What the Best Business AI Users Are Doing Different
October 2, 2026
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5 min readWhat the Best Business AI Users Are Doing Different
The gap between companies that have established ROI from AI and those still experimenting is now wide enough to read like a roadmap. According to KPMG's Q3 Pulse Survey of more than 2,100 senior leaders across 20 countries, the organizations seeing real returns are building model routers, formalizing data sovereignty strategies, and treating the management layer above AI as more important than the models themselves. Meanwhile, Meta had its best stock month since November 2022 on the back of Muse's early success, Anthropic is pushing to get its IPO out before Thanksgiving, and SpaceX launched four Google TPUs into orbit as a first step toward orbital data centers.
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What you'll learn
- 1 What the Best Business AI Users Are Doing Different
- 2 (00:00) **Episode Intro** - Host sets up the core thesis: leading AI adopters are building model routers, data sovereignty strategies, and robust AI management layers
- 3 (01:07) **Meta's Muse Success and Market Response** - MetaStock delivered its best month since November 2022, up 27% in September, adding half a trillion in market cap
- 4 (02:31) **Anthropic's IPO Timeline Firms Up** - Anthropic aims to go public before Thanksgiving, with investor meetings set for late October and marketing beginning the week of November 9th
- 5 (04:19) **Trump's Positive Impression of Dario Amodei** - Time magazine interview reveals Trump came away from a two-hour dinner with a nuanced view of Anthropic's CEO
- 6 (05:19) **Trump's Personal AI Use with Grok** - A staffer revealed Trump spent hours talking to Grok after meeting Elon Musk, asking about his presidential legacy and Venezuela strategy
- 7 (06:06) **SpaceX Launches AI Chips Into Space** - Falcon 9 successfully placed a satellite containing four Google TPUs into orbit as first test for orbital data center network
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Show Notes
What separates businesses getting real returns from AI from those still experimenting? New KPMG research reveals how leading organizations are scaling agents, managing multiple models, and connecting AI spending to business value—with ambitions increasingly extending beyond efficiency to revenue growth. In the headlines: Meta’s Muse-fueled rally, Anthropic’s push for a pre-Thanksgiving IPO, and Google’s first AI chips in orbit.
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