The Weekend Notebook #2634 – The Price of Intelligence
OpenAI cuts prices while Nvidia hikes them, Stripe bets big on OpenRouter, India’s IT sector shifts to outcome-based pricing, and two data breaches show the human element is still the weakest link.
The Weekend Notebook #2633 – The numbers are in, now what?
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com | 16 August 2026 These are the main stories which caught my eye this week. Anthropic posted over $11.5 billion in Q2 revenue, a 14-fold increase year-on-year and its first profitable quarter. OpenAI confirmed its enterprise revenue has overtaken consumer, hitting a $40 billion annualised run rate with business customers…
The Weekend Notebook #2632 – Jobs, Jailbreaks and the Future of Money
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com | 9 August 2026 A different kind of week. Less about model releases, more about consequence. What happens to real workers in India, Africa, and Singapore when AI arrives at scale? What happens when AI models breach real systems during tests designed to keep them contained? And what happens to…
The Weekend Notebook #2631 – Cheaper, Unsafe and Undisciplined
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com | 2 August 2026 Three things defined this week. Chinese AI got cheaper and more capable.. The containment problem became impossible to ignore after Anthropic’s own models breached three real companies. And the markets made clear they have stopped rewarding AI ambition and started rewarding AI discipline. Each one matters…
The Weekend Notebook #2630 – Open, Escaped and Unaffordable
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com | 27 July 2026 Three things happened this week that I believe will be studied for years. The AI industry formally split over whether intelligence should be open or closed. An autonomous AI agent escaped its testing environment, breached another company, and left notes for its future self on how…
The Weekend Notebook #2629 – The Map has Changed
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com | 20 July 2026 Three things shifted this week that I think deserve more attention than they got. A Chinese model topped the global benchmark leaderboard. AI agents quietly became the most commercially effective shopper in retail. And the question of how to measure AI value, and who sets the…
The Weekend Notebook #2628 – Cheaper, Regulated and Embedded
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com on 12 July 2026 Three forces shaped this week’s AI story. Models got cheaper by design, not just by routing. Infrastructure crossed into regulated territory. And AI embedded itself deeper into finance and attention, prompting accountability frameworks to follow. The Model Race Gets Cheaper and Faster OpenAI released GPT-5.6 in…
Weekend Notebook #2627. Reuters Momentum AI London
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com on 5th July 2026 Earlier this week I participated in a panel called “Aligning the C-Suite on Enterprise AI Strategy,” alongside Scott Marcar, Group CIO at NatWest, Colin Bannon, CTO at BT Business, and Rina Ladva, Managing Director UK&I at Miro. The panel moderated by Georgia Lewis Anderson was part…
Weekend Notebook #2626 – Intelligence per Dollar
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com | 29 June 2026 This week, the AI industry quietly changed how it measures progress. Capital kept flowing at historic scale. But underneath the headlines, three separate stories converged on the same idea. The cost of intelligence, the cost of the hardware that delivers it, and the cost of the…
Weekend Notebook #2625 – Yoga: a Leadership Discipline
Published on LinkedIn and amitabhapte.com | 21st June 2026 Today is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, and the 12th International Day of Yoga. This year’s theme is “Yoga for Healthy Ageing.” Apt, since most conversations about yoga still assume it is just a young person’s pursuit. It never was. This weekend…
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