200 Messages Nobody Flagged. The FSU Shooter Asked ChatGPT for Help. Nobody Picked Up the Phone.

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200 messages. That is how many prompts the FSU shooter sent to ChatGPT before walking onto a campus and killing two people. Two hundred messages asking about self-worth. About firearms. About what happens to mass shooters afterward. And three minutes before bullets started flying, the last question was about how to arm a shotgun.

Florida's attorney general just launched a full investigation into OpenAI. And whether you love AI or fear it, this is the conversation we need to have right now. Because nobody at OpenAI picked up the phone. Nobody flagged it. Nobody said hey, maybe 200 messages about guns, mass shootings, and self-destruction should trigger something other than a helpful response.

We are in the middle of the biggest technological revolution since fire. And some could argue that fire was about intelligence too. Us understanding how to control it. And in a lot of cases, we could not. That is where we are with artificial intelligence right now. The companies building these tools are not thinking about us. That is not malice. That is just math. We are the users. They are the builders. Two worlds moving at very different speeds.

CoreWeave just signed two deals in 48 hours that would make your head spin. Deal one: Meta committed $21 billion through 2032 for GPU cloud capacity. That is not a typo. Deal two announced today: Anthropic, the company that built the system behind these words, signed a multi-year agreement with CoreWeave to power cloud at production scale.

Nine of the top 10 AI providers now use CoreWeave's platform. The only holdout is Elon at xAI. CoreWeave started as a crypto mining operation in 2017. They bought Nvidia GPUs to mine Ethereum. When crypto margins compressed, they pivoted. Now they are the backbone of the entire AI industry. $6.6 billion in contractor revenue. Guidance for $12 billion in 2026 alone. A crypto mining company became the plumbing of the future.

Here is why that matters for us. For the person watching on a lunch break. For the plumber thinking about adding AI to the front desk. For the hairstylist wondering if voice AI is worth the investment. All of this infrastructure spending means the tools we use get faster, cheaper, more reliable. The highway is being paved in both directions. The question is whether you are going to drive on it or watch other people pass you by.

Anthropic launched managed agents this week. Most people missed it. Here is why it is a big deal in plain English. If a business wants to build an AI agent, something that can actually do work on its own, they have to build all the scaffolding around it. The security. The permissions. The error handling. The infrastructure. It takes months. It takes an engineering team. It takes money most small businesses do not have.

Managed agents removes all of that. Eight cents per runtime hour plus whatever the model costs. That is it. What used to take months now takes days. Notion is already using it. Rakuten. Asana. Real companies shipping real products built on this platform.

The infrastructure is being built so that the plumber, the hairstylist, the real estate agent, the single mom running a side business, all of us can employ agents that used to require a team of engineers. That is not a future prediction. That is the direction the money is flowing right now. And as far as HonorElevate.com, we are building these out for people as we speak.

Perplexity just hit $450 million in annual recurring revenue. That is a 50% jump in a single month. Not a year. A month. They went from $16 million two years ago to $450 million. And they did it by pivoting from search to agents. From answering questions to doing the work.

Their latest move is a tax agent. You upload your documents. They ask you a few follow-up questions. Match your inputs to actual IRS forms. Draft your return. Seventeen bucks a month. The average American pays hundreds of dollars to have someone else do their taxes. Or spends entire weekends fighting with TurboTax. Now an AI agent does it for the price of a lunch.

A quarter of American workers say they plan to use AI for taxes this year. That is double from last year. The shift is not coming. The shift already happened. We have not finished counting the bodies.

Anthropic builds the brains. CoreWeave builds the body. Perplexity shows what happens when you put them together and point them at a real problem. The AI race is no longer about who has the best model. It is about who can put models to work in the real world. Who can turn intelligence into action. Who can replace a $225,000 marketing stack over a weekend, which is exactly what happened internally at Perplexity.

Companies that win will not be the ones with the biggest models. They will be the ones with the best plumbing. The best infrastructure to give a powerful brain hands and feet. That is the game now.

ActivTrak released their 2026 workplace report and the numbers are brutal. Focus efficiency dropped to 60%. That is a three-year low. The share of work time spent in uninterrupted concentration is cratering. And the cause is directly correlated with AI tool proliferation.

The more AI tools a team adopts, the less actual deep work gets done. Think about the irony. We built tools to make us more productive and the tools themselves are destroying our ability to concentrate. That is what happens when you adopt AI like you are at a buffet. You grab everything that looks good and then you cannot move.

The fix is not fewer tools. The fix is fewer, better tools. Companies that consolidated to three or fewer well-integrated AI platforms reported higher focus time and better output. Three or fewer is the number. So if you are a small business owner and you have got six AI subscriptions you barely use, cancel four of them. Find the one or two that actually move the needle and go deep. Stop browsing the buffet. Sit down and eat. If you want my help, give me a call.

Therapy chatbot bans are picking up speed across the country. Maine just sent a bill to the governor that prohibits the clinical use of AI in mental health therapy. Missouri had a similar ban move through their legislature with a $10,000 penalty for violations. Illinois has so many AI bills floating around that the state literally formed a committee just to sort through them all.

Here is my take. AI should not be your therapist. Period. A language model generating statistically likely responses is not the same as having a human being who spent years learning how to hold space for another human being. However, AI can be incredible at the administration side of mental health care. Scheduling. Intake forms. Follow-up reminders. Insurance paperwork. The stuff that burns therapists out and keeps patients waiting. The problem is when we conflate the tool with the treatment. AI is the hammer. It is great at nails. But do not use it on a human heart.

Microsoft committed $10 billion to Japan's AI infrastructure through 2029. That includes training a million engineers by 2030. Japan is quietly becoming a major AI compute hub. If you are thinking about international business, the corridor is opening fast.

News Corp signed with Meta to let them use content from the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post for AI training. That is on top of the deal they already gave to OpenAI. The news industry is selling its body to the machines. Whether that is smarter or suicidal depends on which decade you are looking at.

Samsung Studio acquired Locally AI, which means mobile, native, on-device AI is about to get significantly better. Running models on your phone without sending data to anyone else's server. That is a privacy play and it is moving faster than most people realize.

Shopify dropped an official AI toolkit that works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and VS Code. AI agents can now directly manage your Shopify store. Bulk SEO updates. Discount applications. Product image swaps. Real changes executed through natural language. If you run any commerce business and you are still manually updating product descriptions one at a time, the game just changed. One person with an AI agent can now do the work of an entire operations team. That is not dramatic. That is Shopify building the bridge and saying walk across it.

The Anchor

The distance between where we are and where this technology is going closes every single week. Not every year. Every week. This week alone the infrastructure got bigger. The tools got more accessible. The agents got more capable. The regulators got more serious. The workplace got more complicated. And the opportunity just got wider.

We are in it. We are not watching it. We are not reading about it. We are actually living inside the singularity. And every single one of us has a choice. Use these tools to build something. This is for everyone. Not just the boardroom. Not just the Bay Area. Not just Silicon Valley. Not just for the people who can afford a developer. But all of us. The plumber. The hairstylist. The veteran. The single mom. The person watching this right now thinking, is this really for me.

It is. Absolutely. And we are building this together.

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