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Curated reports, tools, and guides that complement what your scan tells you. Open anything that catches your eye — these are the sources we go back to.

Community

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Y Combinator

Hacker News

The first place serious AI news surfaces. The comments are often more useful than the article — that's the point.

Ethan Mollick · Substack

One Useful Thing

A Wharton professor's running notes from teaching and researching with AI. Pragmatic, experiment-driven, and a steady antidote to both doom and utopia.

Substack

AI Snake Oil

Princeton researchers cutting through hype, calmly and rigorously. The grown-up newsletter — read this before believing the next viral claim.

r/LocalLLaMA

Where practitioners discuss new models, benchmarks, and tooling weekly. Technical-but-friendly and reliably a few months ahead of mainstream coverage.

Credentials

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Andrew Ng · Coursera

AI for Everyone

The literacy starting point — non-technical, plain-language, taught by the person who made modern ML approachable for everyone else. About four hours.

DeepLearning.AI · Coursera

Generative AI with Large Language Models

A deeper look at how LLMs actually work and how to use them well. Some technical comfort assumed, but pays the time back many times over. ~3 weeks.

Anthropic

Anthropic Academy

Free hands-on lessons on prompting, tool use, and building real things with Claude. Short modules; one a week puts you in the top 5% of practitioners by quarter-end.

DeepLearning.AI

ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers

A free one-hour short course on getting useful work out of LLMs through clear prompts. Best ROI per minute in the whole AI education landscape.

Microsoft Learn

Microsoft AI Fundamentals (AI-900)

Free learning path culminating in a recognised entry-level certification. Light on theory, generous on Azure AI services. Real CV signal without a year-long commitment.

University of Helsinki · MinnaLearn

Elements of AI

A free, fully online intro to AI from one of the universities that quietly does the best AI education in Europe. Designed for the curious non-engineer.

Toolbox

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Anthropic

Claude

A conversational AI tuned for careful reasoning, writing, and code. Often the stronger choice when nuance, instruction-following, or long context matters.

OpenAI

ChatGPT

The model most people meet AI through. A solid default for everyday tasks — brainstorming, summarising, drafting — and a good first stop if you're new.

Perplexity AI

Perplexity

AI-powered search with citations. Replaces "Google, then read three blue links" when you want a synthesised answer you can verify.

Google

NotebookLM

Upload your own documents and ask questions of just that corpus. Excellent for briefing prep, literature reviews, and "what does our policy actually say?"

Anysphere

Cursor

An AI-native code editor built on VS Code. The single biggest productivity bump available right now if you write any code at all.

Granola

An AI notepad for meetings that listens, transcribes, and turns your sparse notes into structured minutes. Calmer than a recording bot — nothing joins your call.

Otter.ai

Live meeting transcription with AI-generated summaries and action items. Frees you to be present in the conversation instead of typing notes.

Zapier

Zapier AI Actions

Wire AI calls into the workflows you already run — Slack, Google Sheets, your CRM. The fastest path from "I should use AI here" to actually doing it.

Reports

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World Economic Forum · 2025

Future of Jobs Report 2025

The World Economic Forum's annual look at which roles grow, shrink, and reshape — and which skills become essential. The canonical "is my job changing?" reference for the next five years.

McKinsey & Company · 2024

The State of AI

Annual survey of how organisations are actually using AI, where they're capturing value, and where the gap between ambition and outcome remains widest. Useful counterweight to vendor decks.

McKinsey Global Institute · 2023

The Economic Potential of Generative AI

Estimates the share of work activities AI is likely to automate or augment across 850 occupations. The defensible number you cite when a board paper needs one.

Pew Research Center · 2023

Which U.S. Workers Are More Exposed to AI on Their Jobs

Survey data on how American workers think about AI in their own jobs — anxiety, optimism, and where they expect change to land first. Grounded in real people, not strategy frameworks.

Stanford HAI · 2024

AI Index Report

The annual benchmark book from Stanford. Model capabilities, costs, policy, hiring trends — everything you'd want to cite, with the chart you'd want to show.

National Bureau of Economic Research · 2023

Generative AI at Work

One of the first rigorous studies showing measurable productivity gains from generative AI in real workplaces (call centres). The empirical evidence base, not the hype.

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