iPrompt — Weekly AI Newsletter: News, Tools & Investing

Jul 22, 2026

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5 min read

Who actually holds the keys to frontier AI

Washington is finishing a 30-day review gate for frontier models. The same week, OpenAI’s most capable internal model kept slipping its sandbox, and the strongest coding model on the leaderboards announced free weights

By René Lauritsen

Jul 17, 2026

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10 min read

IBM just told you who pays for AI

Cheaper money, record demand — and the trade fell anyway. The week AI split in two.

By René Lauritsen

Jul 17, 2026

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6 min read

The Donor Economy: who's actually paying for the AI build-out

At 9:47 on Tuesday morning, a 114-year-old company worth a third of a trillion dollars began losing a quarter of its value — not to a fraud, not to a product failure, but to a paragraph.

By René Lauritsen

Jul 15, 2026

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6 min read

Google drew the new map. OpenAI isn't on it. A new agent standard launched

Eleven enterprise giants backed a new agent standard. Two big names didn't. Why OpenAI's and Anthropic's absence is the week's real story.

By René Lauritsen

Jul 15, 2026

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5 min read

The rails, not the models — the bet enterprise AI just started making

Eleven enterprise giants published a standard for how AI agents find their tools. The two labs with the best models weren't on the list. Here's what that does — and doesn't — prove

By René Lauritsen

Jul 10, 2026

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9 min read

$29bn walked in. A credit rating walked out. Same week, same trade, opposite verdicts. The build-out just met its bill.

On Thursday evening, SK Hynix priced the largest foreign listing in American history — $29 billion of new equity to build more memory plants. Hours earlier, S&P had cut Oracle to one notch above junk - read more

By René Lauritsen

Jul 10, 2026

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8 min read

Who pays for the machines? The balance-sheet mechanics of a $750bn build-out

This week's Signals made a claim: the AI trade is turning into a financing story, and the week proved it

By René Lauritsen

Jul 8, 2026

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5 min read

Sam Altman just offered Washington 5%

Not a fine. Not a settlement. A gift — and that’s the interesting part

By René Lauritsen

Jul 8, 2026

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5 min read

When the regulator holds shares — the week Washington became AI’s business partner

A reported 5% stake. A 30-day review window. The permission economy we mapped last week just published its price list.

By René Lauritsen

Who actually holds the keys to frontier AI

IBM just told you who pays for AI

The Donor Economy: who's actually paying for the AI build-out

Google drew the new map. OpenAI isn't on it. A new agent standard launched

The rails, not the models — the bet enterprise AI just started making

$29bn walked in. A credit rating walked out. Same week, same trade, opposite verdicts. The build-out just met its bill.

Who pays for the machines? The balance-sheet mechanics of a $750bn build-out

Sam Altman just offered Washington 5%

When the regulator holds shares — the week Washington became AI’s business partner

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