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Qualcomm shares surge on earnings beat, $20B buyback and data center timeline
Shares in Qualcomm Inc. rose more than 15% in late trading today after the chipmaker reported earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2026 second quarter and announced a fresh $20 billion share buyback authorization alongside a firm timeline for its long-awaited data center entry. For the quarter that ended on March 29, Qualcomm reported ...
Wiz finds AI has moved from tool to infrastructure, broadening the attack surface
A new report out today from Google LLC-owned cloud security company Wiz Inc. finds that artificial intelligence has shifted from experimental tooling to default cloud infrastructure, with 81% of observed environments running managed AI services and 90% running self-hosted AI software. The State of AI in the Cloud 2026 report used anonymized configuration metadata, AI asset ...
Auvik launches Aurora AI agents to speed ticket resolution and prevent outages
Information technology management software provider Auvik Networks Inc. today announced the launch of Auvik Aurora: artificial intelligence-powered IT agents that are designed to help IT professionals proactively manage, troubleshoot and optimize their networks. The company says the new agent offering was purpose-built for network and infrastructure management and works out of the box with no complex setup ...
Deepgram expands Flux to 10 languages with mid-call switching for voice agents
Real-time voice artificial intelligence startup Deepgram Inc. today announced the general availability of Flux Multilingual, an extension of its Flux conversational speech recognition model to 10 languages with real-time language detection and the ability to switch languages mid-call. The extended model is being pitched by the company as the first multilingual conversational speech recognition model, a category it ...
Lookout launches mobile-native tool to expose shadow AI on enterprise devices
Cybersecurity company Lookout Inc. today announced the launch of Lookout AI Visibility & Governance, a new mobile-native solution designed to provide organizations with the visibility needed to discover, govern and secure artificial intelligence adoption across their mobile ecosystem. The new offering provides a missing layer of visibility that allows organizations to identify shadow AI activity on mobile ...
Command Zero opens its autonomous security operations center platform with APIs and an MCP server
Cyber investigations platform provider Command Zero Inc. today released a set of application programming interface endpoints and a Model Context Protocol server for its autonomous security operations center platform that allows customers to drive threat hunts, investigations and remediation programmatically rather than through the vendor’s console. The new endpoints let security operations teams wire Command Zero’s ...
Robinhood shares drop on Q1 miss as crypto trading revenue tumbles 47%
Shares in Robinhood Markets Inc. fell more than 8% in late trading today after the financial services company reported earnings and revenue below analyst expectations in its fiscal 2026 first quarter. For the quarter that ended on March 31, Robinhood reported diluted adjusted earnings per share of 38 cents per share, up a penny from ...
Aranya debuts cluster-scale operating system, partners with Hydra Host on ‘bare-metal AI’
Aranya Inc., a startup building a cluster-scale operating system built to meet demand for the next generation of supercomputer, launched today with major partnerships with top artificial intelligence inference leaders. One of the company’s first partnerships is with Hydra Host Inc., an Nvidia Corp. cloud partner focused on bare-metal deployments. Hydra Host chose Aranya’s flagship ...
Liquid Instruments lands $50M to scale AI-driven test and measurement platform
Software-defined test and measurement startup Liquid Instruments Pty. Ltd. today announced that it has raised $50 million in new funding to accelerate product development, scale up its artificial intelligence-powered platform and expand go-to-market in aerospace, defense and semiconductor verticals. Founded in 2014 with offices in San Diego and Canberra, Australia, Liquid Instruments sells reconfigurable test ...
Silverfort acquires Fabrix Security to bring AI decision-making to runtime access control
Unified identity security company Silverfort Inc. today announced that it has acquired Fabrix Security Ltd., an artificial intelligence-native identity security company, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2024, Fabrix offers an AI-native identity security platform aimed at enterprise identity and access management teams. The company’s offering is designed to help identity and access management teams make faster ...









