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AI is just the gift that keeps giving and taking. Taiwanese chip maker TSMC reported Q2 2026 revenue of NT1.27 trillion ($40.2 billion). It is a 36% year-on-year increase driven by demand for AI chips. They contributed 61% of the total revenue. In June 2026, the monthly data shows revenue of NT$442.68 billion ($14.6 billion), a 67.9% year-over-year surge. The company has raised its full-year 2026 revenue growth guidance to more than 40%, up from previous estimates of 30%.

ZenFire, the fire inspection for compliance-driven teams and part of the Zentrades portfolio, has announced an integration with The Compliance Engine. The Compliance Engine is a leading third-party reporting platform across the fire and life safety industry. As recent UKGov figures report, 21,312 of the 51,026 fire safety audits carried out in 2024/25 were found to be unsatisfactory (42%). Almost 3,000 premises were served formal enforcement notices.

Last week, I called out several of the major media database companies on LinkedIn for not allowing journalists a way to update their data. Without that, how can anyone buy the data and trust it? Since then, a couple of the companies have contacted me after being prodded by various people in PR. However, none of them has a process to solve the issue. They also seem to ignore the GDPR and other issues that exist. Most seem to think that they can continue to scrape the Internet, and that is enough.

For many UK investors, portfolio construction involves more than pursuing growth, yield or speculative upside. The FCA’s Financial Lives 2024 survey found that 34% of adults holding investments had no or very low willingness to take investment risk, while a further 53% had low-to-moderate willingness. This is why alternative stores of value, including physical bullion and carefully selected gold investments, are increasingly being considered by investors.

Several senior appointments were announced last week as we head into the summer. Crescendo has announced the appointment of co-founder and hitherto Executive Chairman, Andy Lee, as its next Chief Executive Officer. Precisely has announced two senior appointments. The first is that Vinesh Vis is joining the firm as Chief Revenue Officer. The second appointment sees Jane Gilson appointed as Chief Business Officer. Business Conexiom has announced the expansion of its partnership with Epicor.

After two years of historic profitability, architecture and engineering (A&E) firms are entering a period of normalization. Those firms that will pull ahead are those that have built the discipline to convert strategy into consistent results. Every year, I look forward to the moment when the Deltek Clarity A&E data comes together. It is the moment when the numbers stop being individual data points. They start telling a story about where the industry is today and where it is headed.

Tetrate is rolling out a new capability in its Agent Router Enterprise. Token overspend has become a major story in the last two years. Uber COO Andrew Macdonald admitted the company exhausted its 2026 budget within four months. Microsoft also admitted problems. It cancelled Claude Code licences for one division when per-engineer costs reached $2,000 per month. Gartner says token costs will contribute to the cancellation of 40% of agentic AI projects by the end of 2027.

Over the past few months, have you noticed a change in how business marketing campaigns appear? Many are replacing telephone numbers with just email or website details. It might be down to a cultural shift to online platforms, more AI and targeted systems. Maybe it’s a sign of something else. Increasingly, employees, consultants and directors don’t have a central number anymore and are using their own mobile phones. This poses a serious question.

Initially available in India, Zoho has announced the next version of its LMS for educational institutions worldwide. Zoho Classes 2.0 is an AI-powered academic LMS for government, Universities, Colleges and Students. The solution is free for all Central and State government educational institutions in India. In addition, it is available for any teacher educating up to 100 students. The platform is also available to private institutions with competitive pricing.

Newgen Software Technologies Ltd. announced the results from its Q1 fiscal 2027. It’s celebrating substantial growth for this first quarter. With Revenue up 11.2% to Rs 357 crores compared to Rs 321 crores in Q1 FY’26. And a growth rate of 1.9%. Revenues in North America grew by 25%, the fastest-growing in the quarter. That region contributed 25% to Q1 2027, up 3% YoY. Profits also rose YoY from 15.5% to 17.6%, to Rs 62 crores.