Is the AI boom about to reshape the global power structure — and your business model with it?
OpenAI just made its long-anticipated leap into the for-profit world — triggering billion-dollar investments, a trillion-dollar valuation trajectory, and a redefined power dynamic with Microsoft. But that’s just one headline in a week filled with seismic shifts in the AI ecosystem.
From Anthropic rolling out memory (finally) to Claude, to Canva dropping a free Adobe killer, to ChatGPT hitting 1M weekly suicide-related chats — this episode is a full-throttle ride through the wild frontier of AI, business, and ethics.
Whether you're leading a team, shaping policy, or trying to future-proof your strategy — this is the episode you can’t afford to skip.
In this session, you'll discover:
- Why OpenAI's restructure gives the nonprofit surprising control — and what that signals for governance
- The trillion-dollar IPO roadmap (yes, trillion) and why SoftBank just doubled down
- Microsoft's 27% stake in OpenAI and what it reveals about their AI dominance strategy
- OpenAI’s urgent call to the White House: “Electricity is the new oil”
- How Claude is challenging ChatGPT with memory, portability, and frictionless context
- Canva vs Adobe: Why a free Affinity suite might shake up the design software world
- Music industry disruptions: OpenAI enters the AI-music ring with Suno in its sights
- The billion-dollar legaltech boom and what it means for professional services
- Crypto-trading AIs: Which models are winning with real money — and which are tanking
- Why Google's new AI Earth tools could save lives (or at least predict cholera outbreaks)
- What the rise of agentic browsers and multi-model orchestration means for your stack
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