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Good morning, {{first_name|there}}. AMD just wrote a $5 billion check to Anthropic, Google printed the biggest AI quarter in history, and OpenAI's agents are now answering its own phones.
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🚀 The Big Story: AMD bets $5B on Anthropic
AMD is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic and committing 2 gigawatts of its new MI450-series GPUs — the biggest direct chipmaker-to-lab deal Nvidia's rival has ever signed.
The hardware: First gigawatt deploys in H1 2027, pairing MI455X GPUs with AMD's new 256-core EPYC "Venice" CPUs — the first volume HPC chip built on TSMC's 2nm node, claiming a 70% jump over the last generation.
The strategy: Anthropic gets a real second source of frontier compute and less dependence on Nvidia; AMD gets a flagship AI lab to prove its chips at frontier scale.
The context: It lands the same week Wistron opened a $700M Fort Worth plant mass-producing Nvidia GB300 chips on US soil — the compute land-grab is going vertical on every side.
Jason's take: Ignore the chip specs — the number that matters is 2 gigawatts. Compute is the new distribution, and every lab locking in supply now is telling you model prices keep falling through 2027. If you're building on Claude or any frontier API, the smart move is architecting for cheaper tokens, not rationing them.
⚡ Quick Hits
Google's monster quarter. Alphabet posted $119.8B in revenue with Cloud up 82% to $24.8B and Gemini at 950M monthly users — AI spend is converting to revenue faster than anyone modeled.
OpenAI's agents answer its own phones. The new Presence platform resolves 75% of OpenAI's inbound support calls with no human handoff — the strongest proof yet that customer-facing agents are production-ready.
Monday.com cuts 20% to go agent-first. 620 roles gone as the company reorganizes around "human-and-agent collaboration" — expect more SaaS teams to copy this org chart.
Claude can now learn by watching you. Cowork's "Record a Skill" turns a screen recording plus narration into a reusable automation for Pro, Max, and Team users.
Reddit may walk from Google's $60M/yr deal. The stock dropped 8% on the report — publishers are learning their content is leverage, and AI licensing prices are about to reset.
Terence Tao credits ChatGPT on a major result. The Fields Medalist publicly cited the model's calculations in new Jacobian conjecture work — frontier math just normalized AI co-authorship.
📡 Trending on X
The Anthropic–robotics rumor won't die. A viral post claimed Anthropic is buying $11B robot-brain startup Physical Intelligence; the CEO denied it, then reporting confirmed real talks happened this spring — AI Twitter is now betting on who moves first.
The White House called out Moonshot by name. OSTP accused Kimi K3 of being "covertly distilled" from Anthropic's Fable, while OpenAI's Greg Brockman shrugged that it's "too early to tell" — the distillation fight just went state-level.
A pastor is suing OpenAI over ChatGPT health advice. The suit says GPT-4o suggested "recliner-based micro-recovery" before a pulmonary embolism landed him in the ICU — the first big AI medical-liability case is here.
53% of Americans don't want a data center next door. A new Redfin/Ipsos poll has opposition beating support 53–34, and the NIMBY-vs-compute discourse is running hot.
🛠 The Workflow: Clone your busywork in 20 minutes
Claude's new "Record a Skill" means you can turn any repetitive task into an automation by just doing it once on camera. Here's the play:
Pick one task you repeat weekly — reporting, formatting, data pulls, invoice chasing.
Open Cowork on desktop and hit Record a Skill before you start.
Do the task once, narrating your decisions out loud ("I skip rows with no email, I always bold the totals").
Save the skill, then run it on next week's version and correct anything it gets wrong.
Stack a second skill next week — two recorded skills usually buys back 2–3 hours.
Reply with the word "SKILLS" and I'll send you my list of the 10 tasks worth automating first.
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