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In five business days, Anthropic signed $200B with Google, leased a SpaceX supercomputer, and walked Wall Street through ten pre-built banking agents — eight days after the U.S. Department of Defense blacklisted them. Explore the four moves your 2026 roadmap needs in response.

For this week’s AI News: Three orders of magnitude now separate US, Chinese, and European AI bets. We unpack the week's $700B numbers and the four questions every business leader should bring to their next planning session.What Stood Out This Week:US AI infrastructure spend hit a new scale. The four big hyperscalers reported $130B in combined capex for one quarter, with full-year 2026 tracking above $700B.Anthropic raised $65B in five days, then got shut out of the Pentagon. Classified AI contracts went to Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, SpaceX, and Reflection.China's AI stack is now complete: Own models, own silicon, own buyers.

For this weeks AI News: Four major AI models launched in five days. GPT-5.5 went agentic, DeepSeek hit the frontier at one-tenth the price, and Anthropic bet $100 billion on compute. The era of standardizing on one model is over.Top stories for week 18:GPT-5.5 launches as an autonomous agent built to complete tasks, not assist with themDeepSeek V4 Pro hits frontier quality at one-tenth the price, on Chinese siliconAnthropic signs a $100 billion AWS compute deal and resets API defaults to Opus 4.7Google launches Gemini Enterprise, a single runtime for 200+ models including Claude

79% of workers believe AI will accelerate their careers. 46% of those same workers are burning out. In this episode of Future Bytes, Magnus Oxenwaldt speaks with Paulina Modlitba, civil engineer, former MIT Media Lab researcher, consultant, and author of What the Hell Should I Do With AI? about what’s actually happening to people inside the AI revolution.

An AI model capable of uncovering thousands of unknown vulnerabilities was built and not released. The decision, and the response from governments, signals a shift: AI is no longer just accelerating innovation, it’s exposing risk at scale. Top stories for week 16:Anthropic withholds a frontier model after discovering large-scale zero-day vulnerabilitiesThousands of security flaws identified across widely used systems, most still unpatchedGovernments convene emergency meetings to assess systemic AI-driven cybersecurity risksCybersecurity moves to the top of the agenda as AI changes the threat landscape

One of the world’s most safety-focused AI companies exposed its own source code due to a simple configuration error. The incident points to a broader shift: as AI moves into production, the real challenge is no longer the models themselves, but the governance, processes, and operational maturity around them.  Top stories for week 15:  Anthropic incidents highlight how operational risk can impact even leading AI players Most enterprises are still early in scaling AI agents, with limited visibility and control New solutions emerge to manage agent identity, access, and governance Enterprise platforms accelerate deployment of AI agents across core business workflows 

In this episode of Future Bytes, host Magnus Oxenwaldt sits down with Garret Kersten, Senior Solutions Engineer from Wausau Supply Company and Andrew Kraus, Account Executive at Columbus to talk about turning AI from hype into real business value. By focusing on a clear case and working closely with the business, the team delivered a solution with tangible impact. The approach is pragmatic. Start small, focus on real needs, and build based on results. As Kersten highlights, success depends on close alignment with the business and the ability to adapt along the way. 

We are heading into Easter break with a new episode of Future Bytes News, your weekly updates on AI in business. This time, host, Magnus Oxenwaldt, VP Group AI at Columbus covers these top stories:  OpenAI abandons a billion-dollar Disney deal to focus on enterprise. Anthropic advances with AI coworkers and cybersecurity-grade models. The shift signals that AI is moving from consumer hype to business-critical infrastructure.