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Finance

Barnburner Figma IPO Offers Good Omen as Klarna Reconsiders Debut

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The company’s shares soared 250% in their New York Stock Exchange debut, yielding a market capitalization of $47 billion.

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CIO Upside

Demand for Cloud, Data and Cybersecurity Skills Outranks AI

Employees can leverage AI more effectively when they possess the other skills

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M&A

Palo Alto Networks Broadens Cybersecurity Consolidation With $25B Deal

With CyberArk, Palo Alto enters into the “identity security” market, now at an “inflection point” due to the rise of agentic AI.

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Microsoft SharePoint Attacks Show Weaknesses of On-Prem Storage vs. Cloud

‘Given enough of an attack surface … it is going to be attacked’

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Big Tech

Google Search Weathers AI Storm — For Now

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The cannibalization of traditional search by AI chatbots is difficult to quantify, though by all accounts AI is already taking some nibbles.

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Big Tech

Microsoft Stock Unfazed by Hack Threatening Thousands of Customers

The vulnerability exploited by the attack only affects on-premise Sharepoint servers, meaning clients using the cloud version are unaffected.

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Why ‘Go Big or Go Home’ Doesn’t Work for AI

AI doesn’t need to make radical changes to have real impact, said Jared Coyle, chief AI officer at SAP Americas.

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Why Security and AI Need to Grow Hand in Hand

Zero trust might be the best place to start.

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Semiconductors

After Reclaiming ‘World’s Most Valuable Company’ Crown, Nvidia Gilds the Tiara

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In the past month, Nvidia shares have surged 18.8%, more than the rest of the Magnificent Seven, including Microsoft.

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Does Agentic AI Have Staying Power?

‘Humanity’s never automated intelligence before in the way that we’re doing it now.’

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Artificial Intelligence

Salesforce Boosts Bet on Agentic AI With $8B Informatica Takeover

Salesforce’s offer beat out competitors including Cloud Software Group and Thoma Bravo, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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Microsoft Patent Weeds Out False Alarms in AI-Powered Cloud Security

Though cloud demand is bursting, AI has a habit of making cybersecurity tricky.

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Google Patent Makes Cloud Infrastructure Simpler

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Patenting this kind of tech could benefit Google in more ways than one.

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