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Five stories worth your attention this week, with our take on each.

Week of 10 May 20264 stories

Voice AI, ChatGPT ads, and the enterprise services land grab — week of 10 May.

Four moves this week reshape how mid-market leadership teams should think about AI procurement, advertising, voice interfaces, and governance. Our read on each below.

  • OpenAIOpenAI bets on voice AI as enterprise use cases expand.
  • OpenAIAds are coming to ChatGPT — and that changes the AI business model.
  • ReutersOpenAI and Anthropic target the enterprise AI implementation market.
  • NIST / CAISIThe US steps up pre-release testing of frontier AI models.
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The most recent two briefs across every category.

EDITOR'S PICK
·TOOLSSkillset Vault

10 prompts every mid-market executive should have on file.

Ten copy-paste prompts we use weekly with mid-market clients. Strategic decisions, board prep, customer signal, hiring, P&L commentary — pressure-tested in real engagements.

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·TOOLSTools

Why we use Claude Cowork with every mid-market client (and what it replaced).

We use Claude Cowork with every mid-market client. Here's what it actually does for executives, why it replaced ChatGPT for most of our work, and 5 specific ways to use it.

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Regulations

EU AI Act, GDPR, and policy shifts that change your compliance posture.

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·REGULATIONSEU AI Act

The EU AI Act's August 2, 2026 deadline: a mid-market readiness guide.

On 2 August 2026, EU AI Act enforcement turns on for high-risk systems. Most mid-market firms aren't ready. A 90-day compliance checklist, deployer evidence requirements, and what to do this quarter.

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Tools

Operator reviews of AI tools we use with clients.

EDITOR'S PICK
·TOOLSSkillset Vault

10 prompts every mid-market executive should have on file.

Ten copy-paste prompts we use weekly with mid-market clients. Strategic decisions, board prep, customer signal, hiring, P&L commentary — pressure-tested in real engagements.

9 min readRead
·TOOLSTools

Why we use Claude Cowork with every mid-market client (and what it replaced).

We use Claude Cowork with every mid-market client. Here's what it actually does for executives, why it replaced ChatGPT for most of our work, and 5 specific ways to use it.

8 min readRead
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Events, masterclasses, and the people we're working with.

Kati Torim and Teet Torim with co-host at the AI Salon Porto launch at Porto Business School.
·PORTO, PORTUGAL

AI Salon Porto is live. Teet directs, I co-direct. Here's what we're building.

AI Salon, the global community for AI founders, builders, investors, and partners, has arrived in Porto. Launched at Porto Business School with international consortium partners.

With Porto Business School · Porto Tech Hub · Innovation X Hub · ScaleUp Porto · Oporto Forte Group · Blitzscale Ventures
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Kati Torim and Teet Torim at Honorcrest Johannesburg masterclass, April 2026.
·JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

Three-day AI masterclass in Johannesburg with Honorcrest.

Global executives, on-site delivery, the operator perspective on AI in pan-African business contexts.

With Honorcrest Institute · MGibes Ghana · Porto Business School
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We tell mid-market companies when AI is the wrong answer. We tell them when 'wait and see' is the wrong answer too.

— Non-Tech AI Advisory
Founders on LinkedIn

Posts from Kati and Teet on what we're seeing in the field.

·FOUNDERSField Note
Kati TorimKati Torim

I built an operating system for my life — and replaced 8 tools with one

280 pages. One system. Built entirely with AI. The story of the Minapildi Restart — how I stopped collecting apps and built one coherent OS for how I actually think, plan, and run my business.

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Kati TorimKati Torim

The best AI prompt I've written? A story about a taxi driver in Giza.

I didn't write a prompt. I wrote a story. And then ChatGPT understood exactly what I needed. What happens when you stop treating AI as a search engine and start treating it as a conversation partner.

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·FOUNDERSField Note
Kati TorimKati Torim

Pattern Weaver: why I built a custom GPT for everything I know

Fifteen years of frameworks, mental models, and lessons from working with hundreds of businesses — packaged into one custom GPT, accessible to me and the people I work with.

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YouTube picks

Curated videos worth your time, with our take on what to extract.

·YOUTUBEAI Agents

Anthropic unveils AI agents for financial services tasks.

— Anthropic
Our take: Anthropic's new finance-focused AI agents show how quickly AI is moving into Wall Street's core workflows. By automating tasks like client event proposals and compliance checks, these tools could boost productivity while putting pressure on traditional data providers such as Moody's and S&P. The bigger signal is clear: finance is becoming a key battleground for AI-driven automation of knowledge work, with Anthropic and OpenAI racing to define the future of enterprise AI.
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·YOUTUBEAI Agents

Head of Claude Code on the future of work and productivity.

— Anthropic — Head of Claude Code
Our take: Anthropic's Head of Claude Code says AI agents are becoming essential co-workers for knowledge work, not just coding tools. To unlock major productivity gains, companies must redesign workflows around AI, train employees to delegate routine tasks, and continuously test new models as capabilities improve. Businesses should also use AI defensively to detect and fix software vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them.
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