Four Vendor Surveys on Missed AI Returns Each Find the Problem Their Sponsor Sells a Fix For
FranklinCovey blames leadership, Latch blames missing context, Convertr blames data governance and Federato blames legacy core systems. The findings are useful, read side by side and with their sponsors in mind.
Wasabi Study Puts Unplanned Infrastructure Spending at $63.4 Billion, With Germany Overspending by 7.1 Billion Euros
A Wasabi-commissioned study across eight countries finds companies spent far more than planned on technology infrastructure in 2025, with AI projects the least predictable line item.
CSC Survey Finds 88% of Private Capital GPs Spend Up to Half Their Finance Time Checking Administrator Work
CSC’s Future Private Capital CFO 2026 report, drawn from more than 300 GPs and 200 LPs, finds fund finance teams redoing administrator outputs while LPs press harder on cyber resilience and AI governance.
Lenovo Survey Finds 80% of IT Leaders Tie AI Success to the Digital Workplace and Only 10% Have Redesigned It
Lenovo’s sixth Work Reborn report, based on 1,200 IT leaders surveyed in August 2026, finds a wide gap between AI as a stated priority and the workplace changes needed to scale it.
Claude and ChatGPT Integrations Killed the Headless CMS Market
Headless CMS vendors sold content as an API for every channel. Claude and ChatGPT took the channel, MCP connectors made any database agent-readable, and Contentful sold for half its peak valuation.
Survey Margin of Error Explained, What Plus or Minus 3 Points Covers and What It Leaves Out
The margin of error printed under a poll describes one kind of error only: random sampling error. Coverage, nonresponse and question wording can move a result much more, and the plus or minus number says nothing about them.
Morgan Stanley Pulse Survey Finds Bearish Investor Sentiment Rising to 42 Percent as Inflation Fears Grow
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s fourth-quarter Pulse survey of 953 US investors shows bearishness up 4 points to 42%, inflation the top worry, and more investors bracing for another Fed hike.
A Stronger Week Across the Network, October 4–10, 2026
Across 82 sites, weekly visits rose 34.44% to 20,300, with strong gains in audience reach and mixed results in loading performance.
The Tariff Map Is Becoming an Industrial Policy Map—and the U.S. Economy Is Paying the Price
Overlapping tariffs raise U.S. production costs, weaken competitiveness and complicate investment, turning industrial protection into a burden across the American economy.
PC Shipments Fall 22.4% as Higher Component Costs Price Buyers Out
Gartner’s preliminary third-quarter estimates show PC shipments falling sharply as component inflation raises prices and reduces access to cheaper configurations.
Infrastructure Software Market Watch: Five Early-Stage Tools Test Edge Data, Agent Security, Metering, Agent Setup and Proxies
Five infrastructure projects launched in alpha over the past few weeks, each one aimed at a separate segment of the software market. Taken together, they…
The Economist Is Right About a Million AI Jobs. It’s a Construction Boom, Not a Tech Boom.
I own the picks and shovels. Chip equipment, memory, the industrial names that sell into data-centre construction. When someone tells me the build-out is a…
AI Slop Earns Higher CPMs Than Clean Inventory: Why the Ad Market Cannot Fix the Web It Funds
The question of what to do about an internet filling with machine-generated filler finally got a price tag in July, and the number that matters…
Weekly Network Analytics, July 19 to July 25, 2026: Visits Up 14%
The network closed the week ending July 25 with 16.21k visits across 65 sites, up 14.15% on the prior period, and 16.82k page views, up…
Adobe (ADBE) and Figma (FIG) Have Each Lost Roughly Half Their Value to a Competitor Set Worth $34 Million
Three companies now occupy the design tools market and they are separated by a single variable: how much of the design artifact is a proprietary…
Getty Images Kills the $3.7 Billion Shutterstock Merger Rather Than Sell the Editorial Business the UK Demanded
Getty Images has walked away from its $3.7 billion merger with Shutterstock, and the reason is instructive: the only way British regulators would approve the…
Fox’s $22B Roku Deal: 4.6x Sales, Paid in 1.5x Stock
The headline number is $22 billion of enterprise value. The number that decides whether this works is the multiple. Fox is paying roughly 4.6 times…
Tuesday Open: AI Earnings Engine Holds the Line as Iran Overhang Fades to Noise
U.S. equity markets return Tuesday from the Memorial Day break with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Equal Weight index both sitting…
China’s U.S. Treasury Holdings: The Great Repositioning (2021–2025)
This infographic illustrates the significant shift in China’s holdings of U.S. Treasury securities over the four-year period from December 2021 to December 2025. Executive Summary:…
Infographic: Why the 2025 CIPA Data Proves the APS-C Renaissance is Real
The infographic is summarizing the 2025 CIPA data for interchangeable lens shipments. Here is a breakdown of the key findings illustrated in the image: The…
How WiFi Changed Media
The wire did not disappear quietly. It was displaced by a standard nobody outside engineering circles had heard of, ratified in 1997 under the designation…
Canva Acquires Simtheory and Ortto to Build End-to-End Work Platform
Canva has acquired two companies founded by the same team: Simtheory, an AI agent and collaboration platform, and Ortto, a customer data and marketing automation…
Netflix Price Hikes, The Economics of Dominance in a Saturated Streaming Market
A familiar pattern keeps repeating itself, and it’s not accidental. Every time Netflix raises prices, the reaction cycle runs fast—complaints, cancellations, headlines—and then, almost as…
America’s Brands Keep Winning Even as America Itself Slips
The latest Brand Finance picture of the United States in 2026 captures a tension that feels bigger than branding alone. On one side, the U.S.…
