Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Business and Enterprise for the week ending August 28, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A 16:9 mid-1980s murder-mystery movie poster of a wide gothic Victorian mansion in stark black-and-white pen-and-ink engraving on pure black, 'Business' in fat rounded extra-heavy white sans-serif above the roofline; warm amber windows reveal costumed suspects (a tycoon CEO with a term sheet, a venture capitalist fanning cash, a hoodie-and-tuxedo founder with a pitch deck), still-life windows crowded with spiking stock charts, champagne flutes, merger contracts and a toppled hourglass, and one window showing a shadow of a unicorn on the glass. Centered in the open front door stands the same slim upright silver-haired butler in his sixties with a pencil mustache, black tailcoat, white gloves, holding a silver tray with a sealed envelope stamped with a tiny dollar-sign wax seal, campy spooky theatrical lighting, dense crosshatching, symmetrical frontal composition.
This Week in Business and Enterprise News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- Nvidia's very large quarter: Nvidia's Q2 revenue reached $96.2 billion, up 106% year over year, with data center at $89.0 billion. The deal chatter followed: a reported $12.9 billion agreement to buy Hugging Face and talks about investing in Perplexity at a $30 billion-plus valuation.
- Anthropic's enterprise push: Salesforce and Anthropic expanded their partnership under the Claudeforce name, and a reported $45 billion cloud deal with Nscale surfaced. Anthropic also made Claude's MCP connector authorization manageable through a company's identity provider, a practical step for larger customers.
- OpenAI pricing and workplace products: OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol API prices by about 20% for input and 33% for output through at least November 21. It also introduced a $100 ChatGPT Business Premium seat and published a long run of ChatGPT Work tutorial videos.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Business and Enterprise
Opus 5 Overtakes Fable 5 as AI Buyers Cut Costs
https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-opus-5-overtakes-fable-5-corporate-spending/
Instinct, the viral AI assistant, has already raised $350 million, including a new round that values the startup at $2.5 billion.”
https://x.com/KateClarkTweets/status/2092668967500292452
You can just use your voice | ChatGPT Work – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceBruD6v5Bk
Make information visual with ChatGPT – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzmNh8lbSp8
How to Manage Your Workspace With ChatGPT Work – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29SyCndnMZs
How to Build a Personalized Meal Planner with ChatGPT Work – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t64oZKCdG8Q
Build a Shareable Site – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qK3KqvtRrg
Plugins & Skills – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QPBVrAAdBk
Use Your Computer and Browser – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=981SivztzOc
Talk to ChatGPT Work – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLcQSp_CIIc
Getting Started with ChatGPT Work – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk4VyQxDq5s
Create Slides, Docs, and Templates – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syML5KT-HzI
Scheduled Tasks – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urXc4xxixVU
Use ChatGPT Work on Your Phone – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfnh8SuMbNw
Build agent-ready sites with WebMCP – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is2NHa7awWY
Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/accel-backed-keenable-is-indexing-the-web-for-ai-agents/
Had a lot of fun chatting again with my twin brother @dylan522p We went through lab economics over the next few years – the shift from inference to training as RSI draws near; and how Anthropic and OpenAI are on track to control most of the world’s usable FLOPs within the next”
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2092280377255551320
Introducing Gemini Enterprise for Legal | Google Cloud Blog
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-gemini-enterprise-for-legal
Alibaba launches Wan3.0 AI video model after record $10 billion share sale
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/alibaba-launches-wan3-0-ai-131300534.html
EXCLUSIVE: The AI founders who walked away from Bezos-backed Prometheus to model the universe | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-founders-who-walked-away-bezos-backed-prometheus-model-universe-2026-08-25/
Anthropic and Nscale strike $45 billion cloud deal, sources say
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/26/anthropic-and-nscale-strike-45-billion-cloud-deal-sources-say.html
Exclusive | Anthropic Expected to Tell Investors It Sees Over $30 Trillion in Potential Revenue – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-expected-to-tell-investors-it-sees-over-30-trillion-in-potential-revenue-a611efea
Salesforce, Anthropic expand partnership amid ‘SaaSpocalypse’ concerns
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/26/salesforce-anthropic-partnership-claudeforce.html
Anthropic hires Google TPU veteran Amir Salek for its own chip push
https://runtimewire.com/article/anthropic-hires-google-tpu-veteran-amir-salek-chip-team
Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dylan-patel-3
Rolling into Vegas in style. 🎰 @VenetianVegas has named Waymo as its first official ride-hailing partner. Through this multi-year partnership, guests traveling to and from The Venetian Resort will enjoy seamless autonomous rides throughout the city.”
