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Applied AI·October 27, 2026·1 min read

BNY CFO on AI Strategy, Business Growth

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A global bank CFO explicitly worrying about AI overspend is the tell—board-level scrutiny on AI ROI is arriving faster than many vendors’ payback stories. If you’re selling or deploying AI into financials, tighten your cost-to-impact narrative and instrument real usage and savings, not just pilots.

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‘You want to control your own AI’: Pegasus spyware founder tells governments to push for sovereign AI and national security over reliance on US AI

Sovereign AI is shifting from rhetoric to security doctrine—governments are being told to treat foreign foundation models like foreign cloud or telecom. If you sell into public sector or defense-adjacent sectors, assume stricter data residency, model provenance, and on-prem requirements will harden over the next 12–24 months.

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How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant

Turning coding tools into an always-on assistant is a shift from “tool you open” to “presence that intermediates work”—and OpenAI’s exec refusing meetings with other people’s agents hints at looming protocol wars. If you build SaaS or workflows, assume a future where the primary interface is someone else’s persistent agent, not your UI, and plan for API-first, agent-facing integration.