AI DUNN Right Weekly — Issue #33
- May 11
- 8 min read
Practical AI insights for business growth
Hey AI Innovators! 👋
This week, AI didn't just make headlines. It showed up at the office door. OpenAI and Anthropic both announced plans to send their engineers inside your business on the same day. And they weren't the only ones moving fast.
Here's what you need to know:
OpenAI and Anthropic both launched consulting arms targeting your industry — same day
Elon Musk and Anthropic are now compute partners (yes, really)
Voice AI just leveled up — ChatGPT can now reason and act while you talk
GPT-5.5 Instant quietly became your new ChatGPT default
Perplexity's new Mac agent can now operate your actual computer for you
Read time: 7 minutes
BIG STORY
They're Not Selling You Software Anymore. They're Moving In.
On Monday, May 5th, something remarkable happened. OpenAI and Anthropic both announced new consulting joint ventures on the same day.
Not a coincidence. This is a race. And the finish line is your industry.
Here's what's actually happening:
Anthropic announced a $1.5 billion joint venture backed by Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman
OpenAI fired back with something they're literally calling The Deployment Company — a $10 billion venture with 19 investors including Bain, BCG, McKinsey, Accenture, and Capgemini
Both ventures have the same mission: send AI engineers inside real businesses, map how work actually gets done, and rebuild those workflows around AI
They're not handing you an API key and wishing you luck. They are walking through the door.
The first targets:
Healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and real estate
Fortune 500 and PE-owned companies
Mid-market is next. Then small business.
There's a real parallel here to how Palantir built its empire. They embedded themselves inside government and enterprise clients so deeply that ripping them out would mean dismantling the whole operation. Palantir is now worth $300 billion+. That is the playbook OpenAI and Anthropic are running right now.
And here's the part worth paying attention to. Look at who's funding it. Blackstone ($1.3T in assets). Goldman Sachs ($3.7T in assets). These institutions think they're running the AI strategy. But financial analysis, due diligence, deal modelling, research... all of that is exactly what AI already does well. The investors are also on the list.
One analyst mapped out the stages this week:
Stage 1: Coding (largely done)
Stage 2: Content and marketing (well underway)
Stage 3: Consulting and knowledge work (that's right now)
Stage 4: Finance, law, accounting (roughly 2 to 3 years out)
My take: This is the week that the abstract "AI will change jobs" conversation became very concrete. These ventures are targeting Fortune 500 first. That means business owners like you and me have a real window right now to become the AI expert in your niche before the big labs get there. The opportunity isn't just surviving this wave. It's riding it.
WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK
Elon Musk Is Now Renting His Supercomputer to Anthropic
Just months ago, Elon Musk was posting on X that Anthropic "hates Western Civilization." This week, he handed them his entire Colossus 1 supercomputer cluster in Memphis to lease:
220,000+ Nvidia GPUs
300+ megawatts of power
SpaceXAI (apparently the new name for the compute arm) is positioning itself as a landlord for rival AI labs
The logic?
Enemy of my enemy.
By helping Anthropic compete, Musk weakens OpenAI, the company he's actively suing.
The business impact for Claude users is immediate:
Usage caps are doubling across paid tiers
Peak-hour restrictions are gone
Anthropic also committed to a separate $200B Google Cloud deal over five years
Claude's availability problems are getting fixed fast.
Voice AI Just Got a Brain Transplant
OpenAI launched three new voice models in its developer API this week:
GPT-Realtime-2: runs on GPT-5-level reasoning, handles complex requests and multiple tools at once while talking. Jumped from 81.4% to 96.6% accuracy on a key audio reasoning benchmark.
GPT-Realtime-Translate: covers 70 input languages
GPT-Realtime-Whisper: captures speech in real time, not after the call is done
Zillow, Priceline, and Deutsche Telekom are already building on it. Think AI customer service that doesn't sound robotic. Think real-time multilingual meetings. The turn-based era of voice AI is ending.
Your ChatGPT Quietly Changed This Week
OpenAI swapped the default model to GPT-5.5 Instant for all users, without a big announcement. What's new:
52.5% fewer false claims
Better memory
More concise, personalized responses
The overly formal tone and "I cannot assist with that" energy should be dialing back
You're getting a better model without paying more or doing anything. Worth testing your regular prompts again to see what's changed.
Google Launches an AI Health Coach — and It's Impressive
Google opened its AI health coach to the public this week, integrating Fitbit into a new Google Health platform powered by Gemini.
The coach can:
Build weekly workout routines
Read your uploaded medical records
Identify what you ate from a phone photo
They also launched a $99 screenless tracker called the Fitbit Air — just 12 grams, with heart rate, oxygen, and temperature sensors that feed directly to the AI coach. Apple Watch and Garmin users get access later this year.
TOOL OF THE WEEK
Perplexity Personal Computer for Mac
This one quietly launched this week and deserves your attention. Perplexity rolled out its Personal Computer feature to all Mac users — and it's a meaningful jump beyond what most AI tools can do.
