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Alphabet crushes expectations, with cloud, AI and search all showing strength
April 25, 2025  00:21:45
Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google LLC and YouTube, delivered better-than-expected results as it posted its first-quarter earnings report today, lifting its stock more than 4% after-hours. The internet search and cloud computing giant reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.81 per share, crushing Wall Street’s target of just $2.01 […]

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Meta cuts jobs at its Reality Labs mixed reality unit
April 24, 2025  22:55:35
Meta Platforms Inc. is cutting jobs at its Reality Labs unit, which makes the company’s Quest mixed reality headsets and the software that powers them. The Facebook parent announced the layoffs today. A source told Bloomberg that more than 100 staffers are affected. Meta, in turn, specified that the workforce reduction impacts the Oculus Studios […]

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Anthropic launches AI welfare research program
April 24, 2025  21:42:39
OpenAI rival Anthropic PBC has launched a research program focused on the concept of artificial intelligence welfare. The company detailed the initiative today. The project is led by Kyle Fish, an “AI welfare” researcher who joined Anthropic last year. He previously launched a machine learning lab called Eleos AI Research. The nascent field of AI […]

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Veeam debuts data resilience maturity model to help enterprises reduce cyber risk exposure
April 24, 2025  21:07:06
As Veeam Software Group GmbH, the market leader in data resiliency, holds its annual user event VeeamON in San Diego this week, it’s on a roll, continuing to stretch its lead over the legacy vendors. Recently IDC released its Data Protection Software Tracker and Veeam grew 12%, outpacing IBM Corp.’s 5% growth and well ahead of […]

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Progress for ProLiant: HPE’s focus on server security, efficiency and automation adds new capabilities for enterprise AI
April 24, 2025  20:26:56
HPE Proliant Gen12 advances enterprise AI.
Enterprise AI adoption has compelled hardware manufacturers to make decisions on whether to focus on security, efficiency or automation in system design. Based on its February announcements, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has chosen to provide all three. The company’s release of the most recent generation for its ProLiant line of servers illustrates how AI is […]

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Browser security startup SquareX nabs $20M in funding
April 24, 2025  19:21:42
SquareX Ltd., a startup with a browser extension that can detect and block obfuscated malware, today disclosed that it has raised $20 million in funding. SYN Ventures led the Series A round with participation from Peak XV Partners. SquareX’s browser extension promises to help enterprises protect employees from malicious websites, phishing campaigns and other online […]

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Managing endpoint risk and MSP partnerships: NinjaOne’s dual strategy for CISOs
April 24, 2025  19:07:44
NinjaOne’s Mike Arrowsmith talks with theCUBE about managing cybersecurity risk during “The ART of Security Summit: Strategic Risk Management for CISOs” event – 2025.
Cybersecurity today is less about building walls and more about deciding which risks to own and which to offload. Today’s chief information security officers are managing cybersecurity risk not as a fixed enemy, but as a moving target that requires flexibility, foresight and the right allies. That shift requires a dual mindset: operational control to […]

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Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe
April 24, 2025  18:49:12
Holly Cummins, senior principal software engineer for Quarkus at Red Hat Inc., and Vincent Caldeira, chief technology officer for APAC at Red Hat, talk with theCUBE about cloud-native observability during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe – 2025
As enterprises embrace cloud-native architectures to manage sprawling multicloud ecosystems, one challenge dominates the conversation: how to navigate complexity without losing momentum. Cloud-native observability is emerging as a key lever in that effort, helping businesses tame tool sprawl, bridge skills gaps and respond to rapid advances in artificial intelligence. “In our recent research, 75% of […]

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Cyber risk management takes center stage during ‘The ART of Security Summit’
April 24, 2025  18:33:17
Jackie McGuire, principal analyst, security analytics, operations and strategy at theCUBE Research, and Savannah Peterson, principal analyst, consumer tech devices, developers, edge, at theCUBE Research, talk about cyber risk management at The ART of Security Summit 2025.
As digital infrastructure grows increasingly complex, cyber risk management has evolved into a discipline that extends far beyond firewalls and endpoint tools. It now requires strategic thinking, business fluency and clear communication across departments. With the attack surface expanding to include every employee, contractor and third-party vendor, the traditional notion of “IT handles security” no […]

