The AI Breakdown

In this week’s AI Weekly Briefing, I break down the biggest developments in artificial intelligence from the past seven days, from viral open-source AI agents like OpenClaw, to major enterprise moves as Snowflake deepens its partnership with OpenAI.

You’ll also hear how Amazon Ads is adopting the Model Context Protocol to make agent-driven workflows more practical, why cybersecurity firms like Malwarebytes are exploring AI-native t...

CES 2026 quietly marked a turning point. AI stopped being the shiny feature you bolt on for a headline, and started behaving like electricity. It's just assumed.

In this episode, I break down the five AI themes that defined the show:

• AI PCs go mainstream: Your next laptop refresh might be your biggest AI decision this year. AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm are putting serious on-device capability into enterprise hardware, and that cha...

In this week’s AI news breakdown, we look at how Google and Shopify are accelerating agentic commerce, with open protocols for AI shopping agents and in chat checkout through Gemini.

Also on the radar:

• Shopify Winter ’26 RenAIssance and what Agentic Storefronts mean for merchants
• OpenAI’s ad model for ChatGPT and the knock on effects for marketing and trust
• Wikipedia signing paid access deals with AI firms and what it signals ...

This week on The AI Breakdown, the AI arms race goes fully physical.

SoftBank has completed a massive investment into OpenAI, locking in an estimated 11 percent stake and reinforcing a message the entire industry is starting to accept: the real bottleneck is not ideas, it is infrastructure.

From there, we zoom into the compute race as xAI expands its Memphis supercluster again, aiming for training capacity on the scale of gigawatts...

AI is getting embedded everywhere and this week proved it. Salesforce is buying Qualified to power always on AI agents for pipeline. Lovable just raised big money at a massive valuation as vibe coding explodes. Microsoft and Google are leaning on partners to push AI from pilots to production. Notion reveals that AI now drives a huge chunk of revenue, and Zoom launches AI Companion 3.0 to turn meetings into actions.

But there’s a ca...

In this week’s 10 minute AI news roundup, I break down a headline grabbing Disney move that could redefine what “legal generative AI” looks like at scale. Disney is reportedly investing $1 billion in OpenAI, negotiating warrants for optionality, licensing a vault of iconic characters for Sora, and rolling out ChatGPT across the company with strict guardrails. But the backlash is already here, with the Writers Guild of America warni...

This week I break down the biggest moves shaping the future of AI. OpenAI’s new enterprise report shows explosive adoption and usage growth, IBM drops eleven billion on Confluent to own the data-streaming backbone, Accenture goes deep with Anthropic in a partnership that could reshape corporate AI, and Runway’s Gen 4.5 quietly leapfrogs the giants in video generation. We also look at Instacart’s new agentic shopping experience insi...

This week on The AI Breakdown, I’m unpacking the biggest signals in AI - from Accenture’s massive OpenAI partnership to Lyft’s 87% support-time drop using Claude, to why 79% of companies are quietly rolling back their AI projects.

We dig into:

• How consulting giants are gearing up to sell AI transformation at scale
• OpenAI’s surprising move into accounting and IT services
• TwelveLabs’ new video model turning dark data into gold
• N...

This week we’re looking at AI moving from hype to hands-on.

We start with OpenAI and DoorDash running “AI Jam” workshops for over 1,000 small businesses across US cities – helping restaurant owners, accountants and retailers build AI tools they can actually use the next day. Meanwhile, the tech giants are doing the opposite of slowing down: nearly $90 billion raised in fresh bonds to fuel data centres, GPUs and cloud infrastructure...

In this week’s AI Weekly News Briefing, OpenAI smashes past one million paying businesses, lands a colossal $38 billion cloud deal with AWS, and fuels a fresh round of platform upgrades. Apple flirts with letting Google’s Gemini run Siri, Brussels softens the EU AI Act to give builders some breathing space, Shopify’s agentic AI sends sales soaring, and Verizon quietly builds the pipes that make all this magic actually work. We wrap...

This week in AI: OpenAI has officially grown up with a new governance structure and fresh regulatory sign-offs, Microsoft tightens its grip with a mega-stake, and the capital taps are opening wider than ever.

We dig into what this new structure means for trust, safety, and OpenAI’s future power plays, plus the SoftBank funding wave and why enterprise buyers suddenly look a lot more comfortable betting big on AI.

Meanwhile AWS isn’t...

Everything that mattered in AI in the last week in one focused briefing. We start with headline moments that shift markets and compute supply: SoftBank’s massive final tranche for OpenAI and Anthropic’s scale up with Google TPUs.

Then we move to product and policy: Microsoft Copilot’s memory and group features and a 30,000 person NHS pilot that reported 43 minutes saved per worker per day. We explain why OpenAI’s UK data residency ...

This week in AI: OpenAI's Sora 2 ignites a firestorm in Hollywood as studios and unions raise alarm over AI-generated videos featuring real people's likenesses. Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, a breakthrough model that can actually click, scroll, and navigate websites like a human, no APIs required. eBay launches a £3 million initiative giving 10,000 small businesses free access to ChatGPT Enterprise, leveling the playing f...

Imagine using AI to tell you who's smiling at your jokes, and then turning that into the punchline. That's exactly what Chris McCausland does.

Chris is a blind British stand-up comedian who's become an unlikely champion of AI technology. Fresh off his historic Strictly Come Dancing win, he's using his platform to show how artificial intelligence is transforming accessibility, and mining it for comedy gold along the way. From AI app...