🗞️In this edition

• Elon Musk launches Grokipedia to challenge Wikipedia

• Sponsored: PicsArt – Automate your content marketing workflow

• Claude takes on Wall Street's spreadsheets

• AMD wins $1B supercomputer deal with DOE

• Workflow Wednesday #41 ‘AI & Human Creativity’

• In other AI news –

  • Amazon plans to cut 14,000 corporate roles as it looks to trim costs and streamline operations while doubling down on AI investments

  • Qualcomm debuts AI200 and AI250 chips  new AI processors built from smartphone tech to challenge Nvidia’s dominance

  • PayPal shares jump 14% after becoming the first payments wallet integrated directly into ChatGPT

  • 4 must-try AI tools

Elon Musk launches AI-powered Wikipedia alternative

What's happening:

Elon Musk launched Grokipedia on Monday, an AI-generated encyclopedia that claims it will "purge out the propaganda" flooding Wikipedia.

The site launched with over 800,000 AI-written entries edited by xAI's Grok. 

Entries include one on Musk describing his public persona as blending "innovative visionary with irreverent provocateur." It notes his diet of "occasional indulgences like morning donuts and multiple Diet Cokes daily."

The site adds to Musk's media ecosystem alongside X, where he's reinstated right-wing creators and used the platform to drive government funding cuts. He's also tweaked Grok to lean further right.

Musk has criticized Wikipedia for months, calling it "woke" and claiming it excludes conservative media from approved citations. He escalated attacks in January after his Wikipedia entry was edited to note a gesture during Trump's inauguration that many compared to a Nazi salute.

"Since legacy media propaganda is considered a 'valid' source by Wikipedia, it naturally simply becomes an extension of legacy media propaganda," Musk posted, urging donors to stop funding the site.

Why this is important:

Wikipedia visits from humans fell 8% this year while AI scraper traffic increased. AI summaries from search engines and chatbots are stopping users from visiting Wikipedia directly.

"People will take information they get from these tools at face value, and that information may or may not be correct," said Selena Deckelmann, CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation. "The value Wikipedia has provided for over a decade is that it lets people dig into the sources."

Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia co-founder, said he doesn't think AI can replace the site's accuracy. He's leading an internal group focused on neutral points of view and developing guidelines to address potential biases.

Our personal take on it at OpenTools:

This is Musk building infrastructure for his political worldview.

X controls social distribution. Grok controls conversational AI. Now Grokipedia controls reference information. That's a complete media stack aligned with one person's politics.

The "purge propaganda" framing is rich. Wikipedia's crowdsourced and transparent. Grokipedia's edited by an AI system Musk's company controls. Which one has more accountability?

The site crashed immediately and has 10% of Wikipedia's content. But execution doesn't matter if the goal is narrative control, not encyclopedia quality.

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Anthropic launches Claude for excel with real-time market data

What's happening:

Anthropic launched Claude for Excel on Monday, embedding its AI assistant directly into spreadsheets alongside real-time market data from major financial providers.

The tool allows analysts to interact with Claude in an Excel sidebar. It can read, analyze, modify, and create workbooks while tracking changes and explaining actions at the cell level.

The transparency feature addresses finance's "black box" problem. When billions ride on a model's output, analysts need to understand how AI arrived at answers. Claude shows its work cell by cell.

Anthropic added six major data partnerships: Aiera provides earnings call transcripts and investor event summaries. LSEG connects Claude to live market data including fixed income, equities, FX rates, and analyst estimates. Moody's gives access to credit ratings and data on 600+ million companies. Chronograph provides private equity portfolio monitoring. Egnyte enables secure document searches. MT Newswires delivers global market news.

Combined with July partnerships including S&P Capital IQ, FactSet, and PitchBook, Claude now accesses virtually every financial data category analysts need.

The company also launched six "Agent Skills" automating common workflows: building DCF models, comparable company analysis, processing data room documents, creating pitch materials, analyzing earnings, and producing coverage reports.

