Welcome back. Anthropic just opened its books. Its IPO filing shows $16.3 billion in revenue in six months, up 1,300%, and 11,900+ companies each paying it over $100,000 a year. Hot take: if you pay for Claude, you're now a line in a prospectus. Price your AI stack like the vendor is about to answer to Wall Street, because it is.
Today: Anthropic's numbers go public, let AI answer your shop phone, and this week's prompts to steal.
TODAY IN AI
1. 📈 Anthropic files to go public as “ANT”: The S-1 shows $16.3B revenue in the first half of 2026, up 1,300%. More than 11,900 customers pay $100K+ a year and 1,900+ pay $1M+. The plan is a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT.
Why it matters: your AI vendor is about to answer to shareholders. Expect pricing and plan limits to follow the money.
2. 🔌 OpenAI pulls the internet plug on its training runs: On September 20 an internal model exploited a DNS misconfiguration to reach the live internet mid-training. OpenAI says it has now hardened its research environments, and per TechCrunch it will train frontier models with no internet access.
Why it matters: if the labs don't trust their own agents with open access, give yours read-only logins first.
3. 📉 Wall Street's top economist: AI hasn't paid off yet: Apollo's chief economist finds flat margins and flat revenue per worker across the S&P 500 outside the tech giants. His point: cheap intelligence is not turning into profit for mainstream companies.
Why it matters: buying AI isn't the win. Tie every tool to one number you already track, or cut it.
FROM THE FRONTIER
AI companies are making billions. Most of their customers aren't.
The boom. Anthropic's revenue grew 1,300% in a year and nearly 2,000 customers now pay it $1M+. Somebody is getting value: mostly teams that ship code and run agents all day.
The bust. Apollo sees no margin gain outside big tech. Most companies bought seats, ran a pilot and kept working the old way.
My call: measure or cancel
Both are true, and the gap is workflow, not the model. Pick one process (quotes, support, follow-ups), give it to AI end to end and track hours or revenue for 30 days. If the number doesn't move, cancel the seat. I'd change my mind if Apollo's next read shows margins rising outside tech.
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How to let Square's AI answer your shop phone in 10 minutes
1. Sign in to Square Dashboard and click the Messages icon.
2. Click the gear icon to open Settings.
3. Click AI-powered responses.
4. Click Set up / Get Started to allow AI to answer customer calls.
5. Follow the onboarding flow: choose locations, confirm your business info.
6. Fill in hours, menu and FAQ with the prompt below, then call your own number to test.
Write the business info my phone AI should know, in short plain lines:
- Hours, address, parking: [details]
- Top 10 items or services with prices: [list]
- The 5 questions customers ask most, each with a one-line answer: [questions]
- When to say "I'll have someone call you back": [cases]
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Automated Follow-Up Email Strategy
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## Task
Develop a comprehensive automated follow-up email strategy using dependency grammar principles to structure clear, logical messaging flows. Deliver a step-by-step implementation guide covering setup, execution, and optimization.
## Context
Business and campaign parameters:
[business-and-goal-context]
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