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Industries

Amazon Hogs the Road As Freight Speeds Toward the Future

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The company is opening up its less-than-truckload service to all businesses, letting anyone reserve space by the pallet in its trucks.

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Artificial Intelligence

Fortinet’s Earnings Beat Augurs Barnburner Returns as AI Security Threats Mount

Shares in Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company rose an eye-popping 20% Thursday, a day after executives reported an earnings beat.

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Artificial Intelligence

Oracle Regains Its Footing amid SaaSpocalypse

Filings this week also revealed that the value of Oracle’s roughly 15% stake in the new US edition of TikTok sits at about $2.2 billion.

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Technology

Memory Shortage Boosts Sandisk — and May Kill Personal Computers

Sandisk split off from data storage firm Western Digital to list independently in February last year just in time for the boom.

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Artificial Intelligence

Databricks Snags $4B in Funding as AI Keeps Investors Enthralled

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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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CIO Upside

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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CIO Upside

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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CIO Upside

Why Security and AI Need to Grow Hand in Hand

Zero trust might be the best place to start.

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