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This week in AI: Today we're publishing the AI Use-Case Library: 159 real, named AI deployments across 21 industries, with the tools, vendors, and reported outcomes on 77 of them. Six were halted or reversed, and those might be the most useful entries in the file. Updated 2026-07-15

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Today we're publishing the AI Use-Case Library: 159 real, named AI deployments across 21 industries, with the tools, vendors, and reported outcomes on 77 of them. Six were halted or reversed, and those might be the most useful entries in the file. It's free, no signup, and built to search before you spend a budget or write a pitch. This edition is the tour: what's working, what got pulled back, and why a precedent file matters right now....

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Today we're publishing the AI Use-Case Library: 159 real, named AI deployments across 21 industries, with the tools, vendors, and reported outcomes on 77 of them. Six were halted or reversed, and those might be the most useful entries in the file. It's free, no signup, and built to search before you spend a budget or write a pitch. This edition is the tour: what's working, what got pulled back, and why a precedent file matters right now....
2026-07-15
#513 Treasury analysts called AI a systemic risk. Treasury disowned it.
#512 Robotics Is Moving Fast: IPOs, New Models, and Smarter Robots
#511 AlphaFold's Nobel Winner Just Joined Anthropic. And 6 More AI Wins.
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