Big Creek Briefing AI is Working For Small Business Welcome to this week's Big Creek Briefing. This week felt like a turning point. Between Anthropic plugging Claude directly into the tools you already run your business on, OpenAI opening its ad platform to companies that can't afford a $50K minimum spend, and a fresh wave of data showing AI is now splitting founders into two distinct camps (growers and decliners), the window between "early adopter" and "left behind" is closing fast. Here is...
11 days ago • 5 min read
Big Creek Briefing The AI Operating System Welcome to this week's Big Creek Briefing. Something shifted this week, and it's bigger than another model launch or funding round. The major AI labs are no longer just building software you plug into your workflow. They're rebuilding the infrastructure your entire workflow runs on. Google is turning Android into an AI-first operating system. OpenAI launched a $4 billion enterprise deployment company. Anthropic opened the floodgates on autonomous...
17 days ago • 5 min read
Big Creek Briefing AI Agents New Operating System Welcome to this week's Big Creek Briefing. This week the agent layer of AI moved from concept to infrastructure. Anthropic shipped ten ready-to-run agents aimed at the most painful parts of finance work, Salesforce flipped its entire platform into an API surface so agents can run it without a human ever touching a browser, and OpenAI closed a record funding round that resets what "well-capitalized" even means. For founders and small business...
25 days ago • 6 min read
Big Creek Briefing The AI Arms Race and Small Business Welcome to this week's Big Creek Briefing. This week in AI felt less like incremental updates and more like tectonic shifts. Google dropped a new open-source model family with agentic capabilities running directly on your phone, Anthropic confirmed it's hiding its most powerful model from the public, and a blockbuster PwC study revealed that 74% of AI's economic value is flowing to just 20% of companies. For founders and small business...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Big Creek Briefing Smart Founders Working with AI Welcome to this week's Big Creek Briefing. This week in AI handed small business owners a split-screen view of where things are headed. A landmark PwC study confirmed what many have quietly suspected: a small group of companies is capturing most of the economic value from AI, and the gap is accelerating. At the same time, Meta threw a curveball by abandoning open-source AI and launching its first proprietary model, while Anthropic dropped new...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Big Creek Briefing AI Rewriting the Rules of Work Welcome to this week's Big Creek Briefing. This week, AI crossed from tool to policy agenda. OpenAI released a sweeping economic blueprint that has founders, workers, and economists talking. Google made a major move to turn its Workspace suite into an AI-powered command center. And the numbers on AI adoption among small businesses hit a new high watermark. If you've been treating AI as a nice-to-have, this week's news is a clear signal that...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Big Creek Briefing AI Companies Blew Their Cover Welcome to this week's Big Creek Briefing. This week, the AI industry made headlines by accident, and the story behind those headlines is worth paying close attention to if you run a business. Anthropic leaked its own source code, confirmed the existence of a next-generation autonomous AI model it wasn't ready to announce, and Perplexity got hit with a class-action lawsuit for secretly sharing your conversations with Meta and Google. Meanwhile,...
2 months ago • 6 min read
Big Creek Briefing AI Solving Math Problems Welcome to this week's Big Creek Briefing. This week, AI crossed a line that most people weren't paying attention to. A Google DeepMind model solved an open mathematical problem that humans have wrestled with for decades. Meanwhile, OpenAI dropped a major ChatGPT upgrade, a popular developer tool got caught in a transparency controversy, and the data on small business AI adoption hit a new high. Lots to get into. Let's jump in! Big Stories of the...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Big Creek Briefing AI's Big Week! Welcome to this week's Big Creek Briefing. Nvidia took over San Jose. Meta had a security scare that everyone in tech is still talking about. And a new Morgan Stanley report is sounding the alarm that a major AI breakthrough is coming and most businesses are not ready for it. If you've been waiting for a "slow news week" to catch up on AI, this is not it. Let's break it all down. Let's jump in! Big Stories of the Week Nvidia's GTC Keynote Changed the...
2 months ago • 5 min read