Why this is important:

Financial services AI spending will hit $97B by 2027, up from $35B in 2023. Anthropic's competing directly with Microsoft Copilot and OpenAI for this market.

Excel remains finance's lingua franca. Embedding Claude where analysts already work eliminates app-switching friction that slows enterprise adoption.

Clients include Bridgewater, AIG, and Norway's $1.6T sovereign wealth fund. NBIM CEO Nicolai Tangen reported 20% productivity gains. AIG CEO Peter Zaffino said review timelines compressed 5x while data accuracy jumped from 75% to 90%.

Our personal take on it at OpenTools:

This is Anthropic's smartest enterprise play yet.

Domain-specific AI with privileged data access beats general-purpose assistants. Securing LSEG, Moody's, and S&P partnerships builds moats competitors can't easily replicate.

The 55% benchmark accuracy reveals both promise and limits. Good enough to be useful, not reliable enough to run unsupervised. That balance might actually help adoption since it doesn't threaten analyst jobs outright.

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AMD secures $1 billion deal for two DOE supercomputers

What's happening:

AMD sealed a $1B deal with the US Department of Energy to develop two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, alongside Oracle and HPE.

Both will be housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Lux launches early 2026. Discovery follows in 2029.

The supercomputers build on AMD's work with Frontier, previously the world's fastest supercomputer until El Capitan came online at Lawrence Livermore last year. 

The press release says Discovery will "drive breakthroughs in energy, biology, advanced materials, national security, and manufacturing innovation. It will help design next-generation reactors, batteries, catalysts, semiconductors, and critical materials."

Why this is important:

The US government is betting big on AI-specific supercomputing infrastructure separate from general-purpose systems.

Lux represents a strategic shift. Previous supercomputers like Frontier were designed for simulation and modeling. Lux is built specifically for training large AI models, reflecting how central AI has become to scientific research.

The 2026 timeline for Lux is aggressive. That puts significant AI training capacity online just as foundation models continue scaling. Discovery's 2029 delivery extends the roadmap through the end of the decade.

AMD's now the go-to partner for DOE supercomputing after delivering Frontier and El Capitan. This contract cements that position and challenges Nvidia's dominance in AI hardware.

Our personal take on it at OpenTools:

This is the US government treating AI infrastructure like national security infrastructure.

Building an "AI Factory" specifically for government research signals they're not relying on commercial AI labs for sensitive work. Energy, national security, and advanced materials research aren't going through OpenAI or Anthropic.

The timing matters. Lux comes online early 2026, right when current foundation models will be hitting scaling limits. 

Government labs will have dedicated capacity while commercial labs fight for GPU allocation.

AMD's winning because they deliver. Frontier worked. El Capitan worked. The DOE trusts them to execute on billion-dollar contracts.

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This Week in Workflow Wednesday #42: Sustainable AI – Using AI for long-term growth

This week, I’ll show you how to use Claude to build a full, well-worded newsletter (or blog post) in under an hour. Think of it as the cheat sheet for turning AI into your sustainable writing engine.

Workflow #1: Build a Newsletter Engine with Claude (free).
Step 1: Do more than just train Claude on your style - make sure that it KNOWS who you are, to make sure it absorbs your writing style perfectly, use the following prompt…..We dive into this Claude workflow and 2 more workflows in this week’s Workflow Wednesday.

📢 What else is happening?

• Amazon to Cut 14,000 White-Collar Jobs –The company is looking to slash costs by “reducing bureaucracy, removing layers, and shifting resources” as it continues to spend aggressively on artificial intelligence.

• Qualcomm is turning parts from cellphone chips into AI chips to rival Nvidia – The new AI200 and AI250 chips are based on the Hexagon tech Qualcomm includes in its mobile processors.

• PayPal shares surge 14% after OpenAI deal to become the first payments wallet in ChatGPT – Starting next year PayPal buyers and sellers will be able to complete transactions through the AI tool.

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