Date: 2026-04-17 | Newsletter Key Summary Uber’s CTO admitted publicly that AI costs “blew away” projected budgets after the company gamified Claude Code adoption with internal leaderboards — driving 11% of live back-end updates to be AI-written in three months,…
Date: 2026-04-16 | Newsletter Key Summary Three moves in 24 hours — and Zenta reads them as one game. OpenAI launched GPT-5.4 Cyber, a cybersecurity-tuned model with relaxed guardrails for binary reverse-engineering, positioned as a counter-punch to Anthropic’s Mythos. Anthropic,…
Date: 2026-04-15 | Newsletter Key Summary Three seemingly unrelated events in 24 hours share a single thread. Anthropic announced Project Glasswing — a consortium of AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and major financial institutions — to defend against its own…
Date: 2026-04-14 | Newsletter Key Summary Meta confirmed that Mark Zuckerberg is building a photorealistic AI clone of himself so all 79,000 employees can “talk to the CEO” anytime. He reportedly codes it himself five to ten hours a week.…
Date: 2026-04-13 | Newsletter Key Summary A Talker Research survey of 2,000 adults found that 54% of Americans are “getting tired of hearing about AI” — yet 69% are actively using it, 16% daily. Zenta draws a clean line between…
Date: 2026-04-11 | Newsletter Key Summary When Meow Technologies launched what it called “the first agentic banking platform” — letting AI agents open business bank accounts, issue credit cards, and send payments without a human clicking — most ASEAN business…
Date: 2026-04-09 | Newsletter Key Summary This week two signals pointed the same way for business owners: Grab rolled out 13 new AI features across its ASEAN superapp, while Amazon began enforcing its “April 2026 Purge,” requiring every AI agent…
FunAi deploys IRIS, a multilingual AI Photo Studio Assistant running at 97% face identification accuracy across 7 languages — already live at Lux Asia in Ho Chi Minh City handling wedding and event photography.
Functional AI announces development of AVA MEI, a multilingual accounting AI agent built for accounting firms — achieving a 92.7% autonomous processing ratio on the recurring pain points of document retrieval, file-name normalization, and staff handover.
elDesign (Tokyo) and FunAI (Singapore) launch business collaboration to bring conversational AI Voice Agents to Japanese call centres — automating address/contract/cancellation enquiries while humans focus on urgent cases.
