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OpenAI co-founder calls for AI labs
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NEWS UPDATES
Nvidia Sets AI-Chip Revenue Record
Nvidia reported $28 billion in quarterly sales, up 70 % year-over-year, as cloud giants and Fortune 500 buyers signed multi-year GPU contracts. Management said its 2026 capacity is already “substantially reserved,” and gross margin climbed despite supply limits.
The cap-ex super-cycle is alive and well. Lock in 2025-26 GPU or accelerator allocations now, and bake longer lead-times into AI product roadmaps to avoid cost spikes and delivery delays.
Google & Grok Nearly Match GPT-4o
A16Z’s new benchmark shows Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok-2 scoring within three points of GPT-4o on reasoning and coding tasks, while inference cost is 15-20 % lower. Both challengers improved quickly over the past two model revisions, closing quality gaps many thought would last until 2026.
Credible alternatives give you price-negotiation leverage. Run a side-by-side test on your highest-value workflow before renewing OpenAI contracts, and pressure vendors to compete on latency, guardrails, and total cost of ownership.
OpenAI Co-Founder Calls for Cross-Lab Safety Audits
OpenAI & Anthropic, the two rival labs, gave each other special API access (minus some guardrails) to probe for hidden failure modes and publish a shared report. The experiment, revealed Wednesday, is the first time leading AI companies have let outsiders red-team pre-release models at this depth.
Why you should care: cross-lab testing could become the gold standard as regulators eye mandatory audits. If you depend on supplier models, budget for longer release cycles, new compliance fees, and third-party evaluations in next year’s planning.
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Scrutinise OpenAI + Anthropic’s new safety-audit playbook, checklists you can copy today (link)
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Map the 33 U.S. AI startups that topped $100 M funding (link)
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MARKET
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Attio raised $52M Series B to scale its AI-native CRM platform.
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🐦 AI Crash Course: By Anthropic
Anthropic literally dropped the ultimate free AI crash course you'll ever see
— #Aadit Sheth (#@aaditsh)
4:58 AM • Aug 27, 2025
PROMPT TUTORIAL
Designing a Board-Ready Transformation Portfolio Blueprint
You are a pro enterprise strategist tasked with producing a board-ready brief for a [ORG_CONTEXT].
Identify the three biggest constraints to achieving [STRATEGIC_OBJECTIVE] and quantify their impact on cost, speed, or risk.
Prioritize a portfolio of 3-5 bets with owners, dependencies, and 90-day milestones, including one stop/slow decision.
Define how success will be tracked with a single [NORTH_STAR] and set a weekly review cadence with pivot thresholds.
Organization Context: [Insert here]
Strategic Objective: [Insert here]
North Star: [Insert here]
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