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New research from venture capital firm Madrona reveals 74% of enterprise IT professionals plan to expand their AI budgets in the next year, but only half of AI pilots make it to full production. Enterprises reevaluate AI vendors every 6 months or even on a rolling basis, …
Palo Alto Networks has acquired Console, a two-year-old startup that uses AI agents for IT help desk tasks, for $500M in cash and stock.
Google has launched its Fairwind Program, providing governments and trusted partners with advanced AI cyber defense capabilities, including Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and CodeMender, to autonomously find and fix vulnerabilities at scale.
Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months
Israeli-Dutch AI startup Wonderful has secured $550 million in Series C funding, pushing its valuation to $5 billion, more than double its previous valuation just six months prior.
Arga Labs secured $10 million in seed funding to develop digital twin environments for training enterprise AI agents, addressing the difficulty of testing agents in complex business software like Salesforce and Workday.
Runlayer and Rippling dropped their respective lawsuits against each other without a settlement. This public fight is a cautionary tale to founders: In the age of AI, when building new software has become almost trivial, you never know who your next competitor will be.
Apple @ Work Podcast host Bradley Chambers discusses AI's future in enterprise with Shirish Nimgaonkar from eBlissAI, focusing on endpoint management and agentic solutions.
IBM has partnered with OpenAI to bring the AI company's models and tools to more enterprise customers, opening another avenue for OpenAI to connect with some of the world's largest companies through IBM's global consulting business.
Anthropic is making auto mode the default for its Claude Code AI model, starting August 14. This change aims to balance speed and control, with auto mode catching 89% of harmful actions in testing.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp warns that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises, comparing them to Marxist socialism. The company reported a record-breaking quarter with $1.9 billion in revenue and $1.1 billion in profit.
Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 has raised a $250 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation, more than tripling its valuation in 14 months. The company is riding growing enterprise demand for its AI-powered security testing platform.
Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI and Anthropic by selling its own homegrown AI models, including the MAI family, on its own AI chips, Maya. CEO Satya Nadella is pitching Microsoft as an alternative to the upscale services developed by OpenAI and Anthropic, promis…
Encore AI, a startup that studies companies' customer interactions to train and deploy AI voice agents, has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Team8. The company's platform analyzes conversations between a company's employees and customers to identify successfu…
Runlayer, a startup that offers a secure Model Context Protocol gateway, has filed a lawsuit against HR software startup Rippling, accusing it of stealing its product idea. The lawsuit claims that Rippling used Runlayer's intellectual property and source code during a pro…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns companies that rely too heavily on AI labs for their AI needs may not survive. He suggests that companies should hold on to their own usage data and build their own models to avoid being dependent on a single AI provider.
Intel performed thousands of agentic AI workload experiments to understand the dependencies for running agents in the enterprise environment. The findings create five practical lessons for enterprise leaders.
ServiceNow has invested $40 million in Indian banking software specialist BusinessNext, valuing the company at $700 million and taking a roughly 5% stake. The deal gives BusinessNext access to ServiceNow's global sales network as the companies expand their partnership in …
IBM reported a significantly disappointing quarter, missing Wall Street expectations due to a 42% drop in its mainframe business, causing its stock to tank 25%. Despite this, CEO Arvind Krishna insists the decline is a temporary blip, not a sign of AI killing the mainframe.
Israeli workplace software maker Monday.com is laying off hundreds of employees as part of a restructuring plan to refocus its investments around AI projects.
OpenAI built support agents for its own customer service line, now it hopes big enterprises will trust them too
OpenAI has built support agents for its own customer service line and now hopes big enterprises will trust them too. The company has been working on developing AI-powered customer service tools for its own use and is now looking to expand its reach to other businesses.
Synthesia has launched Roleplay Sessions, an AI-powered platform for employees to practice high-stakes conversations with avatars and receive feedback, moving beyond its previous video generation focus.
Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, focusing on efficiency and cost-effectiveness for AI agents. The release notably omits the anticipated Gemini 3.5 Pro, which faces internal delays.
Microsoft is working to fix a known issue affecting Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) servers, which has caused synchronization problems for more than a week. WSUS was introduced almost twenty years ago to help IT administrators schedule updates for Microsoft products…
Attackers have begun exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-6875) in the ServiceNow AI Platform, according to threat intelligence company Defused. The flaw allows unauthenticated threat actors to escape the sandbox and execute code remotely within the ServiceNow pl…
Microsoft has observed a surge in attacks using the ACR Stealer malware to steal browser-stored passwords, authentication tokens, and sensitive documents from its enterprise customers.
Databricks announced a new funding round valuing the company at $188 billion, marking a significant increase from its $62 billion valuation just 1.5 years ago, driven by its successful pivot to AI.
Israeli startup Oak is stepping out of stealth to fill the gap in identity management for humans and AI agents in digital environments. The company has raised $60 million in seed funding and is now emerging publicly with its product generally available and already deploye…
Velocity, a startup developing software for stablecoin treasury infrastructure, has raised $38 million in a Series A funding round. The company plans to use the capital to expand its banking and payments network, develop new products, and strengthen its regulatory capabil…
Reflection AI, a U.S. startup, has signed a $1 billion compute deal with European AI infrastructure company, Nebius. This deal will provide Reflection access to Nvidia's latest chips.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has warned companies using AI that they are paying twice: once with money and again with valuable data. He argues that enterprises are handing over proprietary knowledge to AI model makers, which can then use it to become competitors.