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Why AI gateways are emerging as cloud-native’s next battleground
April 24, 2025  18:22:35
Sudeep Goswami, chief executive officer of Traefik Labs, talks with SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s Paul Nashawaty about AI gateways – AppDevANGLE podcast 2025
There’s a new front opening in the race to build intelligent applications: the intersection of artificial intelligence, application programming interfaces and infrastructure. At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London, the surge of interest in AI wasn’t just about model training or graphics processing unit availability. It was about what happens after you’ve integrated AI, after […]

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Respondology raises $5M to help brands moderate social media comments
April 24, 2025  18:20:05
Respondology, the provider of a social media comment moderation and intelligence platform, announced Wednesday it has raised $5 million in new funding. Investors for the A-1 Series round included Iron Gate Capital, SJF Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, Boulder Heavy Industries and RLB Holdings. The round builds on a $11 million Series A raised by the company […]

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VMware Cloud Foundation leans into lateral security, clean room strategy
April 24, 2025  17:49:14
Sazzala Reddy, chief technology officer, cloud storage and data, at VMware, discusses the importance of lateral security with theCUBE's Christophe Bertrand.
No one is safe from ransomware attacks, which is why VMware by Broadcom has developed VMware Cloud Foundation with lateral security in mind. VCF is VMware’s private cloud platform for managing enterprise infrastructure, and marks a shift in strategy from traditional disaster recovery to cyber resilience. The company embeds most security functions into the platform itself, […]

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Jericho Security raises $15M to enhance AI-powered employee cybersecurity training
April 24, 2025  16:00:19
Artificial intelligence-powered employee cybersecurity training startup Jericho Security Inc. today announced that it has raised $15 million in new funding to expand its research and development efforts and scale up its go-to-market strategies. Founded in 2023, Jericho Security specializes in AI-driven cybersecurity training that focuses on empowering employees to recognize and respond to evolving cyber […]

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Adobe unveils new Firefly generative AI models and creative tools
April 24, 2025  15:35:45
Adobe Inc. is improving its suite of artificial intelligence-powered creative tools with new Firefly generative AI models alongside a newly announced Firefly app. Today at the company’s Max London creativity conference, the company unveiled a new Firefly all-in-one web app for AI-assisted content creation and production that allows creators to generate images, video, audio and […]

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ChEmpower raises $18.7M to advance semiconductor chip polishing technology
April 24, 2025  13:00:55
ChEmpower Corp., a semiconductor materials company providing polish pads and chemical solutions, today announced it has raised $18.7 million in a new early-stage funding for its effort to enhance efficiency, reduce costs and promote sustainability in the chipmaking process. The Series A round was co-led by M Ventures and Rhapsody Venture Partners. The company provides […]

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Indicium launches IndiMesh to streamline enterprise AI and data delivery
April 24, 2025  13:00:50
Brazilian data and artificial intelligence consultancy startup Indicium today announced the launch of IndiMesh, a new artificial intelligence-enabled framework designed to transform how enterprises build, scale and sustain data and AI solutions. Indimesh combines a structured training model with an extensive library of architecture templates that have been built using deep expertise across the modern data stack […]

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SixMap raises $7M to expand enterprise-grade attack surface management
April 24, 2025  13:00:50
Attack surface management solutions startup SixMap Inc. announced today that it had raised $7 million in new funding to accelerate its go-to-market expansion, product innovation and team growth. Founded in 2020, SixMap offers advanced attack surface management that is designed to help organizations gain visibility into their digital environments. The company’s platform uses computational mapping […]

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Harness and Traceable launch cloud-native security service for modern applications
April 24, 2025  13:00:47
Harness Inc. and Traceable Inc. have today debuted a new solution purpose-built to secure modern cloud-native applications and application programming interfaces where they run. The new product, Traceable Cloud Web Application and API Protection, or WAAP, is the first new product from the two companies since they merged in February and brings together technology from […]

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Dataiku introduces AI Agents to unify and govern enterprise agent deployments
April 24, 2025  13:00:17
Artificial intelligence data analytics startup Dataiku Inc. today announced the launch of AI Agents with Dataiku, a new set of capabilities designed to create and control AI agents at scale, delivering AI applications powered by analytics, predictive models and agents. The capabilities seek to assist companies that, as they rush to deploy agents, may create clumsy architectures […]

