Leadership
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HP's board appointed Emma Walmsley, ex-CEO of GSK, as CEO starting January 4. She inherits a plan for up to 6,000 layoffs and rising memory costs affecting PCs.
Segundo o Wall Street Journal, o conselho da Nvidia se prepara para destituir o CEO e fundador após dois casos extraconjugais reportados. A empresa não comentou e nenhuma decisão foi anunciada.
Independent committee to probe reports of foreign intelligence targeting CEO. Huang acknowledged an extramarital affair and remains in position.
The fund, an LLC controlled by Anthropic, needs shareholder approval and may receive an additional 2% for every 50% valuation increase, at the board's discretion, as the company prepares for its IPO.
Ravi Simhambhatla, former Avis Budget and Google Cloud, joins as Chief Technology and AI Officer, contrasting with HSBC and Deloitte UK's separate AI officer roles.
CJ Desai leaves MongoDB immediately to lead Meta's Enterprise Platform, reporting to Zuckerberg. MongoDB's shares plummeted; Meta has not disclosed pricing or timeline for the offering.
The reorganization announced on August 5 removes Hassabis from day-to-day operations at DeepMind, promotes CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu to a direct report of Pichai, and loses Jeff Dean to a new venture financed by Alphabet itself.
Marc Benioff creates a COO position for Miguel Milano and brings in Rohan Kumar, former Microsoft executive, to lead the platform. Srini Tallapragada exits after 14 years, while Alexa Vignone takes over revenue responsibilities.
Apple reports a record $109.4 billion but services fall short as shares drop 6% following weak guidance. Cook highlights memory price shock and hands the reins to John Ternus on September 1.
A groundbreaking study by Deloitte involving 660 senior technology leaders reveals the central paradox of 2026: 81% of CIOs trust in the ability to scale AI, yet 42% report low or non-existent returns. The issue is not the technology, it is the organisational model built around it.
In 2026, major technology consultancies face an unprecedented dilemma: the AI they sell as a solution to their clients is compressing the demand for the services that have historically sustained their revenues. Stefanini, Thoughtworks, Capgemini and their Indian counterparts are recalibrating business models, leadership structures, and value propositions with an unusual speed for the sector.
Alibaba cut its workforce by 34% in 2025, from around 245,000 to 162,000 employees, while CEO Eddie Wu announced a target of over $100 billion in annual AI and cloud revenue within five years. ByteDance leads in AI hardware, leaving Alibaba and Tencent on the defensive. Samsung and SK Hynix surpassed Alibaba and Tencent in market capitalisation for the first time in 2026.