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February 20, 2025

Build, Buy, or Wait: The Leader’s Guide to AI Adoption

Edmundo Ortega spends all day rethinking a company’s core workflows with AI. So we asked him when companies should build custom AI solutions and when they should buy off-the-shelf. That’s when he introduced a third option – neither.

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Greg Shove
Edmundo Ortega
5 mins
For companies
AI
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February 13, 2025

EY's Global Head of AI: Don’t rush to prove AI ROI

If you feel like you’re falling behind because you haven’t figured out how to make a bulletproof investment in AI, read on for John Thompson’s take on why you actually need to slow down and stop sweating the ROI.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
4 mins
For companies
AI
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February 3, 2025

AI is disrupting my dad

AI conversations tend to center around the impact on work - but what about the personal benefits?

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Greg Shove
Greg & Taylor
5 mins
For students
AI
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January 31, 2025

Agents are here: OpenAI's chaos vs. Microsoft's control

If you’re tired of hype without action when it comes to AI agents, you’re not alone. Here's our Lead AI Consultant, Chase's, no-BS take on what the big players’ agents are actually capable of.

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Greg Shove
Chase Ballard
7 mins
For students
AI
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September 28, 2024

Benchmarking Section’s AI Proficiency

We've talked a lot about the AI proficiency of the broader workforce - but is Section even walking the walk? We ran our own AI Proficiency Survey internally - here's how we did it, what we learned, and how we're measuring ROI.

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Greg Shove
Taylor Malmsheimer, Head of Strategy
5 mins
For students
AI
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January 28, 2025

ChatGPT o1: What’s cool, what’s hype, and what happens next

OpenAI just changed the LLM game with the release of ChatGPT o1. Here's what it means when it says it's "thinking", how to prompt it, and what this all means for the future.

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Greg Shove
Chase Ballard
8 mins
For students
AI
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May 24, 2025

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.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
5 mins
For companies
AI
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May 16, 2025

How to use AI microapps without compromising security

AI can now code you a custom ready-to-deploy application in sub-10 minutes, just by prompting it. Machine & Partners’ Edmundo Ortega walked us through the huge opportunity of these microapps – and the huge risks.

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Greg Shove
Section Staff
6 mins
For companies
AI

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