The AI week in 5 minutes. And exactly what to do with it.
Every Thursday: the AI news worth your time, and the steps to use it that week.
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What lands every Thursday
The 5 or 6 stories you can act on
Pulled from 50+ AI newsletter issues a week. You get the ones that change what you do on Monday.
The numbers, checked
I check every figure on the company’s own page before it goes in.
The steps to use it
Every story ends with a ‘How to use it’ box: 2 to 4 things you can do that week.
A real ‘How to use it’ box, from this week’s issue
Your AI bill should drop this month. Check that it did
- Pull last month’s API spend per model so you have a baseline.
- Move anything still on Opus 5 to Opus 5.5. It is a one-line model change.
- Turn on prompt caching for any prompt that repeats a long system prompt or document.
- Compare next month’s bill to the baseline. If it didn’t fall, find out which job is eating it.
Who writes it
I’m Mike. I run OptiMAX AI, a lead-generation company that runs on the same AI systems I write about.
I also built Surbiton Daily, a local newsletter 847 people get every morning, with a 67% open rate.
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