# Copy of ⚡️ Claude tried to blackmail a CEO Canonical: https://brew.new/templates/methods/copy-of-claude-tried-to-blackmail-a-ceo Brand: methods.wiki Category: newsletter ![Preview of Copy of ⚡️ Claude tried to blackmail a CEO](https://cdn.brew.new/email-preview-0e1e13d6-2445-468e-abdb-b0044cb6ad46-1788092492303.png) ## Email content May 17, 2026 | Read online ⚡️ Claude tried to blackmail a CEO Inside: Last week's AI, caught up in 5 ADVERTISE | PODCASTS | EXECUTIVES PASS | B2B TRAINING Hey Before today's stories — this is the one to act on: the AI Executive's Pass is live right now. We've been teasing this for a while, and it's finally here. One $199/year membership that bundles $11,000+ in AI tools and resources — Notion, beehiiv, ListKit, Make.com, Paperform, Intercom, a private GPT training session, and a LinkedIn growth consult. Launch pricing only runs until May 19, so if you've been on the fence, now's the time. Get the AI Executive Pass → AI didn't take the weekend off. Neither did we. Here's every move that mattered last week: top stories, both pods, and tools for you before you've had your second coffee. Five minutes. Done. 📰 Catch Up On Your Reading 1. OpenAI takes Apple to court OpenAI has filed suit against Apple in a high‑stakes dispute that could reshape AI distribution on iOS and redefine platform control. → Read the full issue 2. Claude now leads in B2B spend Anthropic's Claude has overtaken rivals in enterprise AI spending, signaling a sharp shift in where corporate budgets are flowing. → Read the full issue 3. OpenAI takes on Anthropic OpenAI is escalating its rivalry with Anthropic as competition intensifies across enterprise contracts and model performance. → Read the full issue 4. Claude tried to blackmail a CEO Anthropic revealed a troubling test case where Claude generated blackmail threats, raising fresh alarms over AI alignment and safeguards. → Read the full issue 5. 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Get the AI Executive Pass → 🎙️ Last Week's Podcasts Anthropic Blocked by Pentagon, Musk Powers Claude, GPT‑5.5 Goes Default — The Pentagon signs eight classified AI deals excluding Anthropic, Wall Street backs new enterprise arms from Anthropic and OpenAI, GPT‑5.5 Instant becomes ChatGPT's default with 52.5% fewer errors, Greg Brockman testifies in Musk's lawsuit, and SpaceX's Colossus 1 now runs Claude → Watch on YouTube The Hidden Cost of Manual Timesheets with Jason Li, CTO of Laurel — Jason Li explains how top law firms still track billable hours in six‑minute increments, why weekend time logging drains productivity, and how Laurel's AI platform aims to automate knowledge work's most outdated workflow → Watch on YouTube 🚀 From The AI Report Ready to go from AI consumer to AI operator? 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The Scandal File The $19 tripwire that torched a list A coaching brand front-loaded a $19 tripwire on cold traffic, then upsold twice before the buyer had used anything. Refunds hit 31%. Stripe flagged the account. The list stopped opening — 44% down in six weeks — because every email after the sale read like another pitch. The lesson: a tripwire that sells before it delivers isn't a funnel, it's a refund queue with better branding. Method of the Week · 041 The refund-to-copy loop Turn every refund request into next month's highest-converting ad. Four steps. You can run it today. 1. Capture the raw words. One required field on the refund form: "What did you expect that you didn't get?" No dropdowns. 2. Cluster weekly with an agent. Pipe answers into one prompt that groups them into 5 recurring expectation gaps. 3. Invert the biggest gap. The #1 complaint becomes the headline promise on the sales page. Verbatim, not paraphrased. 4. Ship it back into onboarding. Answer the gap in the first 48 hours after purchase. Refunds fall before the copy even runs. The full filed write-up — clustering prompt, form fields, and the done-for-you AI flow — lives inside Methods.wiki. Stolen Prompts Two you can paste right now Use case: turning support tickets into ad angles. Here are 40 support tickets. Group them into 5 recurring expectation gaps. For each gap, quote the 2 most emotional customer sentences verbatim, then write one 12-word ad hook using only their words. Use case: pressure-testing an offer before you spend on ads. Act as a skeptical buyer with this exact problem. Read my offer. List the 5 reasons you would not buy, ranked by how likely they are to stop the purchase. Then rewrite my first sentence to kill reason one. Members get the full chained versions, with the agent loop wired around them. Tool Drop Three verdicts, no sponsorships Clay — HOT · 9/10 Enrichment plus AI in one table. Replaces three tools and a VA, if you can survive the first week. Gumroad — WARM · 7/10 Still the fastest way to ship a $27 offer today. Still a terrible place to build a real backend. Generic AI SDR bots — COLD · 4/10 They book meetings with people who were never going to buy. The reply rate is a vanity metric. Filed stacks — which tools we actually wire together, and how — are inside the library. The Link Vault Worth your five minutes • The second order bump — the one-line upsell that outperforms a whole checkout redesign. • Why 98% open rates aren't on email — and what the operators moved to instead. • The ad factory loop — one brief in, forty tested variants out, no agency. • Cart abandonment without discounts — ask about the checkout, not the price. • The $7 front-end that funds cold traffic — the math, filed in full. Private Access · 50+ Methods Filed You just read the redacted version Members get the unredacted files: named brands, full funnels, the exact prompts and the flows already built. 50+ methods filed. New ones added weekly. Access is private. Every week you wait, someone on your competitor set is already running the play. Get inside Methods.wiki →You know you love us. XOXO — the filing clerk. P.S. Unsubscribe if you don't want us in your inbox anymore. 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