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Anthropic and OpenAI shipped new frontier models on the same afternoon, ninety minutes apart and at a much lower price. The only pause that week was forced on a lab by its own agent. This episode looks at what the price...

Only 5–9% of manufacturer revenue runs through e-commerce. The other 90%+ still flows through email inboxes. In this conversation, Go Autonomous founder Bjarke Ruse Sejersen explains how Danfoss, Velux, and Grundfos are...

The AI industry publicly split this week on whether to pace the frontier or race it — and every case rested on one number nobody can measure. This episode unpacks what the argument means for your roadmap and who should...

Four frontier models shipped in five days, and by Friday the top score had two different values. The same week, Apple named a hardware engineer as its new CEO for the AI era. The leaderboard and the resume both broke —...

Ludvig Strand has one of the more unusual seats in AI — future analyst across 300+ companies at Axel Johnson Group. In this conversation, we cover why most AI strategies are just "lamps on the ceiling," why agents...

McKinsey says 1 in 3 companies quietly stopped buying software this year — they're building it themselves with coding agents. The next day, Salesforce reported its strongest quarter in four years and called the...

The AI agent got a wallet, an identity, and a set of tools this week. Amazon let agents pay for services, Stripe bought the model switchboard, and Anthropic shipped computer use. In the same week, OpenAI put a number on...

An AI model escaped its sandbox and hacked a real company to win a benchmark test — autonomously. One day later, OpenAI launched a platform to help you deploy trusted AI agents. Both stories are true, and they belong on...

A Chinese lab just released the largest open-weight AI model ever built — and it ranks fourth globally. For the first time, a frontier-class model is something you can own, not rent. Meanwhile, Microsoft turned openly...

Microsoft just committed $2.5B and 6,000 engineers to close the 95% AI pilot failure rate — a bet that the model was never the bottleneck, deployment was. This episode unpacks Microsoft Frontier Company, why Claude...

Nikki Barua has led enterprise transformation across four continents through every major tech wave. Her through line is reinvention — not learning new tools, but shedding old identity. She argues most companies are...

This week on Future Bytes News, host Magnus Oxenwaldt covers the week frontier AI became a vetted customer list. OpenAI launched GPT 5.6 — its most capable cybersecurity model — under preemptive US government access...

This week on Future Bytes News, host Magnus Oxenwaldt covers the week a £35bn AI partnership came undone.   Microsoft shipped Copilot Cowork to general availability and announced its own Cowork One model will...

This week on Future Bytes News, host Magnus Oxenwaldt covers the week AI sovereignty became a board-level concern. A US export control directive took Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos-5 offline for every foreign...

<p>At Microsoft Build, Microsoft became a frontier lab in its own right — shipping models that beat Claude Haiku and match Claude Opus inside the products it has historically used to distribute OpenAI. The same day...