CFO Briefing

Corporate Interest In AI Shifts From Investment to Payoff

Plus, a Q&A with Wipro CFO Aparna Iyer.
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 20, 2026.Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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Welcome to CFO Briefing, a newsletter dedicated to corporate finance and what leaders need to know. This week, we bring you a dispatch from Davos, a Q&A with Wipro’s Aparna Iyer and a Bloomberg terminal function you might not have known about. The common theme? Artificial intelligence.

Geopolitics took center stage this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. But off-piste, in the corporate chalets that spring up every year away from the main conference hall, the big discussion was about business spending on artificial intelligence — and when it will start to pay off.