TMtechmemeSources: Palo Alto Networks paid $500M in cash and stock to acquire agentic IT support startup Console; PitchBook: Console was valued at $157M before the sale (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Thoma Bravo-backed Proofpoint is in talks to acquire cybersecurity company Varonis; Varonis rose 10.4% on Wednesday, giving it a market value of ~$5.4B (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMuse Spark 1.3 with max reasoning, in limited preview for partners, scores 62 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, behind only Fable 5.1 and Opus 5 (@artificialanlys)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeHPE reports Q3 revenue up 34% YoY to $12.2B, vs. $11.9B est., forecasts FY 2026 and FY 2027 sales growth above est., signs a $3.5B server deal with a cloud firm (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeBroadcom reports Q3 revenue up 86% YoY to $29.59B, vs. $29.36B est., AI semiconductor revenue up 221% to $16.7B, and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates (Jordan Novet/CNBC)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSnowflake reports Q2 revenue up 35% YoY to $1.55B, vs. $1.48B est., and forecasts Q3 and FY 2027 product revenue above estimates; SNOW jumps 20%+ after hours (MarketWatch)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeLetter: OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing "automated shutdown capabilities" for AI systems (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMark Zuckerberg says Meta's Watermelon model and Muse Spark open weights are "coming soon" (Mark Zuckerberg/@finkd)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMeta rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and Meta Model API, saying it significantly improves coding and agentic performance, at the same price as Spark 1.2 (Ina Fried/Axios)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeUber is shutting down services in Nigeria and Uganda from September 2 after a global review of its operations; it launched in Nigeria in 2014 and Uganda in 2016 (Bloomberg)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeX says US payouts for its Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions will now be handled through X Money (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThyme Care, which focuses on filling gaps in cancer treatment through a virtual navigation platform, raised a $125M Series E at a $2B+ valuation (Ian Thomas/CNBC)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeCommerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says "we trust Anthropic" as they are "back on the right side" with the administration and that "they've done what we asked" (Maria Curi/Axios)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeHuskeys, which uses agentic AI to help companies block AI-driven attacks, raised a $27M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments at a $100M+ valuation (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThe US Army awards $192M in contracts to Palantir and Anduril to produce eight TITAN AI-powered mobile ground stations, to be delivered over the next 18 months (Barratt Dewey/Tectonic Defense)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMrBeast, whose YouTube channel recently hit 500M subs, will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in his videos as part of a multi-year Google deal (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGoogle launches Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for partners in its new Fairwind Program, and says Gemini 3.8 Flash beats Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on some benchmarks (Google)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGoogle launches Gemini 3.8 Flash, three weeks after 3.7 Flash launch, for an introductory price of $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens until December 31 (Abner Li/9to5Google)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAustin-based HiddenLayer, which makes security tools to protect AI models, agents, and workflows, raised a $100M Series B led by Delta-v Capital (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThe Trump administration files a brief supporting OpenAI in its dispute with NYT, saying training LLMs on copyrighted works generally constitutes fair use (Blake Brittain/Reuters)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→