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How small businesses can leverage AI
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This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review ’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries.
Key facts
- MIT Technology Review's authoritative overview of the 10 technologies, emerging trends, bold ideas, and powerful movements in AI in 2026
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- According to Stanford’s 2026 AI Index, AI is sprinting, and they're struggling to keep up
- Its AI add-on, released in late 2023, now has tools that enable it to interact with many other online productivity platforms
Summary
From accounting to design to market research and product development, there’s a staggering breadth of skills needed to run a business. That’s where AI comes in. One place where a “good enough” AI can already be valuable to small business owners is in providing secretarial skills and handling basic administrative matters. Sam Finnegan-Dehn works in fundraising for a charity, but he moonlights as a math and philosophy tutor for university students from his home in London.