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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.

Atlanta's Salesloft finds only 20.6% of sales teams call their AI strategy production ready.

Digital Realty's 2026 survey finds AI spend rising 32% as infrastructure becomes the top execution barrier.

Paid AI adoption hit record highs in 2026 as finance and manufacturing

Fulton County is building AI readiness into its investment pitch

McKinsey's global AI survey finds marketing and sales lead all functions in AI adoption, but EBIT gains lag.

Stanford's 2026 AI Index finds documented AI safety incidents rose 55 percent as benchmark reporting lags.

Salesloft's 2026 benchmark finds every U.S. revenue team uses AI, but few report production-ready results.

HubSpot's Fall 2026 update adds AI marketing tools including AEO visibility scoring and automated campaign planning.

Effingham County delayed site plan review for the OpenAI data center campus in Georgia, citing a need for more time.

McKinsey sizes agentic commerce at 3 to 5 trillion dollars by 2030 as US shoppers adopt AI tools.

Stanford AI Index 2026: AI Overviews cover most US health searches and FDA cleared 258 AI devices.

Crunchbase data shows AI firms hold about 60 percent of the $3.9 trillion top-30 unicorn pool.

Venture Atlanta named its 2026 presenting companies for the October event at the Woodruff Arts Center.

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra in ChatGPT Work, Codex and its API at $10 per million input tokens.