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Palo Alto Networks reported better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings and projected revenue growth of about 14% for the fiscal year ahead.
Oracle said it has deployed OpenAI GPT-5 across its applications and database portfolio in what amounts to more choices for Oracle customers and additional distribution for OpenAI.
The US government is getting good at squeezing technology vendors and foundational model players OpenAI and Anthropic are raising to give away ChatGPT and Claude to the Feds for $1 a year.
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Every day, Constellation Research analysts are swapping takes, headlines, observations and broad themes on our internal watercooler thread. It’s part entertainment and part college class. Here’s a look at Holger Mueller and Esteban Kolsky’s recent debate on data, infrastructure and strategy.
Workday said it has acquired Flowise, a platform to create AI agents and automate workflows.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers will get access to Google Cloud's Gemini models in a new partnership between the companies.
The funding lands as Cohere North, an agentic AI platform, scales up. The funding round was led by Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital with participation from existing investors such as AMD Ventures, Nvidia, PSP Investments and Salesforce Ventures.
Five9 said it has integrated its customer experience and contact-as-a-service platform with Epic, one of the top electronic health record providers. The companies will launch Five9 Fusion for Epic in a bid to land more healthcare enterprises.
Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco, said "the AI infrastructure orders we received from webscale customers in fiscal 2025 were more than double our original target."
