Sarah Friar has a clear message for anyone eyeing a finance role at OpenAI. Mastery of tools such as Codex now stands alongside spreadsheet proficiency as a baseline requirement. “I would never hire a finance person who didn’t know how to use Excel, and I probably wouldn’t hire a finance person today that doesn’t know

Humanitarian operations in conflict zones carry risks that extend far beyond delivery of food and cash. Last month the World Food Programme learned this lesson once again. Unauthorized parties gained access to personal details belonging to roughly 600,000 households in Gaza through the agency’s self-registration application. The breach happened on May 14. WFP detected it

Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985. He returned 12 years later. Those dozen years at NeXT shaped the man who remade the company he once helped build. A new book examines that period with fresh detail. It shows how failure, persistence and hard lessons turned a brash founder into a focused leader. The Book That

Christian Sewing took charge of Deutsche Bank in 2018 with the bank reeling from years of scandals, heavy fines and shrinking ambitions. What followed was a deliberate retreat from some global dreams and a sharp focus on core European strengths. The results speak clearly now. In 2025 the German lender posted its highest annual profit

Google CEO Sundar Pichai stood before developers in May 2026 and declared victory. Seventy-five percent of the company’s new code now comes from AI, he said. Engineers approve it. Progress marches forward. Inside the company, the mood tells another story. Employees flood internal channels with memes that savage their own tools. They call the output

Washington thought it had China boxed out of the most powerful artificial intelligence hardware. Then a quiet decision last year created an opening. Chinese companies simply set up shop elsewhere. They bought servers packed with Nvidia’s Blackwell processors. No license needed. No questions asked. At least for a while. The U.S. Department of Commerce moved

Ofqual’s chief regulator delivered a stark warning this week. Smart glasses, hidden earpieces and even pens with tiny screens now threaten the integrity of GCSE and A-level exams across England. “We’re hearing stories,” Sir Ian Bauckham told the BBC, “and I hear this directly from schools as I go up and down the country —

Programmers complain constantly about poor documentation. They struggle to understand legacy systems. They waste hours deciphering code written by others who have since moved on. Yet many of those same developers pour effort into crafting clear explanations when an AI model like Claude sits on the other side of the chat window. This contradiction jumped