AI & Business

McKinsey: AI could unlock $360-560 billion in annual R&D value across industries.

Stanford's 2026 AI Index finds 88% enterprise adoption and 94% in marketing teams.

CallRail adds AI-driven HubSpot scheduling and agent data access to Voice Assist.

Marketo co-founder launches Phave, an AI-reasoning marketing automation platform.

OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI firms hire Tennessee lobbyists amid a growing data center policy fight.

AI and machine learning drew $72.4 billion, or 52 percent, of global venture deal value in Q4 2025.

Microsoft data ranks Georgia 10th in US AI adoption at 33.7 percent of working-age residents in Q1 2026.

Engage named eight startups to Cohort 17 in Atlanta, with AI and security products leading corporate demand.

Atlanta-based Salesloft detailed Agentic Forecasting, Agentic Playbook and Context Intelligence plans for revenue teams.

Humanoid robot costs must fall from $500K to $50K per unit before mass adoption, McKinsey finds.

Businesses without a responsible AI policy dropped to 11% in 2025 as AI governance roles grew 17%, Stanford finds.

Atlanta based Canto launches AI tools to automate digital asset management for marketing and creative teams.

AT&T, Southwest and Crocs deploy AI agents at scale while keeping humans in the loop for key decisions.

A Fulton County commissioner flagged colleagues' legislation as AI-written, sparking calls for a county AI-use policy.

Dunwoody-based Insight Global plans to hire 1,700 workers in 2026 to meet growing enterprise AI demand.

Georgia Tech's Avant South conference returns to Atlanta Oct. 12-13 to explore how firms are deploying AI today.

Statista projects the global AI market will quadruple from $255B in 2025 to $1.2T by 2030.

McKinsey data: 93% of companies exceed AI budgets, with nearly half over by 10 to 30 percent.