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🤝In Partnership: AI agents that finish the work
🤿Deep Dive: EY and Microsoft deepen their alliance to help businesses scale AI
🤝Powered by: Why art keeps showing up in portfolios
🤿Deep Dive: Anthropic Is in talks to use Microsoft's custom AI chips
⚒Tool Snapshots: Tools for AI, no-code, and productivity
🖼AI Art: Examples of great and trending AI art
🤝IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SURETHING
Most AI agents demo well. Few ship real work.
Most AI agents can run a task. The problem is everything around it: setup, memory, context, cost, and figuring out what actually happened.
SureThing turns useful AI skills into autonomous agents with business context, persistent memory, cost-aware model selection, and a live dashboard. Paste a link, assign the work, and your agent reports back like a human teammate: what it did, what it cost, what needs your decision, and what happens next.
Built for founders, operators, and marketers who want AI to ship work, not become another tool to babysit.
🤿 DEEP DIVE
EY and Microsoft Invest Over $1 Billion to Help Enterprises Move from AI Pilots to Real Transformation
Intelligence: EY and Microsoft are expanding their long-standing alliance with a $1,000,000,000 investment over five years, combining Microsoft's engineering teams with EY's industry expertise to help enterprises move beyond AI experiments and into full-scale transformation.
The two companies are deploying joint teams of engineers and business consultants to co-develop industry-specific AI solutions across finance, tax, risk, HR, and supply chain.
EY is using itself as the test case, rolling out Microsoft Copilot to all 400,000 of its people and already recording a 15% productivity boost from its initial 150,000-user deployment.
AI-powered finance operations cut lead times by 95% and reduced costs by over 37%, while AI on EY's Global Tax Platform slashed manual document work by up to 90%.
EY also embedded a new multiagent framework into its audit platform, touching the workflows of 130,000 professionals across 160,000 audit engagements through Microsoft Azure, Foundry, and Fabric.
The initiative will initially focus on financial services, industrials and energy, consumer and retail, government, and healthcare, with shared governance and accountability built in across both organizations.
🤝POWERED BY MASTERWORKS
$992 Billion in Art Could Change Hands. Why Are These 71,105 Investors Paying Close Attention?
Deloitte ran the numbers. They project UHNW art and collectibles wealth -- already at $2.5 trillion -- to hit $3.47 trillion by 2030.
The institutional world has been quietly preparing for this. Back in 2011, 25% of wealth managers surveyed offered art-related services. In 2024, 51%. Family offices now average a 13.4% allocation to art and collectibles. And it’s not just because they love art. It’s because they like the math.
These positions were built over decades through private dealer relationships most investors never had. The access just wasn't there.
Masterworks is changing that:
71,000+ investors
$1.3B deployed across 525+ artworks
29 closed sales
Net annualized returns like 16.5%, 17.6%, and 17.8%, not including those unsold.
Investing involves risk. Past performance is not indicative of future returns. See important disclosures at masterworks.com/cd.
🤿 DEEP DIVE
Microsoft's Maia Chip Could Soon Power Anthropic as the Company Hunts for More Compute
Intelligence: Anthropic is in early talks to use Microsoft's custom Maia AI chip as demand for Claude and Claude Code continues to outpace the company's available computing capacity.
No deal has been signed yet, but the talks signal a growing relationship between Anthropic and Microsoft, which already committed $5,000,000,000 to the company back in November.
Microsoft's Maia 200 chip promises over 30% better cost efficiency compared to standard silicon, though it has not yet been made available to Azure cloud customers outside of Microsoft's own data centers.
Anthropic's compute situation has become increasingly urgent. CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged the company has had real difficulties keeping up, with Claude and Claude Code both seeing explosive growth this year.
To close the gap, Anthropic has been stacking up chip deals fast. It signed a 10-year arrangement with Amazon for Trainium chips, announced plans to use Google's TPU chips, and is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month for compute through 2029.
⚒ TOOL SNAPSHOTS
Futuristic tools within AI, no-code, and productivity
🎬 Gemini Omni - Create and edit rich media from simple prompts.
🛠️ WeWeb 3.0 - Build AI apps visually without losing control of the details.
🌐 Vivaldi 8.0 - Customize every part of your browser your way.
👀 Visual Usability Checker - Spot design issues before your users do.
🧠 Tacet - Track your cognitive health passively from your phone habits.
🖼 AI ART
Examples of great and trending AI art
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