North American Executive

Subscribe to our free newsletter today to keep up to date with the latest business news. The sale of New York Magazine, Vox.com, and Vox Media’s podcast network to James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems marks more than another ownership reshuffle inside digital publishing. It reflects a deeper reset underway across the media business, where scale alone no longer guarantees survival and where premium audiences have become more valuable than raw traffic.

AI investments have become the defining business trend in North America. The largest spenders are no longer treating artificial intelligence as a software upgrade. They are funding data centres, chips, cloud capacity and foundation models at industrial scale. OpenAI sits at the top because of Stargate, the AI infrastructure venture announced with an intended $500 billion investment over four years, beginning with $100 billion deployed immediately.

Subscribe to our free newsletter today to keep up to date with the latest business news. For much of the 2010s, BuzzFeed represented the future of digital publishing. The company built its identity around viral quizzes, social distribution, and internet-native storytelling at a scale traditional media companies struggled to replicate. Investors embraced the model, audiences shared its content relentlessly across Facebook feeds, and media executives rushed to imitate its strategy.

Subscribe to our free newsletter today to keep up to date with the latest business news. The latest Nvidia earnings report did more than exceed analyst expectations. It reinforced how artificial intelligence has become the defining infrastructure race of the global technology industry. Quarterly revenue climbed above $81 billion, rising 85% year over year, while datacenter revenue surpassed $75 billion as cloud providers accelerated investment into AI systems and computing capacity.

Subscribe to our free newsletter today to keep up to date with the latest business news. The sale of New York Magazine, Vox.com, and Vox Media’s podcast network to James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems marks more than another ownership reshuffle inside digital publishing. It reflects a deeper reset underway across the media business, where scale alone no longer guarantees survival and where premium audiences have become more valuable than raw traffic.

Subscribe to our free newsletter today to keep up to date with the latest business news. The clearest signal yet that artificial intelligence is reshaping Wall Street may not be a product launch or a technology partnership. It may be a hiring comment from Jamie Dimon. Speaking about JPMorgan’s long-term workforce direction, the bank’s CEO suggested the company will likely employ “more AI people and probably less bankers” over time.

In 2026, business leaders are operating in a landscape defined by economic uncertainty, rapid technological change, and shifting customer expectations. While new tools and platforms continue to emerge, many of the most effective approaches to business growth remain grounded in well established principles, now enhanced by data, digital infrastructure, and sharper execution. The challenge for executives is not identifying entirely new strategies, but refining those that consistently deliver results.

Subscribe to our free newsletter today to keep up to date with the latest business news. Alibaba’s latest earnings delivered a sharp contradiction. Revenue held steady and parts of the business are accelerating, yet profitability collapsed. The result is not a simple case of weakening demand, but a clearer signal that the company is reshaping itself around a more capital-intensive future. The headline number is stark. Net income fell 66% year over year, while adjusted profit dropped 67%.

Subscribe to our free newsletter today to keep up to date with the latest business news. Apple’s approach to leadership has long favored stability over spectacle, yet speculation around Tim Cook’s future continues to surface with predictable timing. As the company approaches its 50th anniversary, those questions have intensified, driven by milestone optics and investor curiosity rather than any clear internal signal.

Subscribe to our free newsletter today to keep up to date with the latest business news. PwC’s US leadership has made its position on artificial intelligence explicit. Adoption is not encouraged or expected. It is required. The message from CEO Paul Griggs is clear. Professionals who fail to integrate AI into their work risk becoming obsolete within the firm.