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The CFO role has always included two jobs: keeping score and shaping strategy. What’s changed is the balance between them. Deloitte’s Finance Trends 2026 report, based on a survey of 1,326 global finance leaders, found that 57% now play a leading role in shaping their organisation’s strategy, and that these strategy-influencing leaders manage 20% more responsibilities than peers who remain focused on financial stewardship alone.  That shift is well documented, but it doesn’t happen by itself. It depends on three enablers working together: systems that free up time, skills that shift from technical to commercial, and team structures that reorganise…

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ZDNET’s key takeaways Apple has released its first update to iOS 27. The update fixes a bug that causes the 18 Pro and Pro Max to restart. A bug-fixing update is also available for the iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. Apple has released its first update to iOS 27 to fix an intermittent but annoying problem that could cause the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max to freeze or restart without warning. Released Monday, iOS 27.0.1 promises to resolve this freeze and restart issue, which typically occurs when Face ID fails to authenticate. As an iPhone 18 Pro owner, I’ve…

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Key PointsAt age 60, you’re not eligible to claim Social Security retirement benefits, but you’ve probably started thinking about when you plan to sign up. You may already have a claiming age in mind, or you might not be sure yet. That’s OK.In either case, it helps to understand the following three things now, so you can make sure you’re choosing the optimal claiming age for you.Missed AI’s “Act 1”? Act 2 Could Be 15x Bigger. Most investors think they missed the AI boat because they didn’t buy Nvidia in 2005. But according to our analysts, we’re only at the…

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Bitcoin’s biggest holders are not taking profits. They are buying more. Since July 15, wallets holding between 100 and 1,000 BTC have added 113,950 coins, according to Santiment. That cohort now controls roughly 5.24 million BTC, an increase of 2.22%. Claude AI Predicts BTC has further to run while this accumulation continues, though the next resistance band is close enough to test the rally within days. BTC is trading near $83,460, down 2.78% over 24 hours. The pullback follows a spike above $87,000 earlier this week, the first time Bitcoin has traded at that level since January. Volume tells you…

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You love your day job, but there’s a part of you that desires to be your own boss – where you have a business you call your own. You’re looking for a side hustle. It’ll be extra work of course. It could take over the free time you have on evenings and weekends. But you’re willing to put in the extra graft – and building another revenue stream is certainly worth the sacrifice. You might simply harbour dreams of making your side hustle your main source of income, or it might be a more serious goal in your life plan.…

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Have you ever read a paper in Science or Nature and thought, “Man, that research was so cool. I wish I could try that method on my own data,” only to spend a week wrestling with someone else’s undocumented repo, broken dependencies, and half-finished readme.txt?Well, now you can, more or less.Say hello to Paper2Agent, a new open-source framework that transforms academic reports into interactive AI agents you can talk to. Give it a paper, along with the accompanying codebase, data, or other supplementary material, and the system automatically extracts the core workflows, then spins up a tested, runnable toolkit that…

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This article was written byFollowEdmund Ingham is a biotech consultant. He has been covering biotech, healthcare, and pharma for over 5 years, and has put together detailed reports of over 1,000 companies. He leads the investing group Haggerston BioHealth. The group is for both novice and experienced biotech investors. It provides catalysts to look out for and buy and sell ratings. It also provides product sales and forecasts for all the Big Pharmas, forecasting, integrated financial statements, discounted cash flow analysis and market by market analysis. Learn more.Analyst’s Disclosure: I/we have no stock, option or similar derivative position…

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