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Cognition, creator of the AI software engineer Devin, in talks to raise ‘hundreds of millions’ at $25B valuation
Artificial intelligence coding assistant startup Cognition AI Inc. is engaged in discussions with investors over another massive funding round that would more than double its valuation to $25 billion, Bloomberg reported today. The report cites “people familiar with the matter” as saying that Cognition is trying to tap into the growing momentum around AI-generated code ...
SAP posts solid earnings results to shrug off latest software stock slaughter
Shares of the European enterprise software maker SAP SE registered solid gains in late trading today after the company delivered earnings results that beat expectations. The company’s American depository receipts gained more than 6% in the after-hours trading session, reversing a decline of just over 6% that occurred in regular trading, prior to the results ...
Intel crushes Wall Street’s expectations and its stock surges 20% as revival gains pace
Intel Corp. crushed analysts’ expectations as it delivered its first-quarter earnings results today, in a sign that its efforts to turn around its business under Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan could be finally starting to pay off. The chipmaker reported solid earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 29 cents per share, way ahead ...
Rilian raises $17.5M to automate security software procurement and deployment in the defense sector
A startup called Rilian that’s building agentic systems integration tools for companies operating in the defense and national security industries, said today it has raised $17.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by 8VC, Tamarack Global and First In, and saw participation from defense technology specialists such as 8090 Industries, Liquid 2 Venture ...
Salesforce and Google partner on agentic cross-platform collaboration
Salesforce Inc. said today it’s trying to break down the siloes that separate enterprise’s customer relationship management data from their productivity tools, specifically for artificial intelligence agents. It’s doing so by expanding its partnership with Google Cloud, unveiling a deep set of integrations that will enable autonomous agents to work seamlessly across both company’s ecosystems. The ...
OpenAI subscribers get new ‘workspace agents’ to automate complex tasks across teams
OpenAI Group PBC said today it’s pushing ChatGPT outside its usual chat interface with the launch of “workspace agents,” which is a new feature that allows business users to automate recurring tasks, even when their human employees aren’t online. In a blog post today, OpenAI explained that its workspace agents are powered by the Codex ...
ServiceNow’s stock skids as Middle East conflict drags on revenue
ServiceNow Inc. today delivered first-quarter results that surpassed Wall Street’s expectations, but its stock fell hard in late trading after it said the ongoing war in Iran was dragging on its subscription revenue. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 97 cents per share, edging past the Street’s target of ...
AWS accelerates AI agent development in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it’s taking steps toward simplifying the creation of the underlying infrastructure for new autonomous artificial intelligence agents. With an update to its Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform today, developers can access a new “managed agent harness” feature and command-line tools that eliminate the manually intensive backend work that slows down ...
Commvault brings its full suite of data backup and resilience capabilities to Google Cloud
Commvault Systems Inc. is deepening its integration with Google LLC’s cloud platform in order to help bolster the defenses of modern “agentic enterprises” and enhance their data resilience. At Google Cloud Next 2026, the company announced today that it’s bringing the full Commvault Cloud platform to Google’s hyperscale cloud infrastructure. In addition, it’s bringing specialized, ...
Google delivers connective tissue for autonomous AI agents to access data without restrictions
Google Cloud is turning the traditional enterprise data platform on its head, unveiling the Agentic Data Cloud infrastructure platform that aims to act as a kind of central nerve center for the era of artificial intelligence agents. In a blog post, Andi Gutmans, Google’s vice president and general manager of Data Cloud, explains that existing ...