The Iran war-driven spike in oil prices crushed stocks last week, culminating in the S & P 500 ‘s first three-week losing streak in roughly a year. There was little place to hide, with nine of the 11 S & P 500 sector indexes lower for the week. Not surprisingly, energy and utilities were winners. Brent…
Four years ago Kevin Mandia agreed to sell his cybersecurity company Mandiant to Google for $5.4 billion. Now he’s back in the game, with Google’s help. On Tuesday, Mandia’s new startup, Armadin, said it raised nearly $190 million, in a funding round led by Accel. Google Ventures is participating, along with firms including Kleiner Perkins,…
Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty Images New U.S laws designed to protect minors are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates to access online content, leading to backlash from users and criticism from privacy advocates that a free and open internet is at stake. Roughly half of U.S. states have enacted or are advancing…
Palantir was an outlier in a tough week for the stock market, as the provider of software and services to the U.S. government saw its stock rally 15% following the U.S. attack on Iran. The tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 1.2% for the week, pushed lower by names like Apple, Google and Micron, and other benchmarks tumbled…
Iraqi Shiites shout slogans as they carry a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and wave Iran flags during a protest against US and Israeli attacks on Iran at a bridge leading to Green Zone where the US embassy is located, in Baghdad on February 28, 2026. Several hundred people protested against the…
Aire Images | Moment | Getty Images As the business world comes to grips with artificial intelligence, the biggest risk may be one where those running the economy can’t possibly stay ahead. As AI systems become more complex, humans aren’t able to fully understand, predict, or control them. That inability to understand at a fundamental level where AI models are going…
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz speaks at the Wall Street Journal Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, on Oct. 21, 2019. Martina Albertazzi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Cybersecurity stocks dropped for a second day on Monday as investors fretted over new artificial intelligence security tools that threaten to displace the sector’s longstanding business models….
Chief executive officer at Palo Alto Networks Inc., Nikesh Arora attends the 9th edition of the VivaTech trade show at the Parc des Expositions de la Porte de Versailles on June 11, 2025, in Paris. Chesnot | Getty Images Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora addressed the recent downdraft in software stocks, telling analysts in…
Palo Alto Networks beat Wall Street’s fiscal second-quarter estimates after the bell on Tuesday but shares fell 6% on disappointing guidance. Here’s how the company did versus LSEG estimates: Earnings per share: $1.03 per share excluding items vs. 94 cents expected Revenue: $2.59 billion vs. $2.58 billion expected The cybersecurity company forecasted lackluster earnings for…
A logo of CLOUDFLARE sits outside the company’s house on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2025. Yves Herman | Reuters Cloudflare is acquiring artificial intelligence data marketplace Human Native, the company said Thursday, as it expands its push to develop transactions…
