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Most leaders are thinking about AI all wrong

AI agents are cool, but not for the reasons you’ve heard
You’ve seen articles and flashy demos and tons of promises about the imminent future of agents. But how much of that is actually possible and how much is hype? Lutra AI co-founder and CEO, Jiquan Ngiam sat down with us to suss it out.

AI hallucinations aren’t a big deal
It’s hard not to hear that AI hallucinates and not have a few alarm bells go off. But ‘hallucinations’ is a loaded word. Machine & Partners’ Edmundo Ortega is back to explain why they’re nothing to worry about.

Is Deep Research worth $200 a month?
With new AI tools coming out all the time, it’s hard to know which ones are worth investing in. So here’s our lead AI consultant’s framework for whether you should shell out for Deep Research or not.

AI is good enough, the humans need help
Newsflash if you’re waiting for AI to get better before you invest: It’s already pretty good, it’s the people using it that need to get a lot better – and fast. Greg is taking over this week’s newsletter to show you why.

AI Agents Explained: The clear, no-hype definition
“Agents” have become one of the biggest hyped and most misused terms in AI. So here’s the real definition from someone who builds AI solutions for a living.

There’s plenty of AI ROI - if you’re willing to work for it
A theme emerged in the chat of this year's AI:ROI Conference: 11 experts shared their value-adding AI strategies but people were just looking for magic formulas. Here were the biggest insights we think they overlooked.

Your team doesn’t know what to use AI for
Change management is likely not the biggest bottleneck to your AI deployment anymore: Our latest AI Proficiency Report shows that people want to use it, but they can’t figure out what it should be used for.

SMB leaders have an AI adoption problem
In public, they’re touting AI proficiency. In private, they’re not sure what generative AI even is.





