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  • AI’s Growing Up: Export Curbs, Agent Security, and Token Economics

    AI’s Growing Up: Export Curbs, Agent Security, and Token Economics
    Jun 16 2026
    In today’s episode of AI in Flow, Claire and Peter unpack a packed roundup that shows how quickly AI is maturing—and getting messier. They cover mounting pressure on US export restrictions affecting Anthropic’s newest models, the enterprise risk of fragmented model availability across regions, and why vendor security posture is becoming as important as model performance. They also dig into a lawsuit over Claude Max usage limits and what it signals about opaque AI subscription pricing.Plus: Meta’s CTO calls its Applied AI reshuffle “atrocious” as the company simultaneously pushes AI Mode into Facebook; HCLTech backs Sarvam AI in a major bet on sovereign frontier models; Saviynt launches intent-aware, runtime authorisation for AI agents; Darktrace reports a surge of cyber incidents in professional sports; and Dell warns tokens are becoming a core P&L line—making token routing and model tiering essential. Finally, Jefferies flags the near-term revenue tension in Wipro’s AI pivot as services shift from time-and-materials to outcomes.

    About Six & Flow

    Six & Flow is a digital transformation consultancy helping businesses adapt, grow, and thrive in a fast-changing world. We specialise in AI, CRM, and revenue operations, blending strategy, technology, and creativity to deliver measurable impact. From scaling startups to global enterprises, we partner with ambitious teams to unlock growth through smart automation, customer-centric marketing, and forward-thinking sales enablement. Learn more at sixandflow.com.

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    9 min
  • AI Resilience: Export Controls, Vendor Risk, and the New AI Stack

    AI Resilience: Export Controls, Vendor Risk, and the New AI Stack
    Jun 15 2026
    Claire and Peter unpack a day of stories with one clear through-line: resilience. Meta’s AI workforce overhaul shows how messy organisational change can get even with massive capex behind it. The U.S. move to restrict Anthropic’s newest models for non‑U.S. users signals a new kind of export control—one that can break global AI roadmaps overnight—pushing firms toward multi-model strategies and portability. They also cover China’s accelerating shift to domestic GPUs as Nvidia fades from its market, why investors are piling into the wider AI hardware supply chain, and the surge in seven-figure Chief AI Officer packages in banking. Plus: courts tightening sanctions over hallucinated legal filings, China’s sweeping university course reshuffle to feed AI talent pipelines, and expanding defence cooperation in AI and autonomy. The takeaway for leaders: plan now for disruption across people, platforms, policy, and governance—because AI in Flow is getting more powerful, more political, and more operationally complex all at once.

    About Six & Flow

    Six & Flow is a digital transformation consultancy helping businesses adapt, grow, and thrive in a fast-changing world. We specialise in AI, CRM, and revenue operations, blending strategy, technology, and creativity to deliver measurable impact. From scaling startups to global enterprises, we partner with ambitious teams to unlock growth through smart automation, customer-centric marketing, and forward-thinking sales enablement. Learn more at sixandflow.com.

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    9 min
  • When AI Access Gets Switched Off

    When AI Access Gets Switched Off
    Jun 14 2026
    In today’s episode of AI in Flow, Claire and Peter break down a major shock to the AI ecosystem: Anthropic suspending access to its newest models worldwide after a US export-control order—signalling that restrictions can now target the model itself, not just chips or hardware. They unpack what this means for businesses building on frontier providers, from dependency mapping and fallback plans to open-source or on‑prem options. Plus: Nvidia’s push to sell Vera Arm-based server CPUs to Chinese cloud customers amid ongoing GPU export limits, KPMG retracting an agentic AI report over AI-generated inaccuracies, the Financial Stability Board’s new guidance on responsible AI in finance, growing political backlash to AI data-centre buildouts, and why US corporate AI hiring is skewing senior—raising concerns about the long-term talent pipeline.

    About Six & Flow

    Six & Flow is a digital transformation consultancy helping businesses adapt, grow, and thrive in a fast-changing world. We specialise in AI, CRM, and revenue operations, blending strategy, technology, and creativity to deliver measurable impact. From scaling startups to global enterprises, we partner with ambitious teams to unlock growth through smart automation, customer-centric marketing, and forward-thinking sales enablement. Learn more at sixandflow.com.

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    8 min
  • AI Gets Accountable: Courts, Safety Lawsuits, and the Rising Cost of Compute

    AI Gets Accountable: Courts, Safety Lawsuits, and the Rising Cost of Compute
    Jun 12 2026
    Claire and Peter break down a packed day in AI: a Munich court rules Google can be held liable for false claims in AI Overviews, setting a major precedent for AI-generated summaries in search. They also cover a whistleblower-style lawsuit alleging xAI’s Grok lacked adequate safeguards, and a heartbreaking case claiming ChatGPT reinforced suicidal ideation—raising the bar for crisis protocols, monitoring, and duty of care in conversational systems. On the business side, AI data-centre demand is driving sharp RAM and memory price increases, forcing CIOs and CFOs to revisit budgets and build-versus-buy decisions. The episode also tracks enterprise momentum with TCS partnering with Anthropic, Kyndryl launching AI agent orchestration with governance, and Pine Labs proposing guardrailed agentic payments via UPI. Plus: Google talent fallout tied to defence AI work, Jaguar Land Rover’s factory drones speeding inspections, and Adobe’s leadership turbulence despite growing AI-first revenue.

