AI Strategist & Enablement Architect | Helping teams turn AI into everyday impact. Culture change, productivity, and responsible adoption.
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Considering a career pivot because of AI? UMD’s Smith School has a free certificate that covers both: how AI is reshaping marketing, finance, and supply chains, and how to job hunt, negotiate, or go independent in that market.
#AI #FreeTraining #Careers
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Anthropic studied its own hiring: junior technical hires fell from 27% to 9%, while agents logged 6x the hours of their supervisors.
If AI takes the entry-level work, where do tomorrow’s senior engineers come from?
#AI #FutureOfWork
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GitHub’s Agentic AI Business Professional exam is in beta: 80% off while seats last.
Built for PMs and analysts, not developers. No deep coding, but hands-on: custom agents, agentic workflows, human-in-the-loop oversight.
#AI #GitHub #Certification
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CodersArts shipped 10 AI agents to production over 14 months: “building an agent demo takes an afternoon.” Surviving production meant unlearning most of what the demo taught.
#AI #Agents
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Oracle’s Agentic AI Foundations Associate certification exam is free. The 6+ hour learning path covers agent reasoning patterns, LangChain, MCP, multi-agent systems, and guardrails.
#FreeTraining #AI #AgenticAI #Certification
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Geoffrey Huntley’s warning to engineering managers: if you don’t make time for your team to learn AI, “you’re setting them up to be replaced.”
A company paying for tokens is the closest thing to free tuition right now. Use it.
#AI #Leadership
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Andrew Ng: AI doom is “more science fiction than science.” The real risks are engineering problems.
Notice where the fear lands: Chinese open-weight models. Cheaper models squeeze frontier labs’ margins. Fear is a good way to shut down competition.
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Accenture now funds just $29/month per person for Claude. Some staff were spending $1,000.
The bigger question: why is client work running on Accenture’s AI instead of the client’s? That’s a governance gap, not just a budget one.
#AI #AIGovernance
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Mark Cuban: The next big AI job is wiring AI into 33M US small businesses with no CTO.
Agreed, but that's only part of the story. Who owns it when the AI gets something wrong?
#AI #SmallBusiness #AIGovernance
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Most people judge AI by the wrong version of it.
OpenAI’s free voice mode fumbles simple questions. Top-tier Codex can restructure a whole codebase in an hour.
Same “AI,” completely different conclusions.
#AI
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Bain surveyed 951 companies. 37% aimed to cut costs by 11 to 20% with AI, but nearly 40% of those who measured landed under 10%. And 90% are raising AI budgets anyway.
Bain’s take: the problem is how organizations run AI, not the tech.
#AI #AIAdoption
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Every control the US placed on advanced AI chips, Moonshot reportedly routed around to train Kimi K3: rented compute abroad, servers stitched across sites. I wonder, can the diffusion of technology actually be stopped, or only slowed?
#AI #Semiconductors
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Google and Kaggle launched a free 5-day hands-on course on practical agentic AI workflows and multi-agent system design. Dive into agent development with this intensive guide.
#AI #AgenticAI #FreeCourse
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If a data cert is on your radar, Microsoft Fabric Data Days is one of the best free routes: attend the sessions and you can earn a 100% voucher for DP-600, DP-700, or DP-800. Free training + a free exam is a great deal.
#Microsoft #Fabric #Certification
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Microsoft is overhauling its certification landscape. Six exams retiring in 2026, nine new ones launching. AI-102, AI-900, AZ-204, AZ-500, DP-100 all going away by July 31. Replacements are already in beta or coming soon.
#Microsoft #Azure
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97% of tech execs say autonomous AI is essential, but 45% had a data breach last year from unauthorized AI tools. We're building fast and governing slow. The gap between adoption and oversight is now a real business risk.
#AIGovernance #AIAdoption
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Copilot Cowork drops later this month.
We're moving from AI that answers questions to AI that executes work across your emails, files, and calendar, with checkpoints. Built on Anthropic's Claude. Inside your M365.
#Copilot #AIAgents #Microsoft365
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Execs think employees are excited about AI. Data says otherwise.
96% of execs feel positive about AI.
For individual contributors, that drops to 63%.
The gap isn’t technical. It’s emotional.
Solve it with transparency, co-design, and real upskilling.
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AI adoption is exploding (93%), but real AI governance? Just 7%.
If you’re scaling AI without clear guardrails, you’re not innovating; you’re gambling.
Responsible AI needs to be a business capability, not an afterthought.
#AIGovernance #ResponsibleAI #DigitalTransformation