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Research Notes: The AI Adoption Gap

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A Z Mackay
Apr 12, 2025
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Starting Question

Why do half the S&P 500 companies mention AI constantly in their earnings calls while only a tiny fraction of U.S. businesses actually use it? Went looking for actual numbers. What I found was a ten-fold gap between talk and action, and the gap itself turned out to be more revealing than either side of it.

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