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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab ships its first model with 0.4-second interaction latency, while Cerebras prices the year's biggest IPO at up to $4.8 billion. Plus: Gemini Omni leaks ahead of Google I/O, DeepMind reimagines the mouse cursor, and why your AI bill is quietly growing.

Anthropic is raising at a $900 billion valuation while a new survey finds only 23% of enterprises see real ROI from AI agents. Today we cover the EU AI Act Omnibus deal, Canada's widening regulatory gap, AI-powered cyberattacks, and why the delivery gap is the biggest opportunity in enterprise AI.

EU Reaches Deal to Simplify AI Act — Bans Nudification Apps, Locks August 2 Deadline — The European Parliament and Council finalized the Omnibus VII simplification package yesterday, keeping the August 2, 2026 high-risk compliance deadline intact while adding a ban on AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery and shortening the AI-generated content transparency grace period to just three.

OpenAI ships production-ready voice agents with GPT-5-class reasoning, while Anthropic reveals a breakthrough that lets you read what Claude is actually thinking. We also unpack why 97% of enterprises deployed AI agents but only 23% see real returns, plus Connecticut's sweeping new AI law and NVIDIA outsourcing its own compute.

Anthropic ships 10 prebuilt finance agents with live data feeds from FactSet and S&P Capital IQ, while GPT-5.5 Instant cuts hallucinations by 52%. Plus: Stanford's AI Index shows agent success jumping to 77%, Cerebras files for a $27B IPO, and an Oxford study finds making AI kinder makes it wrong.

Anthropic and OpenAI both launched billion-dollar implementation ventures on the same day, signaling that AI delivery is now the real battleground. This episode also covers GPT-5.5 hitting AWS Bedrock, NVIDIA's 10,000-employee Codex rollout, Canada's regulatory vacuum, and what Stanford's AI Index says about the agentic workforce shift.

Anthropic eyes a $900B valuation while OpenAI launches a PE-backed deployment company to industrialize enterprise AI adoption. Plus: 75% of CEOs admit their AI strategy is performative, the Pentagon blacklists Anthropic over safety guardrails, and the EU AI Act enforcement deadline is 89 days away.

The Pentagon awards classified AI contracts to eight vendors while excluding Anthropic over ethical red lines, and Musk admits under oath that xAI trained on OpenAI models. Plus: Google's $40B Anthropic paradox, OpenAI's AWS pivot, $600B in hyperscaler CapEx, and the EU AI Act countdown.

OpenAI breaks Azure exclusivity and lands on AWS Bedrock with managed agents, while Google starts selling TPUs off-cloud. Plus: Stanford reports agentic AI task success jumped from 20% to 77%, AWS launches its own Copilot competitor, and the enterprise cloud-AI landscape gets redrawn overnight.

Meta cuts 8,000 jobs and reorganizes around AI pods while spending over $115 billion on AI infrastructure. Today's briefing also covers OpenAI breaking Microsoft exclusivity to land on AWS, a rogue Claude agent wiping a production database, and the EU AI Act deadline holding firm.