https://x.com/Waymo/status/2092658344720810010
For some brands, AI platforms and services are proving to be game-changing for their ability to speed up creative processes, and save money.
https://x.com/Digiday/status/2091926096052695388
Today Hark is announcing a multi-year partnership with NVIDIA with gigawatt-scale compute capacity on next-generation Vera Rubin platforms Hark is building multimodal systems that remember who you are and what you plan to do. Our work with NVIDIA will support frontier model”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2092989234189869211
Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open Source AI Platform Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion … The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-open-source-model-repository-hugging-face-12-9-billion
Nvidia Is Spending $6 Billion to Build a Powerful U.S. Alternative to Chinese AI – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-is-spending-6-billion-to-build-a-powerful-u-s-alternative-to-chinese-ai-c51c38cc
Nvidia just doubled an already enormous business: Q2 revenue reached $96.2 billion, up 106% YoY and 18% QoQ. -Data Center: $89.0B, +117% YoY, +18% QoQ -GAAP net income: $59.7B, +126% YoY -Operating income: $63.7B, +124% YoY -GAAP EPS: $2.46, +128% YoY -Gross margin: 75%, up 2.6″
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2092737142787084468
NVIDIA’s $108b Quarter | Tomasz Tunguz
https://tomtunguz.com/nvidia-q2-fy27-earnings
Nvidia Discusses Perplexity Investment at $30 Billion-Plus Valuation … The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-discusses-perplexity-investment-30-billion-plus-valuation-considered-tech-licensing-deal
Cohere Parse | Enterprise Intelligence at Scale
https://cohere.com/blog/parse
Google Reportedly in Advanced Talks for $1.5 Billion Deal With AI Coding Startup Mechanize – gHacks Tech News
https://www.ghacks.net/2026/08/26/google-reportedly-in-advanced-talks-for-1-5-billion-deal-with-ai-coding-startup-mechanize/
Exclusive: Hugging Face Annualized Revenue Jumps 50% to $150 Million … The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-hugging-face-annualized-revenue-jumps-50-150-million
Hugging Face Could Be Acquired for $13 Billion Amid AI Boom – Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/hugging-face-could-be-acquired-13-billion-2026-8
Hugging Face explores a $13B sale, nearly triple its 2023 valuation
https://runtimewire.com/article/hugging-face-explores-13-billion-sale
Mistral x HUMAIN | Mistral AI
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-x-humain/
$6B. For 1X ! In this market. That’d be daylight robbery. SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in 1X Technologies at a ~$6B valuation, per The Information. The part that stands out from the report: OpenAI reportedly discussed acquiring 1X outright last year. SoftBank”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2093018111352139857
As OpenAI accelerates its ad ambitions, efforts to establish common measurement standards become more urgent.
https://x.com/Digiday/status/2092228048502333898
The company is hiring a dedicated marketing role aimed at positioning OpenAI as a ‘premium advertising platform for the world’s marketers’.
https://x.com/Digiday/status/2091895894622847457
USA Today Co. is testing ways to reformat content for AI bots in a bid to attract licensing deals and unlock new revenue.
