Business
-
Companies want battle-tested CFOs. There aren’t enough of them
Good morning. Globally, CFO hiring is starting to cool. But CFO retirement is fueling turnover. Those are some of the latest findings of leadership advisory firm Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) Q1 2026 Global CFO Turnover Index. Based on moves in the S&P 500, FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and other major stock indexes, global CFO appointments
-
Boeing could be the biggest winner on Trump’s trip to Beijing
In today’s CEO Daily: Ticking through the high stakes of Trump’s trip to Beijing. The big leadership story: How Publicis chairman Maurice Lévy built Europe’s biggest tech conference. The markets: U.S. futures are up after a rally in tech stocks on Wednesday. Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Good morning. Whilefew expect
-
How HubSpot got all engineers to use AI without any mandates
Across Big Tech, Wall Street, and other major industries, employers have pushed their workforce to embrace artificial intelligence through a mix of tactics that go beyond mere nudging, including tracking how often they are logging into these workplace tools and linking annual performance reviews to AI usage. But at software-as-a-service company HubSpot, 100% of engineers
-
What Twilio’s CFO learned about management from spending nearly 20 years at GE
Good morning. Twilio CFO Aidan Viggiano brings an operator’s mindset to the finance role as the company moves through the middle-to-late stages of a turnaround. Twilio lets companies integrate voice, video, text, email, and other communication channels into their products. But Viggiano told me the company is evolving beyond its communications roots to make those
-
CEOs join Trump in China where AI will take priority over trade deals
In today’s CEO Daily: Fortune’s editorial director for Asia Lee Williamson takes the pulse in the region ahead of Trump’s bilateral meeting in Beijing. The big leadership story: ‘Tokenmaxxing’ at Amazon The markets: Up globally as investors await Trump-Xi talks. Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Good morning. Today all eyes are
-
AI godfather warns humanity risks extinction by hyperintelligent machines with their own ‘preservation goals’ within 10 years
One of the so-called godfathers of AI, Yoshua Bengio, claims tech companies racing for AI dominance could be bringing us closer to our own extinction through the creation of machines with “preservation goals” of their own. Bengio, a professor at the Université de Montréal known for his foundational work related to deep learning, has for
-
Plaid’s CFO sees AI usage taking off internally: ‘People are so excited to share what they’ve built over the weekend with AI’
Good morning. CFOs are increasingly involved in AI strategy. For Seun Sodipo, CFO at Plaid, the fintech startup that connects financial institutions, her coding experience has become a foundation for experimenting with large language models and AI. “AI in its best form, should be an accelerant to a business achieving their goals,” said Sodipo, who
-
WFP Chief Cindy McCain warns that the food crisis is a business crisis: ‘Feed them now or fight them later’
In today’s CEO Daily: The global food crisis isn’t just about food. The big leadership story: Consumers are shouldering the entire cost of tariffs now. The markets: Mostly down as an immediate U.S.-Iran peace plan looks unlikely. Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Good morning. The global food crisis is impacting business
-
Inside the high-stakes ping pong tournament designed to keep workers from quitting
Good morning! Last month, nearly 300 Montage International employees packed into the ballroom of the company’s Deer Valley, Utah hotel dressed in their Wimbledon-inspired best. After grabbing concessions like strawberries and cream, they filed into stadium seats, eyes fixed on a ping pong table where former Olympians served as referees for the company’s biennial Compass
-
What Microsoft’s new research tells CFOs about the ROI of AI
Good morning. In Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index, the tech giant examined who is building the skills and habits needed to succeed in an AI-powered workplace. Several findings should interest CFOs, particularly those trying to determine whether AI spending is translating into measurable business value. For starters, Microsoft frames AI value as an operating-model issue,