$165 billion flooded into AI in 6 months. Your hotel is still using it to write emails. Here's why 90% of hospitality and beauty companies are already dead—they just don't know it yet.

Breaking down:

• Ewaa Hotels (57 properties): 340% increase in direct bookings in 90 days | Saved $180,000/year in OTA commissions
• Alma's AI skincare: 12 million personalized formulations | Under 60 seconds per patient | Medical-grade precision
• L'Oréal's pivot: Marketing content from weeks to minutes | Product development from 18 months to 6
• The Perplexity + Claude stack I used: Transformed guest experience from generic to hyperpersonalized
• Fast cosmetics meets fast fashion: Why speed now beats perfection (95% accuracy at 100x speed wins)

Plus: Why I'm hosting an in-person AI Mastermind in St. Gallen/Liechtenstein (September 2025) for executives who refuse to become fossils. The 90-day transformation blueprint that turned dying hotels into OTA killers.

2,700 Messages Stolen, $3 Billion Voluntarily Paid, 97% Costs Saved: The 3 Events This Week Nobody's Connecting.

Breakdown:

• OpenAI "Rug Pull": 2,900→200 reasoning messages/week | Reddit users calculate: 2,700 messages worth millions stolen
• Mohamed Dhaouafi (28, Tunisia): Builds AI prosthetics for $3K vs. Ottobock's $100K | Obama Foundation Leader, MIT Innovator under 35
• Nvidia's H20 Deal: $23B China revenue, 15% ($3B) voluntarily to U.S. government | CEO Jensen Huang personally negotiated with Trump
• Technical University Kampala: Students build for $20 API keys what German corporations spend millions on
• Future math: 15-person company makes $500M, replaces 5,000 jobs | At 90% tax still keeps $3M/employee

Plus: Why you MUST switch from ChatGPT to Claude/Perplexity/Grok NOW (comparison table + migration guide).

The most expensive email assistant in corporate history: How companies are torching $2M/year on Copilot while competitors save $46M.

Breaking down:

• 6,000-person enterprise: $180,000/month for Copilot | Actual usage: Writing emails
• Vodafone's 68,000 employees: 3 hours saved/week | Annual value: 10 million hours
• Newman's Own marketing manager: 1→3 campaigns/month with same headcount
• Microsoft's 12 different "Copilot" products: 90% of users don't know the difference

Plus: The 4 workflows that transform Copilot from spell-checker to competitive advantage (30-day implementation plan included).

The most expensive 30 minutes in tech history: How Tesla torched $1.5 billion while SoftBank announced a $500 billion company that doesn't exist.

Breaking down:

• Morgan Stanley's $500B Dojo valuation to shutdown in 24 months (investor losses unreported)
• D1 chip yield rate: <10% | Translation: 9 out of 10 chips straight to trash ($100M+ waste)
• SoftBank's actual cash: $24B | Promised Stargate investment: $100B (Oracle CEO: "entity never formed")
• 2 Months from Musk's "spectacular" tweet to complete shutdown (August 7, 2025)
• 20 Tesla engineers flee to DensityAI, immediately raise $200M (vs Tesla's $1.5B failure)

Plus: The data center SoftBank is showing investors that they don't actually own (Crusoe Energy confirms).

While you're reading about AGI breakthroughs, the companies actually shipping are building boring infrastructure that prints money.

The most uncomfortable 20 minutes in pharma this year: How GenAI achieves 90% drug discovery success while you're at 0.01%.

Verified facts from yesterday's Nature paper and last week's industry announcements.

Breaking down:

• 8 successful cancer drug candidates from 9 attempts (published yesterday, peer-reviewed)
• Traditional Phase 2 success: 28-40% | AI-enhanced: 89% (CDK2 target Pfizer couldn't crack)
• 1 billion molecular evaluations per week vs your 1,000 per year
• "Novel scaffolds": How AI generates entirely new patent families (20-year monopolies)
• The companies already shipping: Atomwise, BenevolentAI, Recursion (with Phase 2 proof)
• Why "it's not our core competency" is a death sentence for your pipeline

Plus: The 6-month committee meeting that costs 500 cancer patients their lives.

Every day you "observe further" is a day your competitors get closer to making you obsolete.

