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Franklin Templeton's CEO Jenny Johnson made waves this week, saying blockchain and crypto threaten a huge number of business models in traditional finance. Wall Street's resistance, she argues, isn't skepticism — it's self-preservation. When incumbents have the most to lose, that's usually when a technology is getting serious.
That theme echoes into the advertising world, where the CEO of Billions Network is warning that big tech is, in his words, terrified of AI agents. The argument is straightforward: if your AI assistant books your flight, orders your groceries, and filters your inbox, you're no longer seeing ads. Google and Facebook built empires on your attention — and AI agents may quietly route around it.
Meanwhile, a story with real human stakes. New claims data on healthcare cybersecurity heading into two thousand twenty six shows that after a record-breaking year of breaches, hospital executives are still asking the wrong questions about risk. The data points to a handful of specific controls that measurably reduce losses — but the gap between what the evidence shows and what organizations are actually doing remains dangerously wide.
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