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On the morning of September 4, I opened ChatGPT to try GPT-6 Astra. It wasn’t there. OpenAI had

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Every script my AI clone has read on camera this past year came from one side of the

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Air Canada once tried to blame its own chatbot in front of a tribunal. The bot had told

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On July 9, 2024, Sarah Franklin, the CEO of an HR software company called Lattice, posted on LinkedIn

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In 1984, Warner Books put a red hardcover in stores with a line on the cover nobody had

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Choosing an AI certification course in 2026 feels a bit like standing in the cereal aisle. Hundreds of

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A woman messaged me last month to ask whether she should sell her house. She works in accounts

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AI consulting for small business used to be a niche service for companies with cash to burn. In

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We are on the verge of something extraordinary: humanity’s final invention. That invention is Artificial General Intelligence, and

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Barna Group dropped a stat this year that stopped me cold: 48% of practicing Christians say they would

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Everyone’s abuzz about the future of AI and human productivity. Whether you manage a team, work on one,

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In March, the ARC Prize Foundation released a test where untrained humans solved 100% of the environments. The

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MIT analyzed 300 enterprise AI deployments and found that 95% delivered zero measurable return. Billions invested. Nothing on

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Here’s the truth nobody wants to say out loud. Your website is no longer the only place people

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You have ChatGPT open in one tab. Claude in another. Your CRM sitting idle. Your email platform waiting.

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Let me start with the uncomfortable truth most AI vendors won’t tell you. Almost everyone trying to cut

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Julia McCoy

CEO and Founder, First Movers

Julia McCoy is the CEO and founder of First Movers and the first YouTuber to hand her channel to an AI clone. She sold her 100-person content agency in 2021, has written 10+ books, and now builds AI systems for founders who want their time back.

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