# #040: AI news for business - week 9 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-bytes-7106785/040-ai-news-for-business-week-9 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-bytes-7106785/040-ai-news-for-business-week-9.md Podcast: [Future Bytes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-bytes-7106785) Published: 2026-02-25T13:37:03+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/future-bytes/episodes/699efb00d15b2c2a12396fbd Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6710bd164114798e63e10fe5/e/699efb00d15b2c2a12396fbd/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/future-bytes-7106785/episodes/040-ai-news-for-business-week-9 Duration seconds: 467 ## Resource Accenture now ties promotions to AI tool usage. Anthropic cuts model costs to one-fifth. Every enterprise surveyed plan to expand AI agents. Regulation is moving fast across US states. The risk in 2026 is no longer moving too fast. It’s standing still.  Highlights for week 9:   Accenture ties senior promotions to measurable AI tool usage   Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers near-flagship capability at one-fifth the former cost.  100% of surveyed enterprises plan to expand agentic AI this year   US states advance AI regulation as global adoption accelerates   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/future-bytes-7106785/episodes/040-ai-news-for-business-week-9/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-bytes-7106785/040-ai-news-for-business-week-9.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.