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  1. AI for Business: AI and cognitive engagement

    The basics on how to leverage cognitive engagement and AI to deliver value for your customers.

    Ferdia Kenny
    May 7, 2025
    • Product
    • Product Design
    • Product Management
    • Artificial Intelligence
  2. Ofcom’s Protection of Children Codes - Happy Birthday to me 🎂

    We can do it. We can make the internet a safer place for us and our children. It’s about time big tech stopped saying it can’t be done.

    Sami Birnbaum
    May 2, 2025
    • Compliance
    • User Experience
    • Product
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  3. Design’s strategic value is alive and well: More lessons from SXSW

    Design’s strategic value is evolving, not disappearing. At SXSW 2025, we heard from industry leaders on why and how designers are shaping the future of product and technology.

    Dawn Delatte
    May 2, 2025
    • Product
    • Design
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Strategy
  4. AI for Business: AI and cognitive insight

    The basics on how to leverage Cognitive Insights and AI to deliver value for your customers.

    Ferdia Kenny
    April 30, 2025
    • Product Design
    • Product Management
    • Product
    • Artificial Intelligence
  5. The rise of the intelligent marketplace: lessons learned from thoughtbot clients

    Discover how today’s most innovative founders are transforming traditional marketplaces into intelligent, AI-driven ecosystems that deliver lasting value. Drawing insights from thoughtbot clients like Clara, Folio, and Adwerx, we explore the trends shaping the next generation of marketplace solutions.

    Kelly Gebo and Jim Bodor
    April 29, 2025
    • Product
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  6. AI in Focus: Connecting DeepSeek to Rails

    Experimenting with a locally running version of the DeepSeek R1 LLM model in a real Rails app using Ollama and ruby-openai.

    Chad Pytel and Kate Young
    April 24, 2025
    • AI
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    • Language Models
    • Ollama
    • Rails
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    • Large Language Models
  7. AI for Business: AI and automation

    The basics on how to leverage automation and AI to deliver value for your customers.

    Ferdia Kenny
    April 23, 2025
    • Product
    • Product Design
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    • Artificial Intelligence
  8. AI for Business: How to harness AI

    How and where to add AI to your processes to digitally transform your business.

    Ferdia Kenny
    April 16, 2025
    • Product
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    • Product Design
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • AI Series
  9. AI for Business: A history of Artificial Intelligence

    To understand where AI might be headed, we should first revisit the past to see where it has come from and how it got here.

    Ferdia Kenny
    April 9, 2025
    • Product
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    • Business
    • Artificial Intelligence
  10. 🎙️ Introducing AI for Business, a new blog series

    This blog series will shed light on AI from a non-technical perspective. It will be useful for anyone in Design and Product roles along with stakeholders like founders, executives, and anyone looking to get to grips with AI.

    Ferdia Kenny
    April 2, 2025
    • Product
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    • New
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    • Artificial Intelligence
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