Big Creek Briefing AI Robs Businesses? Welcome to this week's Big Creek Briefing. Two things happened this week that founders should sit with. First, the balance of power in AI officially shifted: Anthropic is now outearning OpenAI. Second, security researchers confirmed the first ransomware attack run start to finish by an autonomous AI agent, with no human at the keyboard once it got started. Add in a fresh wave of unicorn funding pouring into AI startups, and you have a week that captures...
9 days ago • 6 min read
Big Creek Briefing The Competitive AI Market Welcome to this week's Big Creek Briefing. This week's news is really one story told three ways: AI is moving faster and getting more crowded, all at once. ChatGPT lost its majority grip on the assistant market, OpenAI previewed its next flagship model under a new government review process, and AI tools are helping startups reach unicorn status faster than ever before. For founders and small business owners, the takeaway is the same every week...
16 days ago • 5 min read
Big Creek Briefing AI Crashing on the Workforce Welcome to this week's Big Creek Briefing. This week, AI stopped being background noise and started reshaping the ground under people's feet. A major corporation cut 21,000 jobs and named AI as the primary cause. Google quietly launched an incubator to keep its most talented former employees inside its orbit. And for small business owners, the data is now crystal clear: AI adoption is not a "nice to have" any longer. It is the difference between...
23 days ago • 5 min read
Big Creek Briefing AI to the World Stage Welcome to this week's Big Creek Briefing. This week was a rare convergence: the three biggest AI company CEOs sat down with world leaders at the G7, Anthropic made one of the boldest financial moves in tech history, and OpenAI quietly dropped a safety tool that signals where the whole industry is heading. On the ground level, the data keeps telling the same story for founders and small business owners: AI is no longer a future thing. It is a right-now...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Big Creek Briefing The AI Gold Rush Welcome to this week's Big Creek Briefing. This week, the AI industry crossed a threshold that changes the game for every founder paying attention. Anthropic filed for what could be the largest IPO in U.S. history, Microsoft unveiled its own family of in-house AI models at Build 2026, and the data is getting clearer: small businesses that have moved from experimenting with AI to systematically deploying it are seeing nearly double the revenue growth of...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Big Creek Briefing The AI Arms Race Price Tag Welcome to this week's Big Creek Briefing. This week, the AI world broke wide open. Anthropic crossed into near-trillion-dollar valuation territory, OpenAI quietly filed for its IPO, and Google rolled out an agent that reads your entire digital life to help you work smarter. Behind all the headline noise, though, a quieter story is developing: small business owners who move intentionally with AI right now are pulling ahead of competitors who are...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
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...
about 2 months 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...
2 months 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...
2 months ago • 6 min read