Spontaneous episode: Malcolm's kids storm the studio and show how naturally they switch between ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok. Meanwhile: The shocking realization of a billion-dollar company CEO about AI.

What to expect:

• Live demo: How kids use AI for crystal-growing experiments
• The most important prompting tip from a 7-year-old ("Always say how old you are!")
• Why AI hallucinations aren't a bug, but a feature

Bonus content: Malcolm unfiltered, no agenda, but with two elementary school AI experts! 🚀

77 minutes of OpenAI theater analyzed and GPT-5 tested live. The unfiltered truth about the "PhD-level expert" model.

What actually matters:

• 700 million weekly ChatGPT users get GPT-5 FREE
• Hallucinations massively reduced (the real game-changer)
• Cursor makes GPT-5 the new golden standard (70% of Anthropic's traffic!)
• Healthcare revolution: From biopsy emails to informed decisions
• Base prompts were "absolutely terrible" - still perfect results
• My test: Financial analysis dashboard completed in 60 minutes

The wake-up call: Don't evaluate. ADOPT. Today.

Your daily 10-minute executive brief on AI developments that actually matter for your business.

No surface-level news - just the metrics, contracts, and strategies that will impact your P&L tomorrow.

We cover:

• OpenAI's $500B valuation and the $10M minimum consulting deals (with actual enterprise examples)
• Google's $1B education fund targeting 100+ universities (and why it's a talent monopoly play)
• The shadow AI epidemic costing $670K per breach (93% of your employees are already doing it)
• US chip tracking proposals that fundamentally change AI infrastructure
• Walmart's consolidation from 45 AI tools to 4 (with the exact cost savings)

Real companies. Real numbers. Real implications for your business model. Because in the AI economy, the details determine who survives.

Perfect for your morning commute or between meetings. The kind of intelligence brief that saves companies.

Your daily 10-minute executive brief on AI developments that actually matter for your business.

My friend Mantas said it best: "I love the deep dives, but what happened YESTERDAY?" This episode is the answer - a rapid-fire brief on the four AI stories from this week that will directly impact your customers, your business model, and your competitive position.

We cover:

• OpenAI's shocking open-source pivot (and what it means when AI becomes free)
• Google's Genie 3 and the death of "seeing is believing"
• Clay's massive valuation and the AI sales revolution
• The employment shift that's changing your customer demographics

No theory. No speculation. Just what happened, what it means for your customers, and what you should do about it.

Perfect for your morning commute or between meetings. Because in the AI economy, yesterday's news shapes tomorrow's strategy.

In this explosive episode of the AI Cookbook, Malcolm Werchota breaks down two seismic events that shook the AI world on August 1st, 2025. First, Anthropic locks out OpenAI from its Claude API after discovering OpenAI engineers were secretly using Claude Code to develop GPT-5 - a direct violation of terms of service. Second, Google drops MLE-STAR, an open-source AI system that can replace $200k/year Machine Learning Engineers for just $10k - a 95% cost reduction.

Malcolm exposes how European companies are dangerously behind in AI adoption (40% vs 60% in the US) and provides a urgent, actionable roadmap for businesses to leverage these technologies NOW. With his signature blend of technical insight and brutal honesty, he warns that companies who don't act within the next 6 months will be "not struggling, not difficult - DEAD."

Key Topics Covered:

• The Anthropic vs OpenAI "AI War" and what it means for API dependencies
• Why Claude 4 outperforms GPT-4 by 18% in coding tasks
• MLE-STAR: Google's game-changing ML automation tool (63.6% Kaggle medal rate vs 25.8% for humans)
• Real-world case studies: Stuttgart manufacturer saves 95% on predictive maintenance
• The "Small Company Advantage" - why NOW is the time for mid-market disruption
• Concrete 5-day action plan for immediate AI implementation

Key Takeaways:

1. Never build your core business on a competitor's API
2. MLE-STAR can replace entire ML teams at 95% lower cost
3. European companies using AI <10x daily will be obsolete in 2 years
4. The tools for AI revolution are FREE and available NOW
5. Success requires execution, not planning - "The future belongs to those with the biggest balls to DO IT!"

Resources Mentioned:

• MLE-STAR (Open Source on GitHub)
• Claude Code API
• Multi-model strategy implementation
• LinkedIn: Connect with Malcolm for results sharing