🔥 AI’s economics
Sept. 16, 2025 | Unpacking its role in business and global markets.
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+ The news of this week 🗞️ “Oracle's recent earnings report, despite narrowly missing revenue and earnings per share forecasts, sent shockwaves through the market, causing its stock to surge 36% in a single day—its biggest one-day jump since 1992. The stunning reaction was not due to current results but to an unprecedented series of forward-looking projections that repositioned the company as a central player in the AI infrastructure boom.” Continue reading here.
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The Anthropic Economic Index shows specific uses of its AI, Claude, in different regions, such as for travel planning in Hawaii and scientific research in Massachusetts. Meanwhile, a Goldman Sachs banker used an AI assistant to overcome writer's block, noting the risk of becoming overly reliant on the technology.
In the audio content space, a new startup, Inception Point AI, plans to use AI to produce 5,000 podcasts with a low cost per episode, with its founder pushing back on the term "AI slop." This comes as professor Ethan Mollick warns that SaaS vendors' incentive to use cheap models can limit AI’s potential.
Other key developments include OpenAI backing an AI-made animated film set to debut at Cannes, Googlereleasing an open-weight model for data protection, and Meta launching a new model for lightweight reasoning. A Chinese regulator has also made a preliminary finding that Nvidia violated the country’s antitrust law.
🦾 AI daily pulse
Anthropic Economic Index: Tracking AI's role in the US and global economy
Travel planning in Hawaii, scientific research in Massachusetts, and building web applications in India. On the face of it, these three activities share very little in common. But it turns out that they’re the particular uses of Claude that are some of the most overrepresented in each of these places. [LINK]
Goldman Sachs bankers explore limits of AI: ‘The risk is over-reliance’
When Goldman Sachs partner Kerry Blum was wrestling with how to communicate a new project to staff, she found a quick solution. “Candidly I was having a bit of writer’s block . . . While I could have spent time iterating on the framing of the proposal on my own, I decided to brainstorm with the AI assistant.”. [LINK]5,000 podcasts. 3,000 episodes a week. $1 cost per episode — Behind an AI start up’s plan
Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites." [LINK]
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⚡️ Top trends
“One problem with using SaaS vendors with their own AI solutions is their incentives: it saves costs if they use cheap models, as little reasoning as possible & stick with outdated prompting & RAG strategies rather than updating them as AI improves.”— Ethan Mollick [LINK]
OpenAI backs AI-made animated feature film
Film, called ‘Critterz,’ aims to debut at Cannes Film Festival and will leverage startup’s AI tools and resources. [LINK]
💻 Top techies
Google introduces VaultGemma, an open-weight model ensuring data protection [LINK]
Meta releases MobileLLM-R1 on Hugging Face for lightweight reasoning tasks [LINK]
🔮 What else
China: Nvidia broke antitrust laws
A Chinese regulator has found Nvidia violated the country’s antitrust law, in a preliminary finding against the world’s most valuable chipmaker. [LINK]Why venture capitalists are suddenly terrified of AI — Kevin Rose
