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By the time this article gets published, something will have changed and this list might be out of date. AI and AI tools are changing so quickly that any specific advice on what tools you should consider first as you move to implement AI is not very useful. To pretend otherwise is than useful.

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That said… what follows is a vendor-neutral

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few years, you know that there’s an awful lot of anxiety out there about AI. It’s especially acute around work, jobs, and employment. Will AI destroy my job or make the skills I’ve developed over twenty years redundant? Will it cut my hours or turn me into a drone?

Imagine that a dental hygienist finds a free AI transcription tool that turns her appointment notes into clean summaries in seconds. It saves her 20 minutes per patient – almost 3 hours every day. Nobody told her to ask if the tool is HIPAA compliant, so she doesn’t. Her employer never approved the tool and

If you run a small business and you’ve spent any time at all near the internet in the past two years, you’ve absorbed two completely contradictory messages about artificial intelligence.

The first message: AI is about to change everything, immediately, for everyone, and if you’re not “leveraging” it right now you’re

In January, Teradata’s CEO, Steve McMillan, sent an internal memo to the Company’s roughly 5,100 employees that there would be no annual salary increases in 2026. The budget was being redirected toward artificial intelligence. “We will fund this AI investment by reallocating the budget from 2026 annual salary adjustments,” he wrote. Employees

If you’ve attended a webinar, opened a trade publication, or sat through a vendor pitch in the last two years, you’ve heard some version of the same claim: artificial intelligence will transform your accounting practice. It will automate your workflows, eliminate manual data entry, free your staff for advisory work, and position

Whether it looks like it or not from the outside, dthe rules around AI are being written right now by Congress, by state legislatures, the courts, lobbyists, and the AI titan firms. Here’s what small business owners need to understand before the next set of deadlines arrives.

Pick any ten small business owners in America and

The administration’s long-awaited Executive Order on “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security” was finally signed this week. This followed an intense bout of behind-the-scenes infighting over the last few weeks (and, presumably) months.

While the White House is hailing

Your bookkeeper gets an email from you. Your name is in the “From” field. Your email address is right there. The message is professional, well-written, and urgent: a vendor needs to be paid today, or the job stops. Please wire $4,200 to this account number.

The email is fake. You never sent it. But your bookkeeper doesn’t know that yet.

This is not

The numbers powering the AI revolution are extraordinary by any measure, and that may be the problem. A recent analysis in the Financial Times by economist Joachim Klement does something deceptively simple: it takes the AI industry’s own growth projections and runs them through a