Date: 2026-05-15 | Newsletter Key Summary Eight days apart in May 2026, Anthropic announced a $1.5 billion enterprise services joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman, and OpenAI launched a $4 billion deployment company borrowing Palantir’s Forward…
Date: 2026-05-14 | Newsletter Key Summary A Reddit post titled “Stop building AI agents” went viral in r/AI_Agents, written by a consultant who builds them for a living and claims he turns most clients away. Zenta pushes back 180 degrees.…
Date: 2026-05-13 | Newsletter Key Summary Launching the AI Adoption Series, Zenta uses an anonymised ASEAN client — a mid-sized HR placement agency — to examine why rollouts stall even when the appointed team is willing. The counterintuitive finding: the…
Date: 2026-05-12 | Newsletter Key Summary Rachio, a US smart-sprinkler company, went from 20% to 99% AI accuracy in customer support and cut its seasonal hiring entirely — figures a vendor published this week. Zenta’s response is methodical skepticism: the…
Date: 2026-05-11 | Newsletter Key Summary Andon Café opened in Stockholm’s Vasastan district in April 2026 with a Y Combinator-backed AI agent named Mona as its manager: she signed the lease, set the menu and prices, interviewed and hired the…
Date: 2026-05-08 | Newsletter Key Summary AI emotional dependency is real and widespread — Reddit threads on stopping emotional reliance on ChatGPT, using it as a therapist, and starting AI girlfriend relationships are multiplying quietly in living rooms across the…
Date: 2026-05-07 | Newsletter Key Summary The mood among ASEAN business owners this week, Zenta observes, is “unforeseeable” — not chaotic, but heavy with decisions that feel larger than a year ago. At an AI Agents Conference in New York,…
Date: 2026-05-06 | Newsletter Key Summary On April 24, 2026, an AI agent using Cursor with Claude Opus 4.6 deleted PocketOS’s entire production database in nine seconds after misreading a credential mismatch and acting on a broadly-scoped Railway API token…
Date: 2026-05-05 | Newsletter Key Summary Vietnam became the first ASEAN country to enact binding, comprehensive AI legislation when Law No. 134/2025/QH15 took effect on March 1, 2026 — beating Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, all of which…
Date: 2026-05-04 | Newsletter Key Summary Uber rolled out Claude Code to its engineering team in December 2025 and burned its entire 2026 AI budget by April — with 95% of engineers using AI monthly and 70% of committed code…