    About Six & Flow

    Six & Flow is a digital transformation consultancy helping businesses adapt, grow, and thrive in a fast-changing world. We specialise in AI, CRM, and revenue operations, blending strategy, technology, and creativity to deliver measurable impact. From scaling startups to global enterprises, we partner with ambitious teams to unlock growth through smart automation, customer-centric marketing, and forward-thinking sales enablement. Learn more at sixandflow.com.

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    9 min
  • AI Gets Cheaper, Agents Start Paying, and Regulation Tightens

    AI Gets Cheaper, Agents Start Paying, and Regulation Tightens
    Jun 11 2026
    In today’s episode of AI in Flow, Claire and Peter unpack a market-wide shift from benchmark bragging rights to hard business fundamentals. OpenAI is reportedly weighing significant token price cuts as enterprise buyers scrutinise costs and competition heats up. Visa’s collaboration with OpenAI pushes AI from assistant to actor, enabling agent-initiated purchases—raising new questions around controls, liability, fraud, and chargebacks. Anthropic reverses a policy that quietly degraded Claude for some frontier-development users and commits to making safety interventions visible, while also proposing tougher U.S. rules for frontier models, including pre-deployment testing and incident reporting. Plus: Oracle’s massive data-centre capex plans and what they signal about infrastructure constraints, ongoing market jitters around AI margins, a lawsuit alleging retaliation over Grok safety concerns, and Canada’s proposed Digital Safety Act adding pressure for safety-by-design and clearer labelling.

    About Six & Flow

    Six & Flow is a digital transformation consultancy helping businesses adapt, grow, and thrive in a fast-changing world. We specialise in AI, CRM, and revenue operations, blending strategy, technology, and creativity to deliver measurable impact. From scaling startups to global enterprises, we partner with ambitious teams to unlock growth through smart automation, customer-centric marketing, and forward-thinking sales enablement. Learn more at sixandflow.com.

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    8 min
  • Gated Frontier Models, India’s AI Buildout, and Healthcare Breakthroughs

    Gated Frontier Models, India’s AI Buildout, and Healthcare Breakthroughs
    Jun 10 2026
    Claire and Peter break down a packed day in AI: Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 with a “policy-tier” approach that routes sensitive prompts to a less capable model, raising new governance questions for enterprises. India emerges as a key AI hub with Meta and Reliance’s planned 168MW renewable-powered data centre, while regulators tighten expectations—led by the Reserve Bank of India’s board-level AI cyber risk gap assessments and signals of a dedicated national AI law. In the US, community pushback grows as Mississippi residents sue over noise and vibration linked to turbine-powered AI infrastructure, alongside renewed investor scrutiny on AI unit economics and payback. The episode closes with tangible health wins—AI-assisted retinal screening for pregnant women across Africa and India, and an AI-designed pan-sarbecovirus DNA vaccine entering its first human study—plus a look at SpaceX’s AI narrative and the speculative idea of space-based compute.

    About Six & Flow

    Six & Flow is a digital transformation consultancy helping businesses adapt, grow, and thrive in a fast-changing world. We specialise in AI, CRM, and revenue operations, blending strategy, technology, and creativity to deliver measurable impact. From scaling startups to global enterprises, we partner with ambitious teams to unlock growth through smart automation, customer-centric marketing, and forward-thinking sales enablement. Learn more at sixandflow.com.

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    8 min
  • IPOs, Orbital Data Centres, and Apple’s Agentic Turn

    IPOs, Orbital Data Centres, and Apple’s Agentic Turn
    Jun 9 2026
    Claire and Peter unpack a day of signals that the AI race is shifting from “better models” to control of infrastructure, distribution, and trust. Reuters reports OpenAI has confidentially filed for a US IPO—potentially as soon as September—prompting questions about public-market pressure, vendor concentration risk, and changing enterprise terms. They also explore Elon Musk’s SpaceX “AI1” concept for an Nvidia-powered data-centre satellite and what orbital compute could (eventually) mean for AI capacity. On policy and supply chains, US senators push to tighten chip-export loopholes, while procurement teams face rising compliance and sourcing complexity. Apple’s WWDC announcements bring a major Siri overhaul, on-device models, Private Cloud Compute, and Gemini integration—raising urgent considerations for enterprise device policy and MDM controls. Plus: hyperscalers locking in long-term power and capacity, Meta funding data-centre workforce training, new observability for AI coding tools, AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery, and a study showing GPT-4.5 can convincingly pass as human—making verification and provenance more critical than ever.

    About Six & Flow

    Six & Flow is a digital transformation consultancy helping businesses adapt, grow, and thrive in a fast-changing world. We specialise in AI, CRM, and revenue operations, blending strategy, technology, and creativity to deliver measurable impact. From scaling startups to global enterprises, we partner with ambitious teams to unlock growth through smart automation, customer-centric marketing, and forward-thinking sales enablement. Learn more at sixandflow.com.

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    11 min