Anthropic Beats OpenAI + Google's $40B Bet | AI News in 5

Pentagon's AI List + Elon Musk Rents His Data Center to Anthropic | AI News in 5

The Pentagon just signed eight AI deals and left Anthropic out. Wall Street is helping both Claude and ChatGPT move deeper into companies. And Elon Musk went from calling Anthropic evil to powering it with his own data center. This week, the Pentagon clears eight major tech companies for classified military AI while Anthropic fights back in court, Anthropic and OpenAI both launch enterprise AI services businesses backed by Wall Street giants, GPT-5.5 Instant becomes ChatGPT's default model with significantly fewer hallucinations, Greg Brockman takes the witness stand in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, and Anthropic signs a deal with SpaceX to use the Colossus 1 data center that Musk built for his own AI company. If you are a founder, operator or executive trying to keep up with AI, this is your weekly news briefing every Tuesday. Stories Covered This Week: * The Pentagon signs AI agreements with Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, AWS, SpaceX, Oracle and Reflection while Anthropic fights to stay on the list * Anthropic launches a $1.5B enterprise AI services company with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs while OpenAI finalizes a $10B joint venture called The Deployment Co * GPT-5.5 Instant is now ChatGPT's default model, making 52.5% fewer errors on high stakes questions * Greg Brockman testifies in Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, revealing tense scenes from the company's early days * Anthropic signs a deal with SpaceX to use Colossus 1, the data center Musk built for xAI, with talks of orbital AI infrastructure to follow Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:20 Pentagon signs eight AI deals, Anthropic left out 01:53 Anthropic and OpenAI launch enterprise AI services businesses 03:30 GPT-5.5 Instant becomes ChatGPT's default model 04:53 Greg Brockman testifies in Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit 06:23 Elon Musk goes from calling Anthropic evil to powering Claude 08:10: Outro Partner Links: Upgrade your AI toolkit: https://www.theaireport.ai/ai-executive-pass [https://www.theaireport.ai/ai-executive-pass] Subscribe to our free newsletter: https://newsletter.theaireport.ai/subscribe [https://newsletter.theaireport.ai/subscribe] Join the community: www.theaireport.ai/leaders-launch-guide [http://www.theaireport.ai/leaders-launch-guide] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

The Exact Formula Charlie Hills Uses to Go Viral on Any Platform | LinkedIn, Instagram and AI Content Strategy

22,000 LinkedIn followers to over 210,000 in just over a year. Charlie Hills did not get there by luck. He got there by reverse engineering what already works, posting with intention every single day, and building systems with AI that most people have not even heard of yet. In this second appearance on The AI Why, Liam Lawson sits down with Charlie Hills to break down exactly how he goes viral across LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok, what his full content creation process looks like with Claude, and why he just launched a SaaS tool built entirely from his own workflows inside Claude Code. Stories Covered This Week: * The pre-validated content strategy that got Charlie 11 million views on his first Instagram reel * The CHEF framework for creating content that does not sound like AI wrote it * How Charlie uses Appify, Claude Code and Gemini together to reverse engineer viral content * Why organic reach on LinkedIn is dying and what to do about it * Claude Code for infographics, carousels, and eventually video editing from the terminal * Vislo, the branded infographic SaaS tool Charlie just launched in public beta * Pattern interrupts, B-roll clarity and what actually stops the scroll on Instagram * Going from 9 to 5 employee to full time creator in nine months Episode timestamps: 00:00 Intro and follower count update 01:03 How Charlie goes viral on any platform 04:01 Steal Like an Artist and pre-validated content 04:53 What structure works on Instagram reels 07:36 Speaking coach, scripting and sounding human 09:06 The full LinkedIn content creation process 10:03 Posting cadence and why twice a day backfired 12:19 The CHEF framework explained 15:07 Appify, Claude Code and scraping for content research 17:04 Claude Co-Work scheduled tasks and workflows 20:22 Going deep into Claude Code for infographics 22:06 How Claude Code memory and the MD file works 24:41 Combining Gemini API inside Claude Code for Instagram scripts 26:53 Where AI ends and humans begin in the content process 30:36 Remotion and the future of AI video editing 33:33 Over-engineering with AI and why it is addictive 35:02 The story behind Vislo, the branded infographic SaaS 40:22 Beta feedback and pricing 42:01 Done For You vs SaaS customers 43:57 Expanding beyond LinkedIn to Instagram, TikTok and YouTube 47:12 What the ideal future of work looks like for Charlie 49:12 The Mexico LinkedIn creator house with Mischa and Corey 53:03 University, failed business and the nine month grind 01:00:01 Did not leave the nine to five to earn more, but to live more 01:00:55 Why do you do what you do? Partner Links Subscribe to our free newsletter: https://newsletter.theaireport.ai/subscribe [https://newsletter.theaireport.ai/subscribe] Join the community: www.theaireport.ai/leaders-launch-guide [http://www.theaireport.ai/leaders-launch-guide] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Anthropic Beats OpenAI + Google's $40B Bet | AI News in 5

