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The US defense industry does not face a shortage of capital, but structural barriers that prevent investment from reaching critical areas, according to a report by Bain & Company and the Aerospace Industries Association.

The supply of new entrants to the accounting profession is contracting. At the same time, demand for tax professionals continues to rise off the back of increasing regulatory complexity, according to a research report.

The Governance Institute of Australia has argued that mandating structural separation of audit and non-audit services at large accounting firms should be a last-resort option.

Salesforce and Anthropic recentlyunveiled Claudeforce, a partnership that integrates frontier AI reasoning into the world’s leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform. While the announcement featured the standard smiling CEOs and celebratory marketing, it masked the architectural reality: Salesforce is voluntarily surrendering its user interface (UI) to Anthropic. This move signals a public, slow-motion unbundling of…

Despite substantial investment in artificial intelligence, mortgage origination remains expensive and labor-intensive. In the first quarter of 2026, the average cost to originate a loan rose to $11,898, while lenders earned just $727, or 16 basis points, in pre-tax production profit.