world use cases and Partner Perspectives you won’t find anywhere else:

• 1. 👩‍💼 Monitor leads with Ava, an AI assistant from Artisan
• 2. 🤖 xAI tests “human emulators” that click and type
• 3. 🏥 How AI improved pricing decisions
• 4. 📈 Turn your AI enthusiasm into marketable skills with Innovating with AI
• 5. 🫁 Bristol Myers taps Microsoft AI for lung cancer detection
• 6. 📄 ServiceNow signs three-year deal with OpenAI

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TOGETHER WITH ARTISAN

Meet Ava, the AI BDR

Ava monitors leads for buying intent and launches multi-channel outreach within minutes. You get leads delivered to your inbox on autopilot while Ava does all the grunt work. 

She's able to:• Prospect from her database of 300M+ contacts• Enrich leads from any publicly available information• Runs dozens of continuous experiments to optimize conversion rates• Find leads using live intent signals (fundraises, job posts, website visitor de-anonymization, etc.) • Import HubSpot lists / Salesforce views in one click• Execute multi-channel outreach + deliverability management

Trusted by teams at Quora, SumUp, and SaaStr.

Latest in AI

xAI tests “human emulators” that click and type

🚨 Our Report

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is testing internal AI systems known as “human emulators,” which are fast computer-using agents that directly see the computer screen, click with a mouse, and type with a keyboard. They are designed to behave like white-collar employees and interact with real staff, with some already appearing on company org charts.

🔓 Key Points

• A former xAI engineer said “human emulators” are already used internally, listed alongside human employees, and in some cases, coworkers did not realize they were interacting with AI.

• The AI workers have shown limitations, including hallucinations and social confusion, such as asking colleagues to meet at desks that do not exist, exposing reliability gaps.

• To scale the effort, xAI is exploring running up to one million human emulators simultaneously, potentially using spare computing power from Tesla vehicles while they charge.

🔐 Relevance

This experiment signals how aggressively leading AI labs are testing virtual employees inside real organizations. For business leaders, it raises questions about disclosure, accountability, and governance when AI systems act as staff. It also highlights how far internal testing still is from dependable, customer-facing deployment.

Partner Perspective

Italy Passes Europe’s First National AI Law

Partner Column exclusively available in this edition of The AI Report
By Karen Odash — Fisher Phillips

“Italy’s message is simple and deliberate: AI should support human decision-making, not replace it.”

The AI Report Podcast

OpenAI Health + Alexa Web: 6 Stories

Case Study

How AI improved pricing decisions

• Reckitt, a global consumer goods company, embedded AI into revenue growth management to guide pricing and promotions across brands and markets.

• Pattern: AI agents inside planning tools generate scenarios and ranked options. Commercial, finance, and sales teams review outputs during cycles, then approve actions.

• Why it matters: replaced spreadsheet-driven judgment with shared data models.

• Metric: Scaled to 35 markets in the last 4 years

• Steal this: Deploy scenario simulations for pricing and promotions, cap autonomy at recommendations, and require weekly human sign-off.

TOGETHER WITH INNOVATING WITH AI

‘AI consultants are getting paid $900/hr’ –Fortune

Fortune Magazine interviewed Innovating with AI’s founder to discuss a crazy stat – AI engineers are being deployed as consultants at $900/hr.

Why did they interview Rob? Because he’s already trained 1,000+ AI consultants  – and IWAI’s exclusive consultant directory has driven Fortune 500 leads to graduates.

Want to learn how to turn your AI enthusiasm into marketable skills, clear services, and a serious business? Enrollment in The AI Consultancy Project is opening in 2026 – and you’ll only hear about it if you apply for access now.

AI News Story

Bristol Myers taps Microsoft AI for lung cancer detection

• Bristol Myers Squibb has signed a deal with Microsoft to deploy FDA-cleared radiology AI through Microsoft’s Precision Imaging Network to speed up early lung cancer detection across U.S. hospitals.

• The system analyzes X-ray and CT scans to flag hard-to-detect lung nodules, aiming to identify patients earlier in the disease pathway and support more precise treatment decisions by clinicians.

• Beyond clinical accuracy, the partnership targets access, with Bristol Myers highlighting plans to expand early detection in underserved settings such as rural hospitals and community clinics.

AI News Story

ServiceNow signs three-year deal with OpenAI

• ServiceNow has signed a three-year partnership with OpenAI to integrate GPT-5.2 into its enterprise workflow platform and develop AI voice technology powered by OpenAI's models.

• The deal positions ServiceNow to offer AI agents directly to enterprise customers, as the company looks to become what executives describe as an "AI control tower."

• This partnership follows a string of acquisitions for ServiceNow, including its nearly $8B purchase of cybersecurity firm Armis last month and its $3B Moveworks acquisition last year. For OpenAI, the deal adds another major enterprise software partner alongside Intuit and Databricks.

Trending AI Tools (sponsored by our tools database)

A curated look at the AI tools quietly transforming how teams work.

1. Chatnode is for building custom, advanced AI chatbots that enhance customer support and user engagement ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Product Hunt)

2. Animatives creates stop motion and time-lapse animations with frame-by-frame control.

3. Writesonic is an AI writing platform for generating SEO content, ads, blogs, and marketing copy.

Companies to Watch/Raising Now

Early-stage AI startups on our radar, before they’re everywhere.

• Legato
What they do: Let business users build plugins and custom tools inside the platforms they already use, no coding required.
Why it matters: Platforms embedding Legato turn their users into mini-developers, creating product extensions in days instead of months.
Stage: Seed
Raising: $7M
Investors: S Capital VC, Cerca Partners

• Ethernovia
What they do: Build Ethernet chips that handle massive sensor data flows for autonomous vehicles and industrial robots.
Why it matters: Designed to move AI workloads at the speed of human reflexes, with low latency and high power efficiency—OEMs are adopting it for next-gen autonomy.
Stage: Series B
Raising: $90M+
Investors: Maverick Silicon, Socratic Partners, Porsche SE, Qualcomm Ventures

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