AI busts budgets, creates opportunities: US Bank
The new report, U.S. Bank CFO Insights Report: Fall 2026, has nine key findings, including that 51% of companies exceeded their AI budgets. The good news is that 69% said that the rapid growth of AI investment has created meaningful opportunities.
Elliptic outlines 9 engineering decisions for Agentic AI
Built for compliance outlines the nine engineering decisions that determine whether an on-chain risk system can support fast, accurate and defensible compliance decisions at agentic scale. They include real-time computation, full blockchain coverage and absorbing volume spikes.
LatAm is 4 different investment regions: Varys Capital, Verda Ventures
LATAM: Beyond the Acronym — Disaggregating Technological & Financial Investment Opportunities Across Latin America assesses the forces reshaping investment across Latin America.
The report identifies four distinct market archetypes: Scale Markets, Stable Builders, Crisis Innovators and Frontier Markets. Each is shaped by different economic conditions, financial infrastructure, regulatory environments, levels of digital adoption and entrepreneurial ecosystems.
The report’s central finding is that fragmentation itself can be an investment signal.
AI transforms revenue and billing software: ISG
The 2026 ISG Buyers Guides for Revenue and Recurring Billing finds that organizations are rapidly integrating AI into revenue intelligence platforms and other systems to increase automation, improve consistency and accelerate sales cycles.
Predictive creative scoring can forecast e-commerce conversion: Kroger, Vidmob, MMA Global
Predictive creative scoring forecasts e-commerce conversion with 81% accuracy. Creative aligned with the model’s recommendations averaged 4x higher conversion rates across Meta and DV360, at up to a 70% lower cost per conversion. Reallocating media toward higher-scoring creative could generate up to 2.2x as many conversions from the same advertising budget. Learn more here.
Infobip sees AI-fueled Black Friday/Cyber Monday message rise in UK
Infobip predicts that around 193 million messages will be sent from businesses to consumers across Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2026 in the UK. That’s as AI and conversational channels transform how consumers discover products, receive offers and access support.
It also found that 63.2% of consumers have used an AI assistant or chatbot while shopping during the past 12 months.