#AI adoption
14 stories taggedAI adoption.
How a UK Construction Firm Got 11,000 Employees to Actually Use AI
Kier Group skipped the webinars and ran peer group 'prompt-a-thons' instead. The result: 40 percent of staff now use Microsoft Copilot daily, and one dyslexic site manager says it changed his working life.
Caterpillar Is Spending $100 Million to Retrain Its Workers for the AI Age
The construction and mining giant is moving AI from the pit to the office. Here is what its approach tells every business owner about the real cost of adopting AI.
What small businesses can learn from big companies getting AI wrong (and right)
Large corporations have spent billions figuring out where AI helps and where it flops. Small business owners can skip most of that expensive trial and error.
Most Companies Still Can't Point to AI Profits, McKinsey Finds
A survey of 1,719 business leaders finds confidence in AI is growing fast. Actual earnings from it, not so much.
How smart companies are keeping workers on side as AI reshapes their jobs
More than half of Americans fear AI will cost someone in their home a job. A handful of companies are trying a different approach, and it starts with telling the truth.
AI Was Meant to Win Us Over. New Data Shows It's Doing the Opposite.
From Pew Research surveys to Republican Party memos, the signals are stacking up: public trust in AI is falling, not rising, and the industry is finally starting to say so out loud.
Half of companies don't trust their own AI agents. Bad data is why.
A survey of 300 executives finds that most organisations are feeding AI agents less than half their company data, and it's costing them speed, accuracy, and confidence.
Banks Are Handing Their AI Future to a Handful of Tech Giants, Moody's Warns
The credit rating agency says the finance industry's rush to adopt AI is creating dangerous dependence on a small group of Silicon Valley companies, with outages and price hikes among the main risks.
AI Agents Are Silicon Valley's Biggest Bet. Almost Nobody Outside Tech Is Using Them.
Ten million weekly users sounds impressive until you compare it to the billion people using basic AI chat. A viral post from a veteran tech founder has sparked an uncomfortable conversation about why AI agents have failed to reach ordinary people.
AI Is Everywhere in R&D Labs. So Why Are Billions Still Going to Waste?
A new report finds that most companies are using AI to crunch numbers, not to make smarter calls. And that gap is costing them dearly.
Hollywood Is Already Using AI. The Question Is Who Admits It.
From a showrunner ordering her writers to use ChatGPT to Netflix paying $587 million for Ben Affleck's AI startup, the entertainment industry's relationship with artificial intelligence is more complicated than the public debate suggests.
Teens Are Over the AI Hype, and They're Not Shy About It
A growing share of young people use AI tools but genuinely dislike the technology. New polling and reporting suggest kids are far more skeptical of artificial intelligence than the industry expected.
Why AI Makes Individual Workers Faster But Leaves Whole Companies Behind
A researcher who studies how teams work says most organisations are fixing the wrong problem. Getting each person to use AI better does almost nothing if the team itself still works the old way.
Patreon Cuts 93 Jobs and Points to AI as the Reason Why
The creator-subscription platform is laying off one in five staff. Its CEO says AI has changed how the company builds products, and that refusing to adapt would mean bankruptcy within three years.