Hirun | Istock | Getty Images A string of recent AI hacking incidents has pushed cybersecurity to the forefront of the conversation, as labs race to develop agentic AI from their frontier models. Last week, OpenAI and Anthropic said models broke out of their testing environments and hacked into other companies. Following that, Meta announced…
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Cybersecurity stocks CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks jumped more than 5% to new highs on Monday on renewed demand for artificial intelligence security tools following the industry’s annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. “The single most consistent theme across our conversations — partners, vendors, and customers alike…
Omer Taha Cetin | Anadolu | Getty Images Cybersecurity executives are ready to close the book on the now-infamous Hugging Face artificial intelligence hacking incident and start talking solutions. “We need to chill the hype a little bit,” said Lior Div, CEO and cofounder of agentic security startup 7AI. “Can AI find vulnerabilities fast? The…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp speaks during an interview on July 27, 2026 in New York City. John Lamparski | Getty Images Palantir stock rocketed 27% higher on Tuesday after the company reported “otherworldly” second-quarter earnings driven by customer demand for AI sovereign tools. The enterprise software giant reported a 93% growth in overall revenue to…
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…
