As Samsung brings Perplexity to the biggest screen in the house, Amazon shrugs off a global outage, and Meta poaches talent to fuel the model race, leaders face a new execution gap: deploying AI at scale without breaking trust, codebases, or cost curves. In parallel, federal oversight is inching forward, energy policy is whiplashing, and investors are crowding into “finance-for-all” plays, from embedded rails to private equity access, against a backdrop of volatile earnings and sovereign rescue math. Healthcare is equally kinetic: costs keep rising, Medicare choices get harder, and AI adoption accelerates from pilots to platforms.
News Trends to Watch
AI & Tech
- Axios: Samsung inks Perplexity deal to bring AI to the TV
- Business Insider: Inside the AI divide roiling video-game giant Electronic Arts
- CNN: Amazon says systems are back online after global internet outage
- Forbes: The Next Retail Shake-Up: AI Agents That Redefine Your Job
- NPR: Tech CEOs say the era of ‘code by AI’ is here. Some software engineers are skeptical
- TIME: Meta Poaches Key Google AI Researcher
Politics and Regulation:
- Axios: Anthropic tries to defuse White House backlash
- CNBC: U.S. federal AI regulation is on the way, Sen. Marsha Blackburn says, regardless of big tech opposition
- Forbes: $1 Trillion And Counting: Do Federal Grants Sabotage Regulatory Reform?
- Reuters: API reverses course on E15 gasoline bill, calls for regulatory fixes
Finance & Investment
- AP News: The Gilded Age of Private Equity for the Masses
- PYMNTS: Embedded Finance Crosses the Tipping Point
- Reuters: Wall Street indexes mixed as investors assess earnings for direction
- Reuters: Coinbase signs $375 million deal for crypto investment platform Echo
- The Wall Street Journal: U.S. Banks Are Hunting for Collateral to Back $20 Billion Argentina Bailout
Healthcare
- AP News: What Americans think about rising health care costs, according to a new AP-NORC poll
- Axios: Medicare Advantage plans embrace riskier patients
- CNBC: What Medicare beneficiaries need to consider during open enrollment
- Forbes: AI Adoption In Healthcare Is Surging: What A New Report Reveals
- The Wall Street Journal: Wall Street Is Betting on an Obamacare Deal. That Won’t Fix Insurers’ Troubles.
Clients in the News
- Alternatives Watch: Easterly adds PM, relaunches U.S. listed real estate strategies (Easterly)
- Crunchbase News: How Will We Know When Artificial Superintelligence Is Here? (Prospero AI)
- IBS Intelligence: Open banking, simplified: Interview with Guillaume Bouvard, Co-founder, COO & CMO, Extend (Extend)
- Investment News: Current and future finance stars shine bright at the 2025 InvestmentNews Women to Watch Awards (Athena Capital)
- Tech Observer: Autonomize AI launches platform for healthcare firms to build and manage AI workflows (Autonomize AI)
- Technology Magazine: NiCE Cognigy: How Agentic AI Transforms Customer Service (NiCE Cognigy)
Turn This Week’s Signals Into Your Next Strategic Advantage
This week’s stack shows AI exiting the lab and entering everyday experiences, on screens, in workflows, and across balance sheets. Policy momentum suggests clearer rules are coming, even as industries navigate outages, talent shifts, and regulatory reversals. For brands and funds, the opportunity is to deploy with discipline: choose the right agentic use cases, harden governance, and lean into distribution where embedded finance and healthcare platforms are scaling fastest. We help leaders translate noise into narrative and momentum into measurable outcomes.
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