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Push Security raises $30M to expand browser-based identity threat detection
April 24, 2025  13:00:09
Identity security company Push Security Ltd. announced today that it has raised $30 million in new funding to accelerate growth, fuel innovation and global expansion. Founded in 2020, Push Security specializes in preventing identity-based attacks through a browser-based Identity Threat Detection and Response platform. The company offers a lightweight browser agent that monitors and protects […]

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Dashlane launches AI-powered Omnix platform to tackle phishing and shadow IT
April 24, 2025  12:30:21
Credential security and password management company Dashlane Inc. today unveiled Dashlane Omnix, a new artificial intelligence-accelerated credential security platform aimed at addressing the growing risks of AI-powered phishing and shadow IT. Dashlane Omnix unifies proactive intelligence, real-time response and protected access to provide businesses with complete credential security across their workforce. The service also includes […]

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Legal AI tech startup Noxtua raises €80.7M to help European lawyers automate their work
April 24, 2025  02:16:42
Germany-based legal technology startup Noxtua SE said today it has closed on an €80.7 million ($91.6 million) round of funding after undergoing a corporate rebranding. The company, which was previously known as Xayn SE, said today’s round was led by Verlag C. H. BECK oHG, the No. 1 publisher of legal books in Germany. It […]

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Former OpenAI staff and AI experts ask Attorneys General to block for-profit conversion
April 24, 2025  02:00:30
Former employees of OpenAI, along with 30 artificial intelligence experts, have published an open letter that is asking the attorneys general in California and Delaware to stop the company from restructuring into a “for-profit benefit corporation.” Nobel laureate and former Google Brain leader Geoffrey Hinton has joined forces with fellow AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio and […]

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Datadog snaps up Metaplane to improve data quality for AI applications and systems
April 24, 2025  01:15:51
Cloud security and application monitoring giant Datadog Inc. said today it’s looking to expand the scope of its data observability offerings after acquiring a startup called Metaplane. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Datadog stressed that Metaplane will help to accelerate its push into the area of data observability, where it […]

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ServiceNow dodges tariff and DOGE threats, beating forecasts and raising guidance
April 24, 2025  00:13:30
Shares of ServiceNow Inc. shot up in extended trading after the company reported better-than-expected first-quarter results and forecast higher revenue than Wall Street’s target. The company said it’s seeing strong demand despite the current economic uncertainty, and reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $4.04 per share. Revenue for the period came […]

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IBM beats forecasts and says it’s well-positioned to weather a trade war but stock falls on outlook
April 23, 2025  23:07:13
Expressing confidence that it can weather the winds of an uncertain economic climate, IBM Corp. today reported revenue and earnings that beat analysts’ expectations and reaffirmed its guidance for the full fiscal year. Still, investors were worried about IBM’s outlook, especially given its large government business subject to Trump budget cuts, and its stock fell […]

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Open-source code security startup Chainguard raises $356M at $3.5B valuation
April 23, 2025  23:01:24
Chainguard Inc., a startup that helps developers ensure the open-source code they use is secure, has raised $356 million in fresh funding. The Series D round comes less than a year after the company’s previous nine-figure raise. Chainguard detailed in its announcement of the deal today that Kleiner Perkins and IVP were the lead investors. […]

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Scamnetic lands $13M to scale up its AI-driven scam defense platform
April 23, 2025  22:48:59
Artificial intelligence-based scam protection startup Scamnetic Inc. announced today that it has raised $13 million in new funding to enhance its marketing, sales and customer support operations, as well as to accelerate its product development roadmap to meet growing global demand. Founded in 2022, Scamnetic uses advanced AI to detect and prevent digital scams. The […]

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EU issues €700M in fines to Apple, Meta over DMA breaches
April 23, 2025  21:19:49
The European Union today issued fines worth €700 million to Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. after finding they had failed to comply with the bloc’s DMA law. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, announced the move today. The penalties mark the first “non-compliance decisions” that officials have issued under the DMA. The law, […]

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Report: Intel to lay off 20%+ of its workforce in efficiency push
April 23, 2025  19:12:19
Intel Corp. plans to announce a significant round of layoffs later this week, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The company is expected to let go more than 20% of its workforce, which stood at 108,900 employees last December. That means over 20,000 roles could be cut. It’s unclear which business units are set to be affected […]

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