Abu Dhabi says $100bn of AI capital sits in its financial centre. Its own announcement cannot decide whether that money is held there or spent.
Abu Dhabi says $100bn of AI capital sits in its financial centre. Its own announcement cannot decide whether that money is held there or spent.

Abu Dhabi Global Market reported more than $100bn in AI-focused capital in its first-half results, alongside 54% growth in assets under management. The same release describes that sum as deployed from the centre in one place and held by entities in ano…

Google and Accenture are putting 1,000 engineers inside client offices
Google and Accenture are putting 1,000 engineers inside client offices

The chief executive of a consultancy with 799,000 staff has described what her clients are telling her about AI, and it is not a sales pitch. “We promised AI can do that,” Julie Sweet told the Wall Street Journal. “And they’re like, we get it, except i…

Lenovo opens a phone line to Eva Longoria for entrepreneurs
Lenovo opens a phone line to Eva Longoria for entrepreneurs

Lenovo has given entrepreneurs a phone number to ring, and Eva Longoria is on the other end of it. The service is called Call Eva. It opened on Tuesday and works roughly the way a radio phone-in does. You call, you leave a voice note with a business qu…

Dubai is training 14,000 companies to run AI agents, on a two-year clock
Dubai is training 14,000 companies to run AI agents, on a two-year clock

Dubai Chambers is putting more than 14,000 companies through training in agentic AI, the kind of software that carries out tasks on its own rather than answering questions. The body launched the courses on 1 September in front of 90 chairpersons of its…

Cognizant put $4.5tn on AI job exposure, then hired 1,500 graduates
Cognizant put $4.5tn on AI job exposure, then hired 1,500 graduates

Cognizant announced on Monday that it will hire 1,500 American college graduates this year and build a new job family for the AI era. The company’s own research says AI could take on $4.5tn worth of work Americans currently get paid to do. Both numbers…

Adobe just handed Photoshop to someone who has never run it
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 Informati…

As AI reshapes business, the fractional CTO finds its moment
As AI reshapes business, the fractional CTO finds its moment

The AI race is producing an uncomfortable management gap. Deloitte’s 2026 research found only 21% of enterprises have mature governance for agentic AI, while 74% expect to use agents at least moderately by 2027. Technology is moving faster than the str…

Independent project franchising: why big software companies should spin out innovation instead of killing it
Independent project franchising: why big software companies should spin out innovation instead of killing it

Innovation does not usually die because an experiment fails. It dies when ownership disappears. Large software companies can build an ancillary tool, prove that it solves a real problem, and still starve it of attention once leadership redirects the te…

Anthropic’s enterprise venture has bought its second consultancy in four months
Anthropic’s enterprise venture has bought its second consultancy in four months

Ode, the enterprise AI company Anthropic set up with Blackstone, has bought an AI consultancy called Casper Studios. Casper helps companies put Claude to work inside software their staff already use, Ode said on Thursday. The announcement gives no pric…

Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models
Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models

Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year buying access to AI models through Microsoft’s cloud. The company runs trillions of tokens a week through Azure, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be id…