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…
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…
Microsoft’s Frontier push aims to turn AI spending into measurable returns
Good morning. Microsoft is making a $2.5 billion investment in Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating business focused…
Cisco is rolling out AI agents to every single one of its 90,000 employees
Good morning. Mark Patterson has spent 26 years at Cisco Systems, which is long enough to watch the…
The man behind Claude Code says you’re comparing AI costs to the wrong thing
Good morning. Five years after its founding, Anthropic is preparing for what could be one of the largest…
OpenAI CFO: Not knowing AI tools like Codex is now a dealbreaker for finance hires
Good morning. OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says AI tools like Codex are now becoming a baseline expectation in…
Anthropic’s CFO Krishna Rao is steering one of the most anticipated IPOs ever
Good morning. Anthropic’s leadership has taken a significant step toward going public—and CFO Krishna Rao is leading the…
Inside Microsoft’s high-stakes push to win back its AI lead
Good morning. Microsoft was once the undisputed front-runner of the generative AI boom, fueled by a $13 billion…
CFOs could cut agentic AI costs up to 60% by fixing this overlooked data problem
Good morning. In the race to deploy AI agents, many companies are overlooking a costly problem hiding in…