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Qualtrics CEO Jason Maynard shook up the company’s senior leadership team on Friday at its dual headquarters in downtown Seattle and Provo, Utah, less than three months after taking the helm of the experience management technology company. Read More
Amazon Web Services Inc. has inked a multiyear deal to supply Meta Platforms Inc. with cloud infrastructure. Bloomberg reported today that the agreement is worth billions of dollars. The deal centers on AWS’ Graviton family of internally-developed central processing units. According to the company,
When a company such as Google LLP demonstrates leadership in large-scale data systems, advantages can begin to accrue in areas not readily apparent from the keynote speeches and press releases. One of these involves the sovereign cloud. Google itself made no major announcements during Google Cloud N
During Operation Lunar Peek in November 2024, attackers gained unauthenticated remote admin access — and eventual root — across more than 13,000 exposed Palo Alto Networks management interfaces. Palo Alto Networks scored CVE-2024-0012 at 9.3 and CVE-2024-9474 at 6.9 under CVSS v4.0. NVD scored the s
Public sector organizations are at an inflection point, one where the combination of domain-specific data and agentic enterprise intelligence is producing measurable, life-changing outcomes for the populations they serve — outcomes that legacy manual workflows could never achieve at scale. Covered C
Chinese artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek today released a new series of open-source large language models. V4, as the algorithm family is called, comprises 2 LLMs on launch. There’s the flagship V4-Pro and a smaller model called V4-Flash that trades off some output quality for lower hardwa
Enterprise AI is shifting from hype to measurable outcomes, with success now depending on seamless integration and balancing automation with the human element. But the gap between a compelling AI demo and a deployment that actually changes outcomes isn’t the model — it’s everything built around it,
As AI accelerates enterprise transformation, it is simultaneously widening the attack surface organizations must defend — and compressing the time defenders have to respond. The convergence of geopolitical tension, AI-powered adversaries and a surging wave of agent deployments has pushed agentic def
As enterprises pivot from AI experimentation to production deployment, AI storage infrastructure is emerging as the critical bottleneck determining whether massive chip investments deliver real returns. The central challenge for running large-scale AI workloads has shifted from building models to ke
Intercom Inc. is expanding the role of its Fin artificial intelligence customer agent beyond customer support for the first time, positioning it as a sales assistant that operates across all stages of the customer lifecycle. The new “Fin for Sales” capability allows the same AI agent to handle inter
Organizations racing to deploy agentic AI are discovering that raw model performance is only part of the equation — context engineering is the key to managing decades of unstructured, ungoverned data trapped inside legacy information management systems. As Google Cloud Next 2026 signals a complete p
For years, AI conversations at major tech events centered almost exclusively on large enterprises, leaving small and medium-sized businesses on the margins of a transformation reshaping the global economy. That dynamic is now shifting fast, as SMB AI adoption moves from cautious pilots to real workf
This week, just half of the top 10 rounds crossed the $100 million mark, which is somewhat unusual in this high-flying era for venture megarounds. Nonetheless some large checks did get written, led by Amazon’s $5 billion investment and partnership deal with Anthropic.
Pudu Technology Inc., a leading developer of intelligent service robotics, has raised nearly $150 million in a new funding round. With this capital raise, announced Thursday, the company exceeded $1.5 billion in valuation and has reached over $300 million in total funding. The architect of a variety
The whale has resurfaced. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup offshoot of High-Flyer Capital Management quantitative analysis firm, became a near-overnight sensation globally in January 2025 with the release of its open source R1 model that matched proprietary U.S. giants. It's been an epoch in AI sinc
Facebook parent Meta signed a deal to deploy tens of millions of Amazon's Graviton5 processor cores for agentic AI workloads, the latest major customer win for Amazon's growing custom silicon business. Read More
Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this year’s events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, is getting a new addition to its increasingly stacked lineup of speakers. Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga will join the rest of the lineup to discuss op
Enterprise AI deployments are accelerating, but the velocity of change in models, tools and platforms is quietly creating a new and costly trap: costly failure to build for AI architectural replaceability. As Google Cloud Next 2026 confirms that agentic AI has become the organizing logic for the ent
At Cloud Next this week in Las Vegas, Google made its case this week that it has all the pieces — literally the entire “stack” of technologies from chips to models to data management platforms — needed to provide essentially the operating system for AI agents, the autonomous software that is the onl
