TechFinitive

11/09/2026

Finance has spent years automating the mechanics of getting money, transactions and processes from A to B. But as those systems have become faster and more connected, another problem has emerged: knowing what is happening across them, and whether it should be happening at all.

For Jeffery Chancellor, CMO at Oversight, that is the next gap finance technology needs to address. Automation can accelerate transactions and remove manual work, but it can also allow mistakes, control failures and potentially risky activity to move through an organisation at the same speed. Traditional periodic reviews and rules-based controls were not designed for an environment operating at that volume and velocity.

Chancellor argues that this is where Finance Risk Intelligence (FRI) can play a role, bringing activity from systems including ERP, procurement, payments, expenses and accounts payable together to provide a more continuous view of financial risk. But he is equally clear that simply adding AI to finance processes is not enough. As foundation models become increasingly accessible, he believes the lasting advantage will come from domain knowledge, historical outcomes and the context needed to distinguish genuine risk from normal business activity.

That distinction becomes particularly important as enterprises move towards agentic AI. Chancellor argues that autonomy should be earned rather than assumed, with AI given greater freedom only when decisions are repeatable, evidence is clear and the appropriate controls are in place.

In this interview, Chancellor discusses the gap between finance automation and financial intelligence, what FRI adds to traditional analytics and controls, where agentic AI can deliver genuine value, and how finance leaders can separate meaningful AI capabilities from another layer of automation. He also looks ahead to an operating model in which technology handles scale, intelligence focuses attention and people apply judgment where it matters most.

Read it here: https://www.techfinitive.com/interviews/jeff-chancellor-cmo-at-oversight-in-finance-the-real-advantage-comes-from-the-context-around-the-model/

Oversight’s Jeff Chancellor discusses Finance Risk Intelligence, agentic AI and why finance must move from automation to continuous risk intelligence.

11/09/2026

AI is meant to take the grind out of your work life, and few tools do that better than Claude Skills.

Claude Skills can be thought of as AI macros. Instead of having to re-enter prompts time and again for AI jobs you run repeatedly, you save the prompt as a Skill and then only have to type a few letters next time to start the job rolling.

Here we’re going to show you how to create Claude Skills, the types of work task they excel at, and how you can tweak them to do exactly as you wish: https://www.techfinitive.com/explainers/claude-skills-explained-how-to-make-your-work-life-easier/

Here's how to create Claude Skills to save time and hassle at work, including the types of task they excel at and how to tweak them

11/09/2026

💡 From Davey Winder's desk comes an important question!

September’s Patch Tuesday saw Microsoft confirm an astonishing 973 security vulnerabilities. You would be correct to think that this is a wake-up call. However, I suggest one alarm needs to sound in the CISO’s office: Are you doing enough to support your security teams as patch counts continue to escalate dramatically?

With 119 critical-rated vulnerabilities, and two already added to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, I am not alone in suggesting that people as well as processes must be front and centre when it comes to your organisation’s response.

“What about your people?” asked Tyler Reguly, Associate Director of Security R&D, at Fortra. “How are they handling the current levels of patches and the tickets that those produce? Are they managing? Are they struggling? Have you even stopped to ask them?”

All excellent questions. While it’s necessary to audit patch processes in the wake of this new normal of AI-discovered vulnerabilities by the bucketload, forgetting the human aspect could prove very costly.

Reguly told me that it is “time to put our CISOs and CSOs on notice”. He argues that it’s imperative for them to be aware of the difficulties that their security teams are facing, and to consult them about how things can be improved.

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Are you doing enough to support your security team's mental health as patch counts continue to escalate dramatically?

10/09/2026

Is one laptop screen never enough for you? 💻🚀

Spotted live at IFA 2026 in Berlin: the Acer PD163Q P3 triple screen extender! Unfold three 15.6 inch 1080p panels to instantly transform your laptop into a massive four screen workstation. Perfect for travelers, multitasking pros, or anyone who wants Bloomberg, sports, and work open all at once!

10/09/2026

Last week we published an interview with Acer Chairman and CEO Jason Chen. What we didn’t reveal was that, before our Editor-in-Chief Tim Danton and Jason met, Tim asked him to pick out five products that helped to define Acer’s 50 years in business.

As you will see, we end up listing SIX products here. That’s because the way Acer reinvigorated its gaming brand Predator came in the form of two products. All will become clear.

Before we dive in, a quick word on Acer itself. While it’s now one of Taiwan’s most recognised brands, it started under the name Multitech on 1 August 1976. It had only a handful of employees, including its founder Stan Shih.
After five years of success, distributing components and providing consultancy to other technology companies, it created its first product…

Article here: https://www.techfinitive.com/features/a-history-of-acer-in-six-products-as-chosen-by-acer-ceo-jason-chen/

We asked Acer's Chairman and CEO to pick out a handful of products that helped to define the history of the company's 50 years in business.

10/09/2026

As part of our Opinions section, we invite industry professionals to share their views on the most pressing technology questions of our time. Here, Claus Wolthers, Director of Technology Partnerships and Ecosystems at Komprise , explores why AI projects increasingly depend on more than sophisticated models and infrastructure.

Read it here 👇

AI projects depend on AI-ready data. Discover why IT teams need stronger partnerships with security, data and business leaders to succeed.

10/09/2026

Google has warned that changes it’s been forced to make to search in Europe will “degrade” the service – though regulatory requirements are the least of the problems facing Google search these days.

Story here: https://www.techfinitive.com/opinions/google-moans-that-regulators-are-ruining-search-when-it-was-doing-a-perfectly-good-job-on-its-own/

Google has warned that changes it’s been forced to make to search in Europe will “degrade” the service – though it hardly needs assistance

10/09/2026

Forget manual display flipping! At IFA 2026, Lenovo’s ThinkBook Project Swan expands vertically at the touch of a button, giving you double the screen real estate instantly. Is this the future of mobile productivity?

10/09/2026

Deepfakes are becoming harder to spot, but the most concerning developments may not be the ones that make the headlines.

For Rob Harrison, SVP Product Management at Sophos, AI-generated voice deepfakes represent a particularly serious threat because they remove many of the visual and linguistic clues that have traditionally helped people identify fraud. As threat actors become better at using AI to personalise social engineering attacks, even experienced employees could find it harder to distinguish a genuine interaction from one engineered to manipulate them.

Harrison brings more than 25 years of experience in technology, having worked across national security, anti-financial crime and cybersecurity. That background gives him a perspective that goes beyond the latest security tools. While generative AI is lowering the technical barrier for would-be attackers, he argues that organisations also need to address weaknesses in identity and access management, improve employee awareness and make better use of AI on the defensive side.

In this interview, Harrison discusses why voice deepfakes could prove more dangerous than their video counterparts, how organisations can strengthen their defences against increasingly convincing social engineering, and why cybersecurity leaders face a strategic challenge that cannot simply be solved by buying more technology. He also explores the role of ethical hackers and how generative AI is becoming a force multiplier for both attackers and defenders.

Read it here: https://www.techfinitive.com/interviews/rob-harrison-svp-product-management-at-sophos/

Sophos’ Rob Harrison discusses AI deepfakes, voice phishing, generative AI and the cybersecurity challenges facing organisations.

10/09/2026

Shadow AI usually gets talked about as a security problem, whether that’s tools that IT doesn’t know exist or data moving through channels that nobody is actively monitoring. However, new modelling from Marketing Signals’ Subscription Creep Report suggests that it’s just as much a cost problem.

Individually expensed AI tools, covering everything from copywriting assistants to transcription tools, are up 108% year-on-year, and UK marketing departments alone are estimated to be losing £63.7m a year to subscriptions nobody remembers signing up to.

We spoke to Harry Nisbet, General Manager at Marketing Signals , who also led an internal review of the agency’s own software expenditure before the report went out: https://www.techfinitive.com/interviews/harry-nisbet-general-manager-at-marketing-signals/

Harry Nisbet discusses Marketing Signals' findings on subscription costs of AI tools and the impact on UK marketing budgets.