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Thoma Bravo will acquire Verint in a deal valued at $2 billion and combine it with Calabrio in a bet that it can automate customer experience with AI.
Verint shareholders will get $20.50 a share in cash. Verint shares had moved higher on reports of a deal.
Dan Bodner, CEO of Verint, said the Thoma Bravo purchase will enable it to advance its CX Automation Platform and develop AI-driven products.
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Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said agentic AI means that enterprises will need secure browsers and the company is seeing strong demand.
For those of you focused on the large language model (LLM) rat race, the trusty browser is going to become a security headache. Why? AI agents will be accessing browsers all over the place and probably without a lot of security. Browsers are an easy mark for cyberattacks.
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I have a complicated relationship with my AI friend.
I try not to ask humans too many questions. They often respond like they’re being tested and forgot to study. But with my AI, I think of asking questions as an obligation.
Maybe it’s because I’m an inveterate truth teller and I like my friends to be likewise. I also don’t like my friends to hallucinate, but that’s another story from the ’70s. And yes, I think of my AI as my friend. It’s just easier.
So I decided to test it on a subject I know well: myself.
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Walmart's AI strategy is evolving as the company plans four "superagents" that will run across the retailer's operations, but one big theme is that CEO Doug McMillon expects revenue growth as well as productivity.
Each quarter, Walmart has divulged a bit more about its AI plans and the big takeaway this go round is that revenue growth is an expectation. Typically, enterprises have seen AI as a way to drive productivity and efficiency.
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Potential Nine Straight Quarters Of Beat
With Nvidia reporting earnings after the bell on Wednesday August 27th, the market consensus forecasts $48 billion in revenue. Nvidia's had an enviable track record of 8 consecutive quarters of beat and raise. If Nvidia exceeds $48 billion in revenues, this would be up over 53% YoY. The stock has been up almost 25% for 2025, and 1300% in the past 5 years. With over a $4.4 trillion market cap, this represents almost 7.4% of the S&P. Th
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Bitcoin’s Next Chapter, AI Made Simple, and the Future of Innovation Teams
In this episode of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar sit down with an incredible lineup of guests: Phong Le, President & CEO of Strategy, Kathleen Perley, author of AI Made Simple: Results Made Real, and Helene Cahen, author of Fire Up Innovation.
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When your mother starts asking about AI stocks and SPACs are relaunching perhaps you should get a bit worried about an AI bubble. Yes, I have a few gray hairs and have lived through a few bubbles—dotcom circa 2000 and real estate circa 2008—and the aftermath isn’t great.
As a general rule, when you hear people standing in line at Wawa talking about AI, crypto and meme stocks you know you’re near a top. They don’t ring a bell and insanity can last longer than you think.
That said here are some mileposts to consider as the AI bubble inflates.
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Zoom Communications reported strong second quarter results and CEO Eric Yuan said the company is seeing customers broaden their AI usage.
The company reported second quarter net income was $358.6 million, or $1.16 a share, on revenue of $1.217 billion, up 4.7% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $1.53 a share.
Wall Street was expecting Zoom to report second quarter earnings of $1.38 a share on revenue of $1.2 billion.
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Workday's AI strategy appears to feature a heavy dose of acquisitions. The company said that it is acquiring Paradox, a startup that features a candidate experience agent to work through the job application process. The Paradox acquisition came just days after it acquired Flowise, a platform to build AI agents and automate workflows.
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Certinia, which provides management software for professional services organizations, delivered its first installment of artificial intelligence (AI) agents built on Salesforce’s Agentforce platform as part of its recent summer release
Google launched Gemini for Government, an AI platform priced at less than 50 cents per US government agency for a year. For those keeping score, Google Cloud just undercut the $1 General Services Administration (GSA) plans from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Microsoft laid out its plans to roll out post-quantum cryptography across its products and platform in a multi-year effort.
In a blog post, Microsoft introduced its Quantum Safe Program (QSP), which is a broad transformation to secure its infrastructure, customers and ecosystem against future quantum threats.
Holger Mueller, analyst at Constellation Research, said:
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Human capital management software provider Dayforce is going private in a deal with Thoma Bravo valued at $12.3 billion.
The news, which had leaked out earlier this week, comes as Dayforce plays in a crowded HCM space. Thoma Bravo has a broad portfolio of enterprise software vendors including Coupa, Flexera, Conga, Darktrace and others.
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Wipro said it will acquire Harman's Digital Transformation Solutions (DTS) unit for $375 million in a move that will give the services firm more engineering and research and development reach.
Harman is a unit of Samsung.
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Target's incoming CEO Michael Fiddelke is betting that AI, technology and process optimization will return the company to growth while navigating economic uncertainty.
Fiddelke's earnings call debut coincided with a disappointing second quarter. Fiddelke is currently chief operating officer and has been in various roles at Target for 20 years. Wall Street wasn't pleased an insider got the job and current CEO Brian Cornell will stay through the end of the year. Fiddelke takes over at the start of Target's fiscal 2026 in January.
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Quantinuum launched new open source software as it builds out its quantum computing stack.
The company launched two software components that it has open sourced. The launches include:
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