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Rubrik posts narrower loss and strong revenue growth in second quarter
Shares in Rubrik Inc. sagged more than 4% in late trading today despite the company reporting better-than-expected earnings and revenue in its fiscal 2026 second quarter and giving guidance ahead of what analysts were expecting. For the quarter that ended on July 31, Rubrik reported an adjusted earnings per share loss of three cents, down ...
BlackLine launches Verity AI to create a trusted digital workforce for finance
Financial automation software company BlackLine Inc. today announced the launch of Verity, a new suite of artificial intelligence capabilities that provide finance and accounting teams with a new digital workforce of embedded, auditable AI. Verity has been built on the BlackLine’s Studio360 platform and its unified data layer to ensure integrity, accelarate resolution and provide ...
JFrog unveils AI era platform upgrades for software supply chains
Software supply chain company JFrog Ltd. today announced a new range of product releases that it’s calling a turning point in how enterprises deliver, secure and govern artificial intelligence software. The new releases, announced at the JFrog swampUP 2025 conference in Napa, California, include JFrog Fly, JFrog AppTrust, a new Evidence Ecosystem, agentic remediation capabilities and the JFrog AI ...
Vanta expands AI capabilities to unify compliance and risk management
Artificial intelligence-powered trust management company Vanta Inc. today announced a new set of capabilities that embeds AI across core compliance and risk workflows. The new capabilities unify policy management with Vanta AI Agent, offer continuous monitoring for vendors and provide risk oversight and deeper integrations that give security leaders a single system to record to ...
Geordie launches with $6.5M in funding to bring security to agentic AI adoption
Security startup Geordie AI Ltd. launched today and announced that it has raised $6.5 million in funding to scale up its agent-native platform. The company says the platform gives enterprises real-time visibility, risk intelligence and proactive control to adopt and govern agentic artificial intelligence safely. The offering is seeking to address the issue that as enterprises ...
Microsoft turns to Nebius in nearly $20B AI infrastructure deal
Microsoft Corp. has signed a deal with artificial intelligence infrastructure provider Nebius Group N.V. worth up to nearly $20 billion to provide dedicated GPU infrastructure capacity from its new data center in Vineland, New Jersey, starting later this year. The deal is worth $17.4 billion over five years, with a pre-purchased option clause extending the ...
Massive npm hack poisons 18 packages with billions of downloads
Aikido Security Ltd. today disclosed what is being described as the largest npm supply chain compromise to date, after attackers injected malware into 18 popular packages that together account for more than 2.6 billion weekly downloads. Npm packages are reusable blocks of JavaScript code published to the Node Package Manager registry that developers can install ...
RavenDB launches database-native ‘AI Agent Creator’ for faster enterprise adoption
High-performance NoSQL database provider RavenDB Ltd. today announced the launch of AI Agent Creator, a feature fully integrated into the database that it claims reduces the time required to build AI agents from weeks, months or even years to just days. The new offering helps overcome the issues of artificial intelligence adoption, where embedding agents ...
Microsoft warns of latency as Red Sea cable cuts disrupt internet across Middle East and South Asia
Microsoft Corp. is warning that Azure customers in the Middle East may face latency issues following undersea cables being cut in the Red Sea off Saudi Arabia. The cable cuts started to affect traffic in the region from 5:45 a.m. UTC (1:45 a.m. EDT) on Saturday, Sept. 6. Azure network traffic was not interrupted as ...
Augment raises $85M to expand AI ‘teammate’ for logistics
Artificial intelligence productivity platform startup Augment Technologies Inc. announced today that it has raised $85 million in early-stage funding to accelerate the development of Augie, Augment’s flagship AI teammate for logistics. It also aims to apply the Series A round to expand Augie to more end-to-end logistics workflows for shippers, brokers, carriers and distributors. Founded in ...









