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Windsurf’s Rise, Fall, and the Lessons for your Company’s AI Strategy AI Windsurf’s Rise, Fall, and the Lessons for your Company’s AI Strategy This post is not a discussion of tech; it is a comment on strategy. Your organisation’s decision about… 7 August 2025 Microsoft List the 40 Jobs Most at Risk of AI Disruption AI Microsoft List the 40 Jobs Most at Risk of AI Disruption Microsoft have just published a study that predicts the 40 jobs most likely to be disrupted by AI… 5 August 2025 post image AI ChatGPT’s Agent Mode is another Leap Forward – with risks ChatGPT’s new Agent Mode is another major leap forward in how AI is advancing, especially in the field… 24 July 2025 Creating an Agent to Check or Create Questionnaires Uncategorized Creating an Agent to Check or Create Questionnaires This is another post looking at the hot topic of Agents, building on the post from yesterday that… 22 July 2025 Creating a Data Checking Agent AI Creating a Data Checking Agent Agents are one of the key AI developments that is re-shaping the way we conduct business and processes. … 21 July 2025 Create an Instant ‘Data Dashboard’ in Claude AI Create an Instant ‘Data Dashboard’ in Claude In today’s Tip, I am going to show you how you can upload a data file to Claude… 19 July 2025 Unlocking the Future of Insights: A Must-Listen Interview with Liubov Ruchinskaya AI Unlocking the Future of Insights: A Must-Listen Interview with Liubov Ruchinskaya NewMR recently had the pleasure of hosting Liubov Ruchinskaya, Head of Strategy Analytics and Consumer Planning at Diageo… 17 July 2025 How AI Has Transformed My Story-Finding Method AI How AI Has Transformed My Story-Finding Method After more than 40 years in the research and insights world, I thought I had fine-tuned my approach… 29 June 2025 Exploring the Interaction of Language and ChatGPT Uncategorized Exploring the Interaction of Language and ChatGPT Ray Poynter, 28 June 2025 With Noriko Kishida (Japan), Tomoko Yoshida (Japan), Dangjaithawin (Orm) Anantachai (Thailand), and Seyo… 28 June 2025 Synthetic Data and Significance Tests: Why t-tests are Inappropriate and What to Do Instead Uncategorized Synthetic Data and Significance Tests: Why t-tests are Inappropriate and What to Do Instead You should not use standard t-test testing with synthetically boosted data. In this post I explain why and… 19 June 2025