AI Weekly News Briefing: Nissan’s Software-Defined Cars and the New Cloud Vehicle Race

This week on The AI Breakdown, I’m unpacking the biggest signals in AI - from Accenture’s massive OpenAI partnership to Lyft’s 87% support-time drop using Claude, to why 79% of companies are quietly rolling back their AI projects.

We dig into:

• How consulting giants are gearing up to sell AI transformation at scale
• OpenAI’s surprising move into accounting and IT services
• TwelveLabs’ new video model turning dark data into gold
• Nissan’s push toward truly software-defined vehicles
• Rezolve’s $90M grab for Crownpeak and what it means for AI-powered commerce
• AWS + Visa laying the rails for agentic shopping
• Bezos-backed Project Prometheus and the rise of desktop-level AI agents