🤝 OpenAI Teams Up with Consulting Giants

Plus, Investor Loyalty in AI Is Dead

February 23, 2026

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Breaking News: OpenAI is teaming up with four consulting giants — BCG, McKinsey, Accenture, and Capgemini — to accelerate enterprise adoption of its new AI platform, OpenAI Frontier.

Get ready to dive into the latest happenings in AI.

📢 Today's Headline:

  • OpenAI Strikes Big Deal with Consultants!

  • Ex-Apple Team Launches Acme Weather!

  • OpenAI Backers Quietly Fund Anthropic Too!

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OpenAI just admitted what every enterprise buyer already knows: AI alone won’t fix your business.

  • Four consulting giants—BCG, McKinsey, Accenture, and Capgemini are now officially in OpenAI’s corner.

  • They’ll push OpenAI Frontier, a no-code platform for building AI agents, into corporate workflows.

  • Rival Anthropic already inked deals with Deloitte and Accenture, so this is a race for enterprise mindshare.

Big companies have been slow to adopt AI because ROI is fuzzy and culture change is hard. Consultants are the trusted middlemen who can make execs believe and pay.

✅ So what: This isn’t just about tech, it’s about who controls the narrative inside boardrooms. If consultants become the gatekeepers, OpenAI’s growth depends less on product features and more on how convincingly McKinsey sells them.

đź‘€ Watch for: Which industries bite first and whether consultants push AI as strategy, not just software.

Your weather app lies about knowing what happens hour by hour.

  • Acme Weather only shows forecasts it can actually get right. No fake hourly predictions. They focus on what'll happen today instead of pretending they know if it'll rain at 3:42pm.

  • Built by ex-Apple designers who worked on weather and health apps. Clean interface, no clutter, just the stuff you actually need to know.

  • The bet is simple: people want "should I bring an umbrella" not "there's a 37% chance of precipitation at 2:15pm." Less precision theater, more useful info.

This matters because weather apps have been stuck in the same pattern forever: cram in every data point, pretend hourly forecasts are accurate, overwhelm users. These folks are rethinking the basics.

âś… The move: If you care about product design, this is worth watching. When ex-Apple people strip something down to its essentials, they usually expose what everyone else got wrong. Weather forecasting has always had an accuracy problem dressed up as a features problem. Acme's betting that admitting limitations is better UX than fake confidence.

Try this: Download it and compare to your current weather app for a week. See which one actually helps you make decisions vs which one just throws numbers at you.

The money behind AI is showing its true colors: at least a dozen OpenAI investors are also backing Anthropic.

  • OpenAI is chasing a massive $100B round, while Anthropic just pulled in $30B.

  • Big names like Sequoia, Founders Fund, Iconiq, Insight Partners are writing checks to both.

  • Even BlackRock-linked funds joined Anthropic, despite a BlackRock exec sitting on OpenAI’s board.

In public markets, hedging bets is normal. But in AI, it means the same investors are shaping two rivals at once.

✅ So what: This isn’t about loyalty—it’s about controlling the future of AI no matter who wins. The real power shift is happening in boardrooms, not labs.

đź‘€ Watch for: Which investors push hardest for influence, and whether this dual-backing blurs the line between competition and collusion.

Try this now: Next time you see a flashy AI funding headline, check the investor list—odds are they’re betting on both sides.

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