Most AI tools work with what you type or paste into them. Perplexity Personal Computer operates on your actual Mac:
Opens applications and navigates files
Browses through its Comet browser
Takes agentic action across your local computer environment
Combines local file knowledge with Perplexity's live web search in one workflow
What does that look like in practice?
Research a topic and pull sources from both the web and your own saved files at the same time
Draft a document using context from files already on your desktop
Navigate multiple apps in sequence to complete a multi-step task
Who is this for? Business owners who juggle a lot of local files — proposals, client docs, templates, research — alongside web research. If you've ever wished you could give AI access to your full working context instead of copying and pasting pieces of it, this is worth trying.
It's free with a Perplexity account on Mac. Give it a shot this week.
QUICK HITS WORTH YOUR TIME
The Pentagon signed AI deals with 8 major tech companies — including Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI — to deploy their models inside classified military networks. One notable absentee: Anthropic. The DoD gave Google broad rights to use Gemini for national security purposes, adjustable safety settings included. This came one day after 600 Google employees asked Sundar Pichai not to sign.
Coinbase is cutting 700 employees — 14% of its workforce — as CEO Brian Armstrong said the company is shifting to AI-native teams and agent-driven workflows. This is one of the most direct public statements from a major company about replacing headcount with AI. It won't be the last.
Anthropic published plans for AI that builds itself. Its newly formed research institute, TAI, outlined a formal agenda covering self-improving AI models, Cold War-style hotlines between labs and governments, and "fire drill" exercises for sudden capability surges. The phrase "intelligence explosion" appeared in their official document. That's a significant signal worth paying attention to.
Meta now lets you manage ad campaigns directly from Claude and ChatGPT. Create, manage, and analyze campaigns through natural language inside the AI tools you're already using — without opening Meta Ads Manager. For anyone running Facebook or Instagram ads, this is a workflow worth exploring immediately.
Spotify launched Personal Podcasts — an AI feature that turns your own notes, briefings, or class materials into a personal podcast inside your Spotify library. Imagine turning your weekly business notes into an audio summary you can listen to on a walk. The intersection of AI and audio content is moving fast.
PROMPT OF THE WEEK
This week's theme is hard to ignore: AI is moving into consulting and knowledge work. Before the big labs get to your industry, you can use AI to audit your own business first — and spot exactly where you're vulnerable (and where the opportunity lives).
Act as a strategic business consultant who specializes in AI adoption. I'm going to describe my business and I want you to do three things:
1. Identify the top 3 tasks or workflows in my business that AI could automate or dramatically speed up RIGHT NOW with current tools.
2. Flag any areas of my business where a competitor using AI would have a significant advantage over me if I'm not doing the same.
3. Give me one "quick win" I can implement this week — a specific AI tool or prompt — that addresses my biggest time drain.
Here's my business:
[DESCRIBE YOUR BUSINESS: what you do, your main services, how you spend most of your time, and what feels like the biggest bottleneck right now]
Be direct and specific. Skip the generic advice. I want recommendations I can actually act on.Why this works: Most AI audits are too vague to be useful. This prompt forces specificity by asking for ranked priorities, competitive risk, and a concrete first step — all in one conversation. Run it with Claude or ChatGPT and you'll likely surface something you hadn't considered.
MY TAKE
I'll be honest....this was a heavy week to process.
When two of the most powerful AI companies in the world announce plans to send their engineers directly into businesses on the same day, that's not noise. That's a signal. The era of "we'll figure out AI eventually" is closing fast.
But here's what I keep coming back to: they're going to the Fortune 500 first. The big banks, the PE firms, the hospital networks. That means you and I — the small business owners, the consultants, the service providers.
We still have a window. A real one.
Right now, there is massive demand from small and mid-sized businesses for someone who actually understands AI AND understands their industry. That person barely exists in most niches. Which means it could be you.
I know that can feel overwhelming. But look at what you already know just from reading this newsletter every week:
You understand tools most business owners have never touched
You know what's changing and why
That knowledge is genuinely valuable
And the window to use it won't stay open forever.
So this week, my challenge to you:
Run that Prompt of the Week on your own business. See what comes back. You might be surprised what you find.
ONE MORE THING
I'm speaking at the AI Clarity Summit and I'd love for you to join me.
The AI Clarity Summit is a free online event designed specifically for beginners ....people who have maybe opened ChatGPT and thought, "Now what?"
My session is called
"Let's Open ChatGPT Together: A Beginner's First Hands-On Walkthrough" a
nd that's exactly what it will be.
No tech speak.
No overwhelm.
Just a calm, practical look at how to actually start using it in real life.
I'll be walking through:
What you see when you first open ChatGPT
One simple thing a beginner can type to get a quick win right away
A practical everyday example, live on screen
What to do when the answer isn't quite right
What to never put into ChatGPT
The summit features 28 speakers covering everything from AI for families to AI for healthcare to NotebookLM demos. Something for everyone who wants to feel less overwhelmed and more confident with AI.
Registration opens May 16th.
More details coming your way soon, including your personal link to sign up.
See you next week.
Jackie
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