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Strong revenue performance sends IBM stock soaring after-hours
Nearly five years to the day after being named chief executive of IBM Corp., Arvind Krishna joined Chief Financial Officer James Kavanaugh in taking a victory lap today as the company posted strong fourth-quarter and full-year results, driven primarily by accelerating growth in software and infrastructure. Executives said IBM’s 9% quarterly revenue growth, the highest ...
AI TRUST & CYBER RESILIENCY SPECIAL REPORT
The biggest AI bottleneck isn’t GPUs. It’s data resilience
When Dun & Bradstreet Holdings Inc. set out to build a suite of analytical capabilities anchored in artificial intelligence three years ago, it confronted a problem that has become common across the enterprise AI landscape: how to scale up AI workflows without sacrificing trust in the underlying data. Trust wasn’t a negotiable issue. The company’s ...
Databricks reports finds surge in AI agent adoption despite governance bottlenecks
Databricks Inc.’s 2026 State of AI Agents report, released today, documents rapid growth in the use of artificial intelligence agents within enterprises but acknowledges that few are deploying the technology at large scale. The use of multi-agent workflows grew 327% over four months, driven by the rapid introduction of agent orchestration features. However, only 19% ...
Obsidian Security targets rising tide of SaaS integration threats
Obsidian Security Inc. today released a new suite of capabilities aimed at securing the software-as-a-service supply chain, offering what the company calls the first end-to-end protection for integrations between cloud-based applications. The release comes as businesses increasingly rely on interconnected SaaS environments and autonomous artificial intelligence agents embedded in workflows. The company said such integrations, while ...
Tacnode emerges from stealth with a data infra platform tuned to AI agents
Tacnode Inc. today emerged from stealth mode with a new data infrastructure platform designed to enable artificial intelligence agents to reason and act over a shared, up-to-date representation of enterprise context. The company’s Tacnode Context Lake technology and Semantic Operators feature form what it describes as a “context layer” for agent-based systems. Context Lake is intended ...
MongoDB combines database and embedding models for simplified AI development
MongoDB Inc. is making its play for the hearts and minds of artificial intelligence developers and entrepreneurs with today’s announcement of a series of new capabilities designed to help developers move applications from prototype to production more quickly. They include the general availability of the Voyage 4 family of embedding models and a planned expansion ...
IBM launches cloud platform tuned for digital sovereignty requirements
IBM Corp. today introduced a software platform designed to give enterprises and governments more direct control over artificial intelligence and cloud workloads in response to tightening sovereignty and compliance demands. The new offering, called IBM Sovereign Core, allows organizations to deploy and manage workloads under the customer’s operational authority and within a single jurisdiction. The ...
Wasabi’s cloud storage service gets $70M funding boost
Wasabi Technologies Inc. today said it has raised $70 million in new equity financing at a $1.8 billion valuation as the Boston-based cloud storage provider moves aggressively into artificial intelligence infrastructure and cyber-resilient data services. The infusion brings Wasabi’s total funding to more than $600 million and comes amid mounting demand for storage optimized for ...
Red Hat pledges day-zero support for Nvidia’s newest GPUs
IBM Corp. subsidiary Red Hat is moving more aggressively than usual to ensure its software stacks are ready the moment new generations of Nvidia Corp.’s artificial intelligence hardware reach the market, a strategy executives said is driven by surging demand for larger and more capable AI model architectures. The company disclosed this week that Red ...
SAP expands AI options for retailers
SAP SE is using the National Retail Federation’s 2026 Big Show to outline a set of new artificial intelligence features that embed planning, operations, fulfillment and commerce more tightly into its retail software portfolio. The company said the updates are intended to help retailers manage increasingly complex operations as customer engagement shifts toward AI-driven discovery ...