AI Weekly Briefing: Accenture Goes All In on Claude

This week I break down the biggest moves shaping the future of AI. OpenAI’s new enterprise report shows explosive adoption and usage growth, IBM drops eleven billion on Confluent to own the data-streaming backbone, Accenture goes deep with Anthropic in a partnership that could reshape corporate AI, and Runway’s Gen 4.5 quietly leapfrogs the giants in video generation. We also look at Instacart’s new agentic shopping experience inside ChatGPT, Anthropic’s push to bring Claude to nonprofits, and why Mistral’s open models are becoming a serious force.