Anthropic just passed OpenAI in revenue for the first time ever. Google signed a classified Pentagon deal and then invested $40 billion in the company it competes with. And OpenAI just put an expiry date on every custom GPT. This week, Google locks in a classified defense agreement as Anthropic gets cut out, Google commits $40 billion to its biggest AI rival, Meta posts its fastest growth since 2021 but still watches its stock fall, OpenAI shuts down custom GPTs in favour of autonomous Workspace Agents, and Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in annualized revenue at $30 billion. If you are a founder, operator or executive trying to keep up with AI, this is your weekly five-minute briefing every Tuesday. Stories Covered This Week: * Google signs a classified Pentagon agreement giving access to Gemini for sensitive defense work as Anthropic gets cut out * Google announces plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic despite competing directly with Claude * Meta reports $56.3 billion in Q1 revenue, up 33% year over year, but stock falls 7% on AI spending concerns * OpenAI introduces Workspace Agents and deprecates custom GPTs for business accounts by August 2026 * Anthropic's annualized revenue hits $30 billion, passing OpenAI for the first time Episode timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:20 Google signs classified Pentagon deal 01:10 Google invests $40 billion in Anthropic 02:00 Meta beats earnings but stock falls 02:50 OpenAI replaces custom GPTs with Workspace Agents 03:40 Anthropic passes OpenAI in revenue 04:30 Outro Partner Links Subscribe to our free newsletter: https://newsletter.theaireport.ai/subscribe [https://newsletter.theaireport.ai/subscribe] Join the community: www.theaireport.ai/leaders-launch-guide [http://www.theaireport.ai/leaders-launch-guide] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Monday.com Co-Founder: "We Changed the Vision of the Company Completely" | Roy Mann on the Agent Economy

Monday.com [http://Monday.com] has 225,000 customers and over 60,000 seats at some of its largest accounts. So when its co-founder says the company completely changed its vision, that is worth paying attention to. In this episode, Liam Lawson sits down with Roy Mann, co-founder of Monday.com [http://Monday.com], to talk about the three waves of AI, why managing work is no longer the goal, and how Monday is now betting everything on agents actually doing the work instead. Roy also breaks down Agent Talent, the marketplace where companies can hire AI agents like employees, why Monday opened its platform to agents as first class citizens, and what adaptability really means when technology is moving this fast. Stories Covered This Week: * The three waves of AI and why wave three changes everything * Why Monday changed its core vision from managing work to doing the work * Agent Talent: hiring AI agents like employees with real job postings and qualifications * Selling to agents, not just humans, and what that marketing looks like * The SaaS apocalypse and whether the per seat model is actually dead * OpenClaw, open source AI, and why Roy thinks this is a democratic technology * The future of work, abundance vs scarcity, and why adaptability is the only skill that matters Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:45 The three waves of AI 03:42 Customer reception to agents 07:16 The developer who went from terrified to empowered 10:33 What personality traits succeed in the agent economy 12:16 Monday's internal AI infrastructure 19:44 Agent Talent and selling to agents 24:50 How to sell to an agent 27:37 Testing and qualifying agents with Sensei 30:22 Why open source matters 32:22 The future of work 36:44 Is the per seat model dead? 39:51 OpenClaw and local models 44:04 Paperclip and multi-agent orchestration 52:09 Roy's ideal future of work 56:42 Betting everything on agents with Monday stock down 76% 01:00:00 Where Monday's adaptability comes from 01:01:43 Why do you do what you do? Partner Links Subscribe to our free newsletter: https://newsletter.theaireport.ai/subscribe [https://newsletter.theaireport.ai/subscribe] Free AI Tool Stack: https://community.theaireport.ai/checkout/the-ai-report-welcome-gift?coupon_code=WRTH [https://community.theaireport.ai/checkout/the-ai-report-welcome-gift?coupon_code=WRTH] Join the community: www.theaireport.ai/leaders-launch-guide [http://www.theaireport.ai/leaders-launch-guide] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

GPT-5.5 Drops + Anthropic's Mythos Gets Breached | AI News in 5

The AI model that was too dangerous to release just got breached. Anthropic entered the design software market. And OpenAI dropped its biggest model yet, just six weeks after the last one. This week, the NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite the Pentagon blacklisting the company, Claude Design takes on Figma and sends its stock down 7%, Yelp transforms into an agentic consumer app, Mythos gets accessed by an unauthorized Discord group, and OpenAI fires back with GPT-5.5. If you are a founder, operator, or executive trying to keep up with AI, this is your weekly five-minute briefing every Tuesday. Stories Covered This Week: * NSA uses Anthropic's Mythos Preview despite the Pentagon declaring the company a supply chain risk * Anthropic launches Claude Design, a prompt-to-prototype design tool that sent Figma stock down 7% * Yelp's upgraded AI assistant can now book restaurants, doctors, and more in one conversation * Anthropic investigates unauthorized access to Mythos through a third-party vendor environment * OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, scoring 88.7% on SWE-bench with a 60% drop in hallucinations vs GPT-5.4 Episode Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:20 NSA uses Anthropic's Mythos despite Pentagon blacklist 01:10 Anthropic launches Claude Design 02:00 Yelp's AI assistant goes full service 02:50 Anthropic investigates Mythos breach 03:40 OpenAI drops GPT-5.5 04:30 Outro Partner Links Subscribe to our free newsletter: https://newsletter.theaireport.ai/subscribe [https://newsletter.theaireport.ai/subscribe] Join the community: www.theaireport.ai/leaders-launch-guide [http://www.theaireport.ai/leaders-launch-guide] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]