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Palo Alto Networks CEO puts a number on the AI cost problem: 90% token price drop needed
Nikesh Arora says token costs must fall 90% within two years for enterprise AI to scale, and Uber already burned its full-year AI budget by April.
Kaspersky selects WebEngage for B2B marketing automation, treating data governance as a procurement requirement
Kaspersky chose WebEngage for marketing automation after vetting it like a security product, with PII controls and secure access built in from day one.
Anthropic's $1.5B joint venture Ode puts forward-deployed engineers inside enterprise clients to close the AI implementation gap
Ode with Anthropic, a $1.5B joint venture backed by Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman, embeds engineers directly inside enterprises.
Object Edge's 30-day AI agent field test: 457 autonomous runs, zero manual prompts
Object Edge logged 457 autonomous AI agent runs across five operational domains over 30 days, with 256 governance checks and zero manual prompts required.
Why enterprise AI programs stall before scaling, and what the roadmap actually requires
Most enterprise AI budgets are spent on pilots that never reach production. A five-step adoption roadmap built around readiness, governance, and business KPIs c
Accenture Edge and Google Cloud target midmarket AI gap with pre-built agentic tools
Accenture Edge and Google Cloud are offering midmarket companies pre-configured agentic AI tools built on Gemini, aimed at firms under $3B in revenue.
Cognizant expands Google Cloud partnership to move 100,000 associates onto Gemini Enterprise
Cognizant and Google Cloud deepen their Gemini Enterprise partnership, targeting 100K associates and joint go-to-market offerings across key industries.
Enterprise AI's infrastructure moment: agents, gateways, and the battle for the control plane
OpenAI's ChatGPT Work, a 130% valuation premium for AI-embedded products, and the rise of agent gateways signal a new operational era.
60% of agentic AI costs go to response refinement, and most enterprises are already over budget
McKinsey finds 93% of enterprise AI teams exceed their budgets, with response refinement alone consuming 60% of agentic AI spend.
Only 11% of S&P 500 firms have deeply integrated AI, MIT study finds
A new MIT FutureTech study finds just 11% of S&P 500 firms have deeply integrated AI, with tech firms driving two-thirds of that adoption.
AI monetization, model efficiency, and India's infrastructure gap shape enterprise AI decisions
Earnings season is surfacing real AI revenue, models are getting leaner, and India's chip deficit is forcing a rethink of AI sovereignty strategy.
Databricks raises at $188B valuation to push its multi-AI governance and agent platform
Databricks announced a new strategic funding round at a $188B valuation, led by Coatue, to accelerate Unity AI Gateway, Genie, and Lakebase.
Etched targets a $20 billion valuation with back-to-back rounds as inference chip demand hits $1 billion
AI inference chip startup Etched is in talks to close two concurrent funding rounds valuing it at $10B and $20B, signaling surging enterprise demand.
SpaceX Is in Talks to Supply the Pentagon With Billions in AI Computing Capacity. Here Is What It Means for the Enterprise Market.
SpaceX is in talks with the U.S. Department of Defense to supply data center capacity worth billions of dollars for Pentagon AI workloads, the Wall Street Journal reported today. SpaceX already has computing deals with Google, Anthropic, and Reflection AI. Here is what a Pentagon agreement would mean for the AI infrastructure market and enterprise buyers.
Apple Just Reclaimed the World's Most Valuable Company Title From Nvidia. Here Is What the Tech Rