Weekly Brief
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Jun 16, 2026
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8 min read
Tokenmaxxing is over. AI costs are now a CFO problem - and the consultancies that built governance first are about to look very smart.
May 22, 2026
KPMG deploys Claude to 276,000 staff, PwC follows within the week - and the window for mid-market consultancies to differentiate is now measured in months, not years.
Apr 30, 2026
OpenAI ships GPT-5.5 in six weeks, Google locks in $40 billion, and the consultancies pulling ahead aren't winning on model choice - they're winning on workflow design.
AI Agents
Apr 17, 2026
10 min read
The infrastructure gap is the real bottleneck - and Anthropic just made it someone else's problem.
Automation & Workflows
Apr 3, 2026
12 min read
Claude Cowork enters enterprise via Microsoft, Anthropic leaks its most powerful model yet, and the agentic sales ops playbook is now available to any consultancy with a CRM and £100 a month.
Mar 30, 2026
13 min read
OpenClaw proves the model isn't the moat. The firms winning in 2026 are the ones that have operationalised the workflow layer.
Mar 23, 2026
NemoClaw ships, IBM spends $11B on data, Anthropic backs consultancies with $100M — the infrastructure conversation is no longer theoretical.
AI Tools & Models
Mar 12, 2026
14 min read
Most AI tools are trained to be helpful. The problem is that helpfulness and honesty are not the same thing — and a new independent benchmark this week makes that gap impossible to ignore.
Feb 23, 2026
15 min read
OpenCode hits 95K stars, Ollama enables local execution—but the real choice isn't which tool is "better", it's whether you've done the maths on what you actually need.
AI Strategy
Jan 7, 2026
Anthropic ships open standard, consultancies deploy to 350K staff—security teams discover the gap.
Dec 30, 2025
6 min read
Happy New Year From The AiGentic Lab Team
Dec 19, 2025
MCP standardises agent integration, Microsoft ships vertical workflows — but the real bottleneck isn't connectors, it's the discipline to calculate before you automate.
Dec 12, 2025
Copilot launches, Agentforce explodes, BI agents arrive — and SMEs finally get enterprise-grade automation.
Dec 5, 2025
DeepSeek goes open, Gemini Deep Think lands, Trainium3 ships - and sovereign AI becomes a real option.
