Nearly 4 in 10 CFOs See Gen AI Paying Off Within Two Years
CFOs have stopped treating generative artificial intelligence returns as one date circled on the calendar. By December, 39.1%…
OpenAI CFO Built an AI Department. Mid-Market CFOs Can Too
Most mid-market CFOs are not going to build OpenAI’s finance stack. They do not have the same engineering…
OpenAI’s CFO insists AI won’t replace judgment
Good morning. I can report that CFO Daily readers are very curious about what OpenAI is up to…
Lumen reinvents itself as the fiber network behind AI and enterprise—from Anthropic to the Yankees
Good morning. Lumen Technologies has been transforming from a traditional telecom operator into a key player in AI…
What OpenAI’s finance team is becoming in the age of AI
Good morning. I sat in on a webinar yesterday where an OpenAI exec casually mentioned that his entire…
CFOs are hitting a ‘cost wall’ on AI
Good morning. For many companies, the biggest surprise in scaling AI isn’t performance—it’s the bill. Tokens, the units…
The Middle Market CFO’s Guide to the Open-Weight AI Debate
The artificial intelligence (AI) industry is dividing itself along one of the software sector’s most fundamental debates: open…
Sumo Logic Names New CEO, CFO for Agentic AI
Chris Malone joins as Chief Executive Officer, and Conor Burns as Chief Financial Officer to scale AI-first platform for…
CFOs Pushed to Prove AI ROI Before Governance Is Ready
Avalara on July 21 released new research showing that finance leaders are under growing pressure to deploy agentic…
How CFOs can tell if AI is actually creating value
Good morning. AI is everywhere in your board materials right now—but how much of that spend is actually…
I’m an Enterprise Consultant, and Here’s the Truth About AI Layoffs
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Max Votek, the cofounder and managing partner of Customertimes,…
Budget Certainty in the Age of AI: A New Model for Higher Education
Predictability Built In, Not Bolted On Institutional finance leaders do not want surprises, and Flex Credits are engineered…