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Editor · London
Eleanor Whitcombe
Eleanor edits AI Business Reality Check and writes on how companies turn AI spending into something that shows up in the accounts. She spent two decades as a business journalist covering corporate strategy, outsourcing and the long, unglamorous history of enterprise software projects that promised more than they delivered. She is sceptical of pilots that never end and of any forecast measured in trillions.
Technology Correspondent · London
Rajiv Menon
Rajiv covers the AI laboratories and the cloud giants that sell their wares. Trained as a software engineer before turning to journalism, he reads model cards and pricing pages so readers do not have to, and is interested chiefly in the gap between what a product launch claims and what a mid-sized firm can actually buy, deploy and support.
Regulation & Policy Editor · London
Siobhan Clarke
Siobhan writes about the rules: data protection, competition and the slowly accreting body of AI policy in Westminster, Brussels and Washington. A former legal-affairs reporter, she specialises in translating consultations and commencement orders into what a business must do, by when, and what happens if it does not.
Cyber Resilience Correspondent · Manchester
Daniel Okafor
Daniel reports on breaches, vulnerabilities and the security consequences of bolting AI onto ordinary business systems. He previously covered incident response for the trade press and has a habit of asking vendors the question their press release avoids: who is liable when it goes wrong?
US Business Correspondent · New York
Margaret Lund
Margaret covers American companies, investors and policymakers from New York. She has reported on Wall Street, retail and small-business lending, and now tracks how AI is changing hiring, pricing and productivity across the American economy — and whether the numbers executives cite on earnings calls survive scrutiny.
Data & Research Correspondent · Cambridge
Thomas Achterberg
Thomas writes about the evidence: academic research, official statistics and the surveys that underpin claims about AI and productivity. An economist by training, he has a weakness for methodology sections and a low tolerance for charts without axes.
Small Business Correspondent · Birmingham
Priya Sandhu
Priya covers the firms that make up most of the economy and little of the coverage: owner-managed businesses, high-street retailers and regional manufacturers. She writes about what AI costs them, what it saves, and the skills, trust and cash-flow questions that decide whether they adopt it at all.