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Adobe just handed Photoshop to someone who has never run it

Adobe named Anil Chakravarthy president and chief executive from 1 December, with Shantanu Narayen moving to executive chair. Chakravarthy came up through Digital Experience and worldwide field operations, arrived from enterprise data company Informatica, and championed the Workfront and Semrush acquisitions. The argument here is that the board has picked a leader from the side […]

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UNICEF study finds 60% of online child sexual abuse happens on social media

Around 20 million children experienced sexual exploitation or abuse online in a single year across 21 countries, according to a UNICEF study published on Thursday. That is roughly one in five internet-using children aged 12 to 17 in the countries surveyed. The findings come from “Through Children’s Eyes: How Digital Technologies Enable Child Sexual Abuse”, […]

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The economics of a voice agent: what a minute of conversation actually costs

Most voice agent pricing starts with a single number: voice agent cost per minute. However, this figure doesn’t reveal much about the real cost of running a production system. I discovered this firsthand while building and running a voice agent for enterprise use. When you factor in speech recognition, text-to-speech, model usage, telephony, and infrastructure, a […]

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Your next privacy breach might not leak any data at all

For decades, protecting privacy has meant one thing: stop personal data from leaking out. Gartner thinks that idea is about to break. By 2029, most privacy incidents will come not from leaked personal data but from what AI infers about people, the research firm predicted this week. The risk is no longer only the records […]

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A quarter of the S&P now claims measurable AI benefits. Last year it was 14%

Wall Street has spent three years paying for the companies that build AI. It is starting to pay for the companies that use it. The rotation has a number behind it. Morgan Stanley ran a systematic analysis of earnings call transcripts. It found that 25% of S&P 500 members cited measurable benefits from AI adoption […]

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Why businesses are bracing for more economic volatility in 2026

The first half of 2026 has been marked by waves of economic uncertainty. From fuel prices to inflation to market dives, here’s why leaders should stay flexible as they prepare for the uncertain months ahead. Furthermore, it has been marked by significant economic volatility. Business leaders have had to navigate a uniquely unpredictable market defined […]

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UK finance chiefs are warming to AI, even as they keep spending in check

Nearly three-quarters of the finance chiefs at Britain’s largest companies now say they are optimistic that artificial intelligence will improve business performance, a striking figure from a group not given to exuberance. In Deloitte’s latest quarterly UK CFO Survey, 73% expressed that optimism, up from 59% at the end of 2025 and just 39% two […]

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OpenAI is killing its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch

OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its AI-powered web browser, less than a year after launching it. The company is targeting 9 August for deprecation, The Verge reports. Atlas only arrived in October 2025, pitched as a browser that could carry out tasks on a user’s behalf. Nine months later, it is being retired. The move […]

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Is the ‘SaaSpocalypse’ a myth? The real cost of AI-built software

Before replacing SaaS subscriptions with internally built AI software, executives should evaluate the full lifecycle cost of ownership rather than focusing on development cost alone. The key question is not whether the organisation can build a tool, but whether it has the capacity and resilience to maintain, secure, and continuously evolve it over time. This […]

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Apple to raise prices as memory chip shortage bites, Tim Cook says

Apple is going to raise prices, and Tim Cook is no longer pretending otherwise. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the chief executive said the company could not keep absorbing the soaring cost of memory and storage chips. “Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” he said. The line is notable mostly because Apple has […]

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