GPT-5 drops in weeks. This is the iPhone-2007 Summer for AI. We’re moving from the Blackberry era to the final form factor, and one of the biggest releases is rumoured in July.

Here’s the blunt truth: Unless you’re dedicating your career to frontier research, twenty minutes a day of paper-reading won’t change much. Most of us will be users. Spend that time using AI, talking to LLMs, wiring AI into your work or Slack, and double-checking outputs.

That’s why we show you your payment performance. It gives you a baseline. If the numbers are off, it’s not just your clients. It’s your process. They show if what you’re doing is working. And if it’s not, PayStorm helps you fix it.

Folks in San Francisco are out here building AI agents but still press “Down” on the 20th floor because they think it tells the elevator to "come down to me.” It means you want to go down. Ask your AI agent about it.

You might hear a lot about DSO. What does it really mean for your business? We break down why payments get delayed and how you can improve without extra work and how PayStorm helps on that. Swipe through for practical tips on managing receivables.

Knowledge has lost its price, probably. Once you've seen bread double in price every week, you stop trusting price tags fast. I feel that same shock whenever ChatGPT spits out an answer. Ideas that took years to learn now arrive for free, in seconds.

Ready for Chrome to become irrelevant? OpenAI's chat-native browser is weeks away from shipping. AWS launched an AI agent bazaar and the UK expanded SME lending by £500m. Surplus Weekly breaks down what this means for founders. Read the full brief: buff.ly/g6dpHur

What is one thing worth waiting in line for?

Any idea what this AI gold rush will bring to humanity?

Invoice rich, bank poor. Why are we sitting on $20k in outstanding invoices while stressing about a $3k expense?