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📬 A focused Sunday briefing to complement your regular issues.
🟣 Sunday Special - Your AI Events, Learning, and Career Briefing
⏱ 3-min read
Issue # 55
This week:
📊 McKinsey's stark map of where global capital is really going
🏆 A $50 hackathon at Microsoft HQ with $25K in prizes
🧠 Fable 5 is back worldwide and the access terms changed
📅 Events, courses, and AI jobs worth your Sunday
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📊 The Big Picture
America is building data centers. China is building everything else.
McKinsey Global Institute's new report Catalyzing Competitiveness maps where the world's capital is actually going.
What it means for you:
Data center investment: up ~200% since late 2022. Outside AI: flat
China adds ~$4.4T in net productive assets yearly — 4x the US
Almost all net-new US capacity is AI infrastructure. Ride the wave or compete with it
The AI boom isn't part of the US investment story right now. It basically is the story.
👉 Read the full MGI report → https://mck.co/4vLNneJ
How AI-Era Pricing Is Reshaping Finance Operations
Usage-based and hybrid pricing models are changing how B2B companies generate revenue — and creating new headaches for the finance teams behind them.
Tabs co-founder Rebecca Schwartz and PwC Partner Amit Dhir sat down to unpack exactly what that means in practice: how pricing model decisions ripple into revenue recognition, forecasting, and financial ops — and what it takes to scale without piling on manual work.
Watch the on-demand recording to get practical frameworks, real-world examples, and a clear path to operationalizing usage-based revenue — including a forward-looking take on how AI will reshape financial workflows. If your team is navigating pricing complexity heading into the back half of the year, this is worth an hour.
📘 From The AI Entrepreneurs
AI Marketing Playbook 2026
Built with Claude. Tested on 70,000+ readers.
Last week $1. This week $10 still the cheapest way to put AI to work across content, ads, email, chatbots, and analytics. Tools, workflows, copy-paste prompts, and a 7-day action plan. 10 pages. No coding.
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🏆 Hackathon to Keep
🔹 VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon @ Microsoft HQ
Build enterprise AI with Azure OpenAI, Copilot, and agents at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, July 28–29. Up to $25,000 in prizes. Hackathon-only entry $50 (free with the VSLive! conference). Solo or teams up to 4.
👉 Register at vslive.com →
🧠 Builder Signal
The 19-Day Ban Is Over — Fable 5 Is Back for Builders Worldwide
Fable 5 returned July 1 after Commerce lifted its June 12 export controls
Back on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code, and Cowork cloud platforms restoring now
Ban lifted after rival models reproduced the same exploit
Included in plans only through July 7 then usage credits kick in
Rebuild this week but read the new terms first.
Building something with AI this weekend? Forward this to someone who keeps saying "I can't build things."
📅AI Events — pick the one that fits
AI developers: AI Coding Summit — Jul 6–7 (London & online)
Data & analytics leaders: Data & Analytics Live — Jul 8 ( Online)
Infrastructure teams: Cloud Roadmap Series: Infrastructure for the Agentic Era — Google Cloud — Jul 22 (online)
Prompt engineers: Beyond the Prompt — Google Cloud — Jul 9 (online)
🎓AI Learning Opportunities
Agent builders: Agent Skills with Anthropic — DeepLearning.AI.
Business leaders: Implementing AI Solutions in Business — DataCamp.
Beginners: Google AI Professional Certificate — Coursera.
AI practitioners: NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Course — NVIDIA DLI.
API developers: Claude with the Anthropic API — Anthropic Academy.
Microsoft developers: Develop AI Agents with Semantic Kernel — Microsoft Learn.
💼AI Career Opportunities
Go to Market Manager, AI Business Solutions — Microsoft.
AI Engineer — Wellfound.
Staff AI Product Designer, Gemini Assistant — Google DeepMind.
Staff Software Engineer, AI Reliability — Anthropic.
Content Designer — OpenAI.
✨ Final Note
McKinsey just showed AI is carrying nearly all of America's net-new investment. Fable 5 is back worldwide. The Microsoft hackathon is $50. The courses are free. The playbook is $10 this week only.
Pick one thing from this issue and do it before Sunday ends.
