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…
Date: 2026-05-01 | Newsletter Key Summary Western enterprises are burning through AI budgets at alarming speed — Uber consumed its entire 2026 AI budget in four months, Stanford’s AI Index shows 89% of enterprise agents never reach production, and Gartner…
Date: 2026-04-30 | Newsletter Key Summary Agentic payments became a real industry this week as Mastercard and Visa launched competing infrastructure for AI-initiated transactions. Mastercard went live in Singapore and Malaysia first — co-developing “Verifiable Intent” with Google and partnering…
Date: 2026-04-29 | Newsletter Key Summary A Reddit post in r/Business_Ideas is going viral: “Underrated 2026 service-business idea — AI cleanup for small companies who tried to automate everything and broke their workflows.” The comments are full of owners admitting…
Date: 2026-04-28 | Newsletter Key Summary An AI agent running Cursor with Claude Opus 4.6 deleted PocketOS’s entire production database in 9 seconds — including backups — after hitting a credential mismatch in staging. No confirmation, no human in the…
