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Palantir rallies as revenue jumps 70% and guidance leaves Wall Street behind
Shares in Palantir Technologies Inc. rose more than 5% in late trading today after the big data analytics company reported fourth-quarter earnings and revenue ahead of expectations and provided guidance well ahead of expectations. For the quarter that ended on Dec. 31, Palantir reported adjusted earnings per share of 25 cents, up from 14 cents ...
Cisco Foundation AI debuts agentic security tools to protect autonomous AI systems
Cisco Foundation AI, Cisco System Inc.’s research and engineering group focused on building foundational artificial intelligence technologies, today announced a suite of new agentic security tools. They’re designed to help enterprises secure AI systems as they become more autonomous, interconnected and embedded across business operations. The new releases are focused on allowing AI systems to reason ...
PwC expands Google Cloud alliance with $400M push into AI-driven security operations
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP today announced an expanded alliance with Google Cloud that includes a $400 million, three-year collaboration to help organizations modernize security operations and strengthen cyber resilience through artificial intelligence-driven, intelligence-led defense. The expanded collaboration builds on work that PwC and Google Cloud are already doing to support organizations that are facing increasingly complex cyberthreats, ...
Ethos shares slide 11% after life insurance platform debuts on Nasdaq
Insurance platform company Ethos Technologies Inc. saw its shares close down more than 11% on its first day of trading after the company made its debut on the Nasdaq this morning. The company priced its initial public offering at $19 per share and raised roughly $200 million from the sale of 10.5 million shares on ...
Sandisk, Western Digital beat expectations as cloud and AI data center storage demand accelerates
Shares in both Sandisk Corp. and Western Digital Corp. rosein late trading today after both impressed with better-than-expected quarterly results, benefiting from rising storage demand as cloud and artificial intelligence data center workloads continue to grow. For its fiscal 2026 second quarter that ended on Jan. 2, Sandisk reported adjusted earnings per share of $6.20, ...
Tesla earnings top estimates as Musk pivots company from cars to robots
Shares of Tesla Inc. rose slightly in after-hours trading today after the company beat expectations in its fiscal fourth quarter and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk announced major changes that will shift Tesla’s identity beyond car manufacturing. For the quarter that ended on Dec. 31, Tesla reported adjusted earnings per share of 50 cents, down ...
Decagon AI raises $250M at $4.5B valuation to scale AI concierge platform
Artificial intelligence concierge for every customer company Decagon AI Inc., which offers an artificial intelligence “concierge” for customers, today revealed that it has raised $250 million in new late-stage funding on a $4.5 billion valuation. Founded in 2023, Decagon offers advanced conversational AI agents that are designed to transform how businesses interact with their customers ...
Waabi raises $750M as Uber separately commits up to $250M for robotaxi partnership
Canadian autonomous truck startup Waabi Innovation Inc. announced today that it has raised $750 million in new funding and secured a separate, milestone-based future investment of up to $250 million from Uber Technologies Inc. The latter deal is to support a new partnership to deploy robotaxis powered by the Waabi Driver exclusively on the Uber platform. As ...
Dynatrace Intelligence aims to advance autonomous software operations
Artificial intelligence observability platform company Dynatrace Inc. today announced a set of platform updates at its Perform Conference in Las Vegas that included the debut of Dynatrace Intelligence, a new agentic operations system designed to bring enterprises closer to reliable, autonomous software operations. The launch marks the next phase in the evolution of the Dynatrace ...
Mesh Security raises $12M to scale cybersecurity mesh execution platform
Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture platform startup Mesh Security Inc. announced today that it has raised $12 million in new early-stage funding. The money will be used to advance its autonomous, agentic capabilities, expand how the platform reasons over cross-domain attack path, and enable system-level remediation while scaling sales and customer support to meet growing enterprise demand. Founded ...









