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What happened this week: * The METR capability curve just went from one hour to one day. The unit of AI autonomy is now measured in human work-days, and the doubling holds on a log scale: METR, an AI evaluation lab, measures... * Half of organisations have already redesigned core workflows around AI, and a fifth have built new business models. The gap framing misses the story: BCG's AI at Work 2025 survey of 10,635 employee... * Anthropic just passed OpenAI in US business AI spend. The strategy lesson is older than AI: pick an audience and serve them: Ramp's AI Index, built from anonymised spend data across its US business... What to try: * Hand over the context, not just the question: Experienced leaders have context and are short on time. AI tools convert context into time saved, but only if you hand the context over. A leader David... * Build a personal skill, and add a rule to it every Sunday: A person David worked with this week reviews 100-page reports from their team on Sunday nights — typos, inconsistent language, logic gaps.... * Schedule a daily AI briefing. The use cases will follow: AI tools sit closed until you open them. That's a real reason senior leaders bounce off: not bad prompts, but a tool that requires you to th... Read the full edition with all links and sources: https://steadman.ai/newsletters/david/#edition-2026-05-16