For months, cybersecurity leaders warned that artificial intelligence would reshape the threat landscape, compressing weeks- and dayslong cyberattacks into a matter of minutes. Until last week, those threats still felt like a distant risk. The OpenAI agent hack on Hugging Face illustrates that this era has not only arrived but also created a new challenge:…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. Stocks were mixed on Wednesday . The S & P 500 was basically flat in late afternoon trading, while the Nasdaq was modestly weaker. Once again,…
The AI trade dominated the market once again this week, upstaging an impressive start to the second-quarter earnings season. Cooler-than-expected June reports on consumer and producer prices offered encouraging signs that inflation continued to ease, while earnings from the nation’s largest banks reinforced the strength of capital markets. At the same time, investors kept one…
Okta and Crowtstrike. Jonathan Raa | Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Cybersecurity stocks jumped on Tuesday after IBM CEO Arvind Krishna flagged cyber fears as a top priority for customers in the company’s preliminary second-quarter results. During the period, Krishna said customers shifted spending to servers and memory and that “rapidly-evolving, industry-wide cybersecurity…
Wall Street’s record-setting start to the week ran into two familiar sources of volatility: the artificial intelligence trade and oil. The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday closed above 53,000 for the first time ever before renewed U.S.-Iran tensions erased those gains, leaving the blue-chip index down 0.5% for the week. Chip stocks — once…
This photograph shows the logo of the logo of SentinelOne during the 18th edition of the “InCyber” Forum, an international cyber security event, at the Grand Palais in Lille, northern France on April 1, 2026. Sameer Al-doumy | Afp | Getty Images SentinelOne shares sank 8% as the cybersecurity company laid off 8% of its…
Every weekday, the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer releases the Homestretch — an actionable afternoon update, just in time for the last hour of trading on Wall Street. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq powered higher on Thursday, with both indexes touching all-time highs during the session. Helping fuel the gains, Axios reported…
Another superb week for stocks is in the books. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq rallied on Friday to close out the week at a record high as Wall Street celebrated another solid batch of earnings and a strong-but-not-too-strong jobs report, while holding out hope for an end to the hostilities in the Mideast….
Global banks, tech giants and governments were sent scrambling last month to contain the risks posed by Mythos, the Anthropic model said to be so powerful that it has found thousands of previously unknown vulnerabilities in the world’s software infrastructure. There’s just one problem: the capability they’re worried about is already here. Cybersecurity experts and…
Cybersecurity and enterprise software stocks have been market dogs since the start of 2026, with fears that AI will wipe out a wide range of companies in the enterprise space dominating the narrative. But they snapped a brutal losing streak this past week, joining in the broader market rally that saw all losses from the…
