Why businesses are bracing for more economic volatility in 2026
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 significa…

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

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

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

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

A million Dutch adults get news solely from social media. Only 12% trust what they see.
A million Dutch adults get news solely from social media. Only 12% trust what they see.

More than one million people in the Netherlands now rely exclusively on social media for news, according to the 2026 Digital News Report published on Tuesday. They use no news websites, no television, no radio, and only 12% say they trust what they enc…

Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month for AI compute as Musk turns a data centre built for Grok into a cash machine
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month for AI compute as Musk turns a data centre built for Grok into a cash machine

SpaceX has signed its second massive compute deal in a month, this time with Google. Under the terms disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to approximate…

Reflections from GLOBSEC Forum 2026: Europe’s two paths forward
Reflections from GLOBSEC Forum 2026: Europe’s two paths forward

Prague, late May. GLOBSEC Forum 2026, now in its 21st year, welcomed over 2,000 participants, 270 speakers, and a dense programme of conversations about AI, cybersecurity and digital trust. European technology company Nebi joined the forum as an offici…

Your next pipeline miss may start in AI Search
Your next pipeline miss may start in AI Search

Across the B2B SaaS teams I work with, a pattern is starting to repeat. Pipeline feels less predictable. Sales cycles stretch. Conversion conversations require more explanation than before. At the same time, traffic often looks stable – sometimes even …

Salesforce expects to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, and Benioff wants coding inside Slack next
Salesforce expects to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, and Benioff wants coding inside Slack next

Marc Benioff expects Salesforce to spend $300 million on Anthropic tokens this year, almost entirely on coding. The Salesforce CEO made the projection on the All-In podcast published on Friday, calling AI coding agents “awesome” and Anthropic “awesome”…