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How to read a week of AI news for your actual job

Skim launches, ignore the stock plot, and keep one thing you will try at the desk.

What you will learn

  • ✓Skim a news pile for tools you are allowed to use
  • ✓Ignore unnamed studies and job-apocalypse headlines
  • ✓Leave with one experiment, not twelve tabs

A week of AI news is mostly launches and demos. Here is how to pull one useful thing out of it for your job.

Aside. The robot does not get your badge. Your manager still reads the email with your name on it.

A 15-minute news pass

  1. Open two sources you already trust, not twelve
  2. For each launch: is this in a tool I already have, or a demo?
  3. Write one line: try / ignore / wait for IT
  4. Close the rest

If a headline needs a percentage with no method, it is not for your Friday experiment.

Packet

I may use these tools at work: [list].

Here are headlines I pasted:

[paste]

For each: TRY THIS WEEK / IGNORE / WAIT FOR IT.

One sentence. No career advice. No invented stats.

You are done when

You have one try/ignore/wait list dated this week.

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