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who knew the perfect meme for the gilded 2020s would be an AI-generated Mortal Kombat spoof of Industrial Revolution Robber Baron Billionaires beating each other silly with their wealth…

Here’s what happened in AI today:

😺 Anthropic officially overtook OpenAI in business adoption, per Ramp's latest spending data.
📰 Palo Alto warned AI-driven cyberattacks are already becoming the new normal.
📰 Apple is reportedly building AI agent support directly into the App Store.
🍪 Notion launched a developer platform that lets AI agents work inside your workspace.

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😺 Anthropic Just Passed OpenAI in the One Stat That Actually Matters

A year ago, OpenAI was "pulling well ahead of rivals" in the enterprise race. Per Ramp's May 2025 AI Index (Ramp is an expense management platform that tracks actual corporate credit card spend), OpenAI had 32% of U.S. business adoption. Anthropic? A distant 8%.

That gap is now gone.

Ramp's May 2026 AI Index shows Anthropic at 34.4% of business adoption, crossing OpenAI (now at 32.3%) for the first time ever. All of these came from purchase data from thousands of actual companies.

Here's what happened:

In May 2025, OpenAI had 32% business adoption; Anthropic had 8%. The gap looked insurmountable.
By March 2026, Axios reported Anthropic was capturing 73% of first-time AI business buyers and Anthropic's annualized revenue had hit $19B vs. OpenAI's $25B, with Anthropic accelerating faster.
The engine behind the reversal: Claude Code, Anthropic's autonomous coding tool, which reached $2.5B in annualized revenue by February 2026 alone.
As of April 2026: Anthropic crossed $30B annualized revenue; OpenAI sits at roughly $24B.

OpenAI's response has been swift. Last week, the company launched a $4B "Deployment Company" with 19 private equity and consulting partners specifically to fight back, embedding AI engineers inside enterprises to accelerate Codex adoption. Their chief revenue officer told employees in a memo, per Axios: "the market is as competitive as I have ever seen it."

Why this matters: Enterprise contracts are stickier than consumer downloads. They expand over time, renew annually, and get embedded into company infrastructure. When a company approves Claude as a budget line item, switching requires a procurement cycle, not just deleting an app. Anthropic winning here is a different kind of win than getting good press.

Our take: The interesting thing about Ramp's data is that Ramp's own economist, Ara Kharazian, published the adoption numbers alongside a bearish note on Anthropic — arguing that Claude is incentivized to push users toward pricier models even when cheaper ones would do. Fair criticism. But "they upsell too well" is a weird thing to complain about when you're losing market share. Both companies are racing toward IPOs that could come as soon as this fall. This data point just changed who's negotiating from a position of strength.

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🎓 AI Skill of the Day: Stop Saving Prompts in Docs. Use Claude Skills Instead

If you've been copy-pasting your best prompts from a Google Doc every time you need them, YouTube creator Alex Pereira just showed a better way.

Claude has a feature called Skills — reusable instruction sets you install once and trigger with a single slash command, in any chat. Think of it like saving a prompt permanently to Claude's brain. Alex built six of them to run his entire content workflow: hook generator, image creator, video generator, thumbnail builder, face lock (for consistent face generation), and caption writer — all fired with one word.

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In Claude, click Customize → the + button → Create Skill
Structure it in three parts: (1) a description + when Claude should trigger it, (2) your instructions, (3) examples of good output
Save it — then type /[skill name] in any chat to activate

Alex's rule for when to bother: the task has to be recurring, structured, and have a consistent output format. Passes all three? Build it. Passes one or two? Keep it as a saved prompt.

When I type /[skill name], do the following:

Instructions: [What you want Claude to do]
Format: [Output shape — e.g. 10 hooks, numbered list, under 15 words each]
Voice rules: [Any style/tone requirements]
Examples of good output: [Paste 2-3 examples]

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🍪 Treats to Try

Notion launched a full developer platform (v3.5) that lets you (and your AI coding agents) sync any data source and build custom agent tools, all hosted on Notion's infrastructure. You can also invite Claude, Codex, or your own agents directly into your workspace as collaborators.
Pipali is an open-source coworker that lives on your computer and handles real work — research, drafting documents, browser tasks, and recurring errands — with Routines you set once and it runs on a schedule, plus integrations with Slack, Linear, and GitHub via MCP —free to try.
My AI Front Desk gives your small business a 24/7 receptionist that answers every call, fields questions, and books appointments directly into your calendar, even after hours —free to try.
Genpire turns a product sketch or text description into a factory-ready tech pack in minutes — complete with technical drawings, material specs, and measurements — then connects you to vetted suppliers for quotes and production.
CraftBot is a self-hosted personal assistant that runs 24/7 on your own machine, proactively managing tasks like organizing your Google Drive, tracking GitHub issues into Notion, and sourcing leads — you set the goals, it works in the background —free to try.
Coddo gives Claude Code a visual interface — a Kanban board where each card is a coding task, with automatic Git branch creation and progress tracking, so you stay at the task level instead of managing a mess of terminal windows —free to try (macOS only for now).
Pika lets you give your Claude a custom face, name, and personality via MCP, then set it loose to handle tasks and create content as a living extension of you.

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📰 Around the Horn

Palo Alto Networks warned that AI-driven cyberattacks are already becoming the new norm, citing models like Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber as raising the stakes for every security team; Google separately said it stopped a recent attempt to use AI for a mass exploitation event.
The UK's AI Safety Institute published research showing autonomous AI cyber capability has been doubling roughly every 4.7 months — and the most recent frontier models are outpacing even that accelerating trend.
Apple is reportedly building AI agent support into the App Store, with a WWDC announcement expected; it would mean AI agents — not just apps — could eventually be found, downloaded, and run directly from your iPhone.
Google DeepMind introduced "AI Pointer," a concept that turns the traditional mouse cursor into a context-aware AI collaborator that understands what's on your screen and can act on it, starting with Chrome.
Baidu's CEO proposed "Daily Active Agents" (DAA) as the defining metric for the AI era — the equivalent of Daily Active Users for the agent world — and predicted global DAA could eventually surpass 10 billion

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