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242 articles · last updated September 27, 2026 · written by Julia McCoy

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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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“AI consultant” might be the most abused job title on LinkedIn right now. Somewhere around 2023, everyone with

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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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Everyone wants to know if AI consulting is worth it. If you’re running a business and you’re considering

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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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Here’s a very real scenario playing out in marketing departments right now: One team creates 10 pieces of

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Here’s the thing nobody tells you when you start building with AI. The prompt you wrote on day

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I remember sitting in my office late one night at Express Writers, surrounded by spreadsheets of contractor invoices.

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Most articles about AI use cases read like somebody dumped a phone book on your desk. Forty examples,

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Every week in 2026, another wave of agentic AI enterprise news hits your inbox — a new agent

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Picture this. Your competitor just shipped three marketing campaigns this week. You shipped one this month. Both of

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Julia McCoy is a 10x author, entrepreneur, and trailblazer in AI adaption. As the founder and President of First Movers, she empowers work professionals to dominate in the AI revolution through her revolutionary educational platform: First Movers AI Labs.

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