https://x.com/Digiday/status/2092620620617961967
Home humanoids are a decade away. Warehouse humanoids? Bad business case. The real money… Welding ships. This small team from Houston just raised $42M to prove it. Here’s how they’re doing it 🧵”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2091524393717408005
Enterprise-managed auth for MCP connectors is now generally available. For Claude Team and Enterprise admins, authorization is centralized through your identity provider. For users, tools and data are connected automatically, without the need for individual OAuth.”
https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2091953609185657251
Very interesting new paper from NVIDIA. (bookmark it) It takes a closer look at evaluating agent skills. Enterprise teams are starting to leverage shared skill libraries, and the review gate is typically a scanner that checks structure, style, and security. NVIDIA measured”
https://x.com/omarsar0/status/2091869893339812222
The IAB is developing a framework to solve a big challenge in advertising: how to measure and assign credit when ads influence AI agents.
https://x.com/Digiday/status/2091956266306302127
When we convened in February, marketers’ approaches to AI were still nascent. Over the past several months, many iconic brands have moved from early experimentation to strategies and tactics that put AI firmly in the spotlight … and increasingly in the agentic driver’s seat. On”
https://x.com/Digiday/status/2092016643991871858
It is a sign of how fast things have changed that this is what OpenAI announced as the future of enterprise AI agents back in October 2025. They killed Agent Builder in June. (But a surprising number of enterprise products still use this model for agents).”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2092404982012158354
XPeng’s robotics unit raised over $900M at a $6.3B post-money valuation. Largest single-round private raise in China’s embodied AI sector. IDG Capital led. Tencent, Alibaba, and Gaorong joined. Worth understanding the structure. XPeng Inc. is publicly traded, but this money did”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2092133596098359762
OpenAI and Anthropic can take compute which costs them $15b a GW, and turn it into $50b+ of revenue. In order to get the credit to build their datacenters, most neoclouds have already signed long term contracts to supply compute at these $15b/GW rates. However, Meta and SpaceX,”
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2092681058118521169
// Applying Anthropic Primitives at Large Enterprises // Frontier models collapsed the cost of writing custom code. But they did not reduce the cost of reviewing and maintaining it. Each bespoke solution drifts from the next. This means that there is a huge tax that goes into”
https://x.com/dair_ai/status/2091896571730493746
Was Q1 peak Anthropic market share? Seems to be true in startup land. 1 in 3 startups use @Mercury, and startups move quickly to the best models. The Sol model release and codex improving turning the tide back for OpenAI”
https://x.com/immad/status/2090829882070880572
This week on Autonomy Signals presented by @KPMG, @gbrulte and @RobGsix discuss @Tesla’s upcoming Cybercab commercial launch and their self-certification path, @Waymo’s California monopoly and @Softbank’s $200M bet on @GravisRobotics. Episode Chapters 0:00 KPMG Sponsor”
https://x.com/RoadToAutonomy/status/2090863128061820982
I think the discourse is shifting too much towards “AI impacts will take many years to matter,” just as they were too much towards “AI will instantly change the economy” not that long ago.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2091965473558552732
.@Etched raised $1 billion in 26 days, and its valuation jumped from $10.3 billion to $21 billion. But look at the order: – @JaneStreetGroup tested its hardware – Installed the first rack – Then led a $700 million round Jane Street runs tens of thousands of GPUs, builds custom”
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2091697571567714691
AI Strategy, Trends & Insights | Gartner AI Hub
https://www.gartner.com/en/ai
Claudeforce: The #1 AI Meets the #1 CRM | Salesforce
https://www.salesforce.com/claudeforce/
many great ai companies about to be desperate because their growth is limited by compute”
https://x.com/saranormous/status/2090655089077977130
Strategic Predictions for 2026: How AI’s Underestimated Influence Is Reshaping Business
https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/strategic-predictions-for-2026
The AI Bullwhip | Tomasz Tunguz
https://tomtunguz.com/the-ai-cost-stack/
we’ve just passed $1,000,000 in sales for Microduck”
https://x.com/Thom_Wolf/status/2093023975173431449
Will the AI boom continue? Forecasting the trajectory of the AI industry
https://forecastingresearch.substack.com/p/will-the-ai-boom-continue-forecasting
