Oliver Bussmann

Board Chair | Independent NED | Senior PE Advisor | Ex-Group CIO UBS & SAP | AI, FinTech & Enterprise Software & Services | Weekly AI & FinTech Newsletter 55K+

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Congratulations to the winners of the Innovation in Digital Banking Awards 20201 by @TheBanker

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Anthropic and OpenAI pledge to embed independent safety evaluators, but neither has named who, when, or what access and disclosure will actually mean. Intent is ahead of the terms. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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OpenAI is piloting sponsored AI agents in ChatGPT, letting users chat directly with a brand after clicking an ad. ChatGPT Ads hit a one billion dollar annualized run rate by Aug 31. Conversational interfaces are becoming ad infrastructure. #AI #Advertising

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Nvidia, Google and Emerald AI launched AEMA, 18 partners, to make AI data centers flex power use with grid conditions instead of drawing flat load. Electricity is becoming a strategic constraint on AI scaling, not a utility line item.

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OpenAI weighing a 1.2 trillion dollar private valuation against 40 billion dollars in annualized revenue. That gap is the diligence question every investor should be asking before the IPO. #AI #PrivateEquity

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TRM Labs: just 0.6% to 7.5% of $52.7M in x402 payment value is genuinely agentic, the rest is scripts wearing agent clothing. Volume is not a proxy for autonomy.

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OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind confirm weeks of talks on AI safety and independent model verification. Frontier AI oversight is becoming industry infrastructure, not a company policy choice. #AI #AISafety

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Nvidia and Palantir restrict Anthropic's Fable over data retention terms, favoring in-house models or zero-retention guarantees instead. Control now beats performance for sensitive workloads. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Anthropic's own model shows knowledge worker unemployment hitting 17.9% and labor's GDP share falling to 45.2% in its extreme AI scenario. Days later its CEO called for slowing AI down, while the company eyes a 2 trillion dollar valuation. #AI

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Microsoft's new AI code of conduct bars its models from cyberattacks, deception, and evading human shutdown. Written rules aren't controls. Enforcement, testing and proof humans can intervene are the real questions for boards. #AI #AIGovernance

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Worldline now lets merchants accept purchases made by AI agents, built on Google's Universal Commerce Protocol. Agentic commerce is moving from pilots into payment infrastructure.

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