Welcome to AI Unraveled (December 09, 2025): Your daily strategic briefing on the business impact of AI.

1. OpenAI’s ‘State of Enterprise AI’ Report OpenAI released insights from over 1 million workplace accounts, revealing a massive "productivity gap."

• The Gains: 75% of workers say AI improved speed/quality; another 75% can now handle tasks they previously couldn't (e.g., marketers writing SQL).
• Time Saved: Average users save 40–60 mins/day. Power users save 10+ hours/week.
• Top Performers: The top 5% of users send 6x more messages than the median; top coders show a 17x volume difference.

2. Google Returns to Smart Glasses (2026) Google is re-entering the wearables market to challenge Meta.

• Partners: Hardware by Samsung; design by Warby Parker (backed by a $150M deal) and Gentle Monster.
• The Tech: Two styles—audio-only (hands-free Gemini) and display versions (in-lens nav/translation). Processing offloads to smartphones to keep frames light.

3. Trump’s "Chip Tax": H200 Sales to China President Trump approved Nvidia to ship high-grade H200 chips to China, with a catch: the US government takes a 25% cut.

• The Shift: This reverses previous bans on high-end exports.
• Expansion: Trump claims Xi Jinping reacted positively; the deal may extend to AMD and Intel.

4. Anthropic brings Claude Code to Slack Anthropic launched a beta integration turning Slack into a coding workflow.

• How it works: Tag @Claude in a thread. It analyzes context (bug reports), selects the right repo, writes code, and posts pull requests—all without leaving Slack.

5. Regulatory Wars: EU vs. Google & Trump vs. States

• EU Probe: The EU is investigating if Google abuses dominance by scraping publisher content for AI without paying, forcing an "all-or-nothing" choice on creators.
• US Preemption: Trump plans a "one rule" executive order to kill state-level AI laws (like California's), arguing 50 different rulebooks would "destroy AI in its infancy."

6. Market Watch: Bubbles & Ads

• Valuations: 2-month-old startup Unconventional AI raised $475M at a $4.5B valuation (121x the median seed). Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines hit $12B pre-product.
• Ads: Google denies reports of imminent ads in Gemini, but pressure to monetize the massive AI infrastructure spend is rising.

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