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Nicholas Lee, former CEO of Fujitsu Intelligence, has taken the top job at cybersecurity firm Armor, becoming that company’s new CEO. Nicholas Lee spent much of his career at Fujitsu, where he built managed security and services businesses. As CEO of Fujitsu Intelligence, Lee was instrumental in building and scaling the company’s AI and data

When an AI agent takes an action nobody approved, CrowdStrike wants its Falcon platform to be where a company finds out what happened and why. The cybersecurity company said Tuesday it has signed definitive agreements to buy two startups: Fiddler AI, which tracks and explains what agents do, and Dreadnode, which attacks AI models and

Shopify’s operating expenses rose 16% in the third quarter while its revenue climbed 32%, and that gap lifted operating income about 66% to $568 million, the commerce software company said in its quarterly results Tuesday morning. Revenue came to $3.74 billion, up from $2.84 billion a year earlier. That was a hair under the roughly

Samsung announced it is discontinuing its Samsung News service, notifying users via an in-app message. Samsung News is one of several Samsung-branded apps included on the company’s line of Galaxy devices. Samsung is known for creating compelling apps of its own, even when they sometimes overlap with Google’s Android offerings. Periodically, the company has discontinued

AI Shopping Assistant and Guided Commerce Trends More shoppers now ask AI tools what to buy before they visit an online or physical store. Product discovery is moving from search boxes and category grids to conversations, and the brands best placed for that shift will have an AI shopping assistant that asks the right questions,

In bad news for ChatGPT’s ad business, a new study indicates that the company’s ads generate far less revenue per visit than traditional Google Search ads. The report comes by way of researchers at WU Vienna and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. In their report, they acknowledge that advertising could be a way

Salesforce wants a bigger piece of what happens when a customer picks up the phone. The company said Monday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cresta, a startup whose voice agents resolve complex customer calls end to end and whose software guides human representatives in real time. Salesforce didn’t put a price on

Palantir Technologies said Monday that its U.S. commercial business brought in more revenue than its U.S. government business for the first time in the company’s history, as third-quarter sales rose 96% from a year earlier to $2.313 billion. The data analytics and AI software company also raised its full-year outlook for both total and U.S.

Apple topped Wall Street’s targets in John Ternus’ first earnings report as chief executive, posting fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $114.5 billion, up 12% from a year earlier, and diluted earnings of $2.10 a share. Analysts polled by LSEG had expected $113.39 billion in revenue and EPS of $1.99, CNBC reported ahead of the release. The

OpenAI is trying to overcome growing opposition to data center construction with a new program aimed at reducing the load on power grids in times of need. AI infrastructure developers and officials are facing growing opposition to data centers. People are concerned with the strain on power grids, how much water data centers consume, and