{{first_name | Leader}}, welcome back.
AI progress is starting to look less like raw speed and more like refinement. Better margins, tighter dev workflows, and more control over how tools behave all surfaced in the last 24 hours. Here are today’s updates:
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OpenAI enterprise sales deliver higher margins
Cursor buys Graphite to expand AI code review
ChatGPT adds user controls for tone and warmth
Tools, resources, and a prompt to see what you should document before year-end ⬇️
Available across interfaces, including your IDE, CLI, and CI/CD, Droid lets you hand off real work like refactors, migrations, and incident response without changing your tools or workflow. Droid is the number 1 coding agent across every model.
The future is agent-first, with developers moving faster by orchestrating many agents in parallel instead of relying on incremental autocomplete.
Enterprise customers are driving OpenAI’s margins
OpenAI is making more money from enterprise and business users than from individual subscriptions. Products like ChatGPT Enterprise, API usage, and custom deployments are driving higher margins because companies pay for security, control, and reliability, not novelty.
This tells where OpenAI’s focus really is. Enterprise customers are now the core business, which usually means better tooling, faster feature rollouts, and longer-term stability for teams building on the platform.
Cursor pulls code review deeper into its stack
Cursor acquired Graphite, an AI code review startup, and is folding it into its existing coding and debugging tools. The goal is clear: own more of the software workflow from writing code to reviewing and shipping it.
Fewer standalone tools, more all-in-one developer platforms, and rising expectations that AI helps across the full engineering lifecycle, not just code generation.
ChatGPT adds tone controls
ChatGPT now lets users adjust tone, enthusiasm, emoji use, and formatting through personalization settings. This comes after mixed reactions to earlier tone changes and gives users more say in how the assistant sounds.
This is mostly a polish update. Helpful for consistency and comfort, but it does not change the platform’s economics or how serious work gets done.
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Useful Resources
Gemini’s new approach to detecting AI-generated video.
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A quick roundup of AI-powered search tools worth trying right now.
Anthropic’s open-source agent framework for evaluating frontier models.
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💰 Funding
Factorial Capital has launched Fund II with $25M, focusing on early-stage tech investments.
Donna raised $4.8M to expand its AI-powered productivity assistant.
💼 Roles in AI
🐦 Who rules the market?
What Should We Document Before Year-End
When to use this?
When you want to capture critical knowledge, decisions, and context before people go offline, Q1 momentum gets lost.
You are my Chief of Staff focused on continuity.
Based on the update below, identify:
Decisions that must be documented so they are not re-litigated in Q1
Processes or workflows that only live in people’s heads today
Context future teams will need to understand why choices were made
3 documents to create now with suggested titles and owners
Keep it practical and under 180 words.
Update: [paste current initiatives, decisions made this year, or known dependencies]Correct Input Style:
Update:
We changed pricing mid-year.
AI pilots were approved but not fully rolled out.
Sales exceptions handled case by case.
Vendor consolidation discussions happened but no final memo.
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