I hear the story about how it took 30 years to gain productivity from electricity a lot in relation to AI (I have even told it myself) But not every technology is that way. Ford went from inventing the assembly line to full deployment in 3 years, cutting car building time by 88%”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2092826292345331773
Dylan argues that even if AI progress continues at apace and generates lots of revenue, the semiconductor industry will not be able to keep up with the labs’ current 3xing+ of compute (in watts) year over year. By the end of the decade, you end up bottlenecked on wafer fab”
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2092990531345228024
Nvidia Climbing the Wall of Worries
https://www.mbi-deepdives.com/nvdafy2q27/
OpenAI Data Center Executive Chris Malone Departs the AI Startup – Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-25/openai-data-center-executive-chris-malone-departs-the-ai-startup
How do you go from jailbreaking your PlayStation to CEO of Canada’s leading LLM provider? You go to the University of Toronto. “When you go to @UofT, you get raised into AI.” – @aidangomez”
https://x.com/cohere/status/2092365111415419205
Introducing Cohere Parse 5. Our newest document parsing model with the strongest price-performance on the market. Ideal for high-volume enterprise work. Get high-quality parsing accuracy while keeping per-page prices at an industry low.”
https://x.com/cohere/status/2092962399754055863
Creator marketing is racing toward AI ad-stack automation, but risks turning trust into inventory.
https://x.com/Digiday/status/2092922606319984660
Open Source Growth Boosts Together AI, Hugging Face … The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/open-source-growth-boosts-together-ai-hugging-face
Scoop: HuggingFace has M&A interest and they could get bought for $13B…or higher!”
https://x.com/Katie_Roof/status/2091602285701034425?s=20
India’s TCS to buy Porsche’s IT unit, bags 5-year deal worth $1.46 billion | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-tcs-buy-porsches-it-unit-373-million-2026-08-24/
What Z.ai’s Ox Alpha reveals about AI economics | The Deep View
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/what-z-ai-s-ox-alpha-reveals-about-ai-economics
AI power users are showing up outside tech. The fastest-growing Codex adopters since February: Legal: 108x Sales: 41x Recruiting: 41x Marketing: 26x Healthcare: 24x Charts of the Week:
https://x.com/a16z/status/2091623289869508979
Meta hires OpenAI veteran Luke Metz
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/24/meta-hires-openai-luke-metz
GPT 5.6 Discounts & Jevons Paradox … OpenRouter Blog
https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/gpt-5-6-discounts-jevons-paradox/
If you’re building with GPT-5.6 Sol, we’re reducing API prices by over 20% for the next 3 months as we make it more efficient to run, while the credits you buy will go further in Codex on token-based plans and the usage included in your subscription stays the same.”
https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2090888116014137718
Introducing ChatGPT Business Premium Seats The new $100 Premium seat is a game changer for small businesses and startups… giving lean teams better tools, faster workflows, and capabilities once reserved for big companies. A flexible plan that scales with your team’s ambition.”
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2092335305366069305
Starting today OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol API pricing by 20% for input and 33% for output. New pricing: $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, available at least through November 21. Given the timing, it is clear that OpenAI is dealing another blow to”
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2091969946846708120
“89% of the humanoid community has done this.” For years, researchers had to fight for every dollar they could get to work on humanoids. Then the market changed… the hype came. Suddenly, you could put together a pitch deck, talk about humanoids and embodied AI, and raise”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2092522687239500271
Humanoid startup co-founders, behind the scenes”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2091305570162880988
I still remember back when I was working at my first robotics startup and we built a station to test our system 24/7. The wild part about developing hardware at that speed was that after just a few weeks of continuous testing, the product had already evolved so fast that the”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2091071892694110333
When code is abundant
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/when-code-is-abundant/
Who Eats Memory Costs? – StreetSignal
https://streetsignal.substack.com/p/who-eats-memory-costs-2a1
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