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May 28th, 2026

Today's top 2 stories, curated by Daily Direct.

Fortune

The CFOs steering Big Tech’s trillion-dollar AI bet

Finance chiefs at some of the most powerful technology companies in the world β€” Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, Oracle, OpenAI, and Nvidia β€” are all women. These CFOs are overseeing the trillion-dollar capital allocation decisions that will define the AI era, from data center buildouts to model development. It is a quiet but striking concentration of financial leadership at the exact moment the industry is placing its biggest bets.

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Fortune

A moonshot to avoid a $39 trillion national debt crisis will rely on AI productivity going even better than bulls are hoping for, says JPMorgan

The U.S. faces a staggering $39 trillion national debt trajectory, and JPMorgan warns that avoiding fiscal catastrophe may hinge on AI delivering productivity gains that exceed even the most optimistic projections. It's a high-stakes bet that places enormous weight on a technology still proving its economic impact at scale. If AI underdelivers, the math on America's debt problem gets considerably harder to solve.

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