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Atlanta Fed: Majority Of US Businesses Plan To Keep Or Reinvest Tariff Refunds The Atlanta Fed Macro blog looked at how firms were using their tariff refunds. They surveyed around 1100 C-suite executives and asked respondents to select all the options that applied to them. They found 75.2% were keeping the cash, 52.5% said they would reinvest it and 17.2% said they would give customer rebates. Only 14.8% said they would use it to lower prices. (via UBS)

🇺🇸 Chicago’s mayor said companies that want city contracts should have leaders who match the city’s racial mix 😳 Brandon Johnson signed an order this week that requires contractors show who sits in the C-suite and on the board. He also wants to know if they took big federal law-enforcement contracts, including ICE deportation work, and whether they have been accused of rights abuses, wage theft, or other dirty business. From the creators of "Go woke, go broke", now we have "Go woke, no tax for you, bloke!" Writer: Lucas

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The CIO mindset - CIOs are busy nowadays. CEOs want progress on AI, their C-Suite peers want AI transformation resources, and everyone wants to move fast. On the other hand the AI landscape is far from static, coding is a real use case, but costs are rising and headcount savings are being overwhelmed by increased demand. Other POCs on AI are still being figured out and ROI isn't fully realized. CIOs need to determine long term architectures, choose partners and technologies which will likely change a few times before we stabilize. On the day job, (non AI side), CIOs need to decide which SaaS contracts to commit to where to retain flexibility, how to deliver the promises already made with projects mid stream, and what to redirect to pay for the AI landslide. They need to find budget dollars to work on all of the following: Priorities 1. Figure out AI, evaluate, commit to clear ROI and keep your powder dry. 2. Deal with Mythos and prepare for a new world of Cyber, rethink point solves vs platforms. 3. Create capacity in budget for increasing AI usage. 4. Evaluate the vendor landscape and evaluate how the vendors will evolve and determine strategic redirection where needed. 5. Prioritize hardware purchases where compute and memory prices are going to be on the rise for the foreseeable future. This is normal in a technology super cycle. The CIOs will have to power through these dynamics. We are definitely seeing this in the equity markets with everyone trying to pick winners and losers. I think it's too early to draw long term conclusions. Customers are still adjusting to the economic realities of AI and reallocating spend, this reset is being reflected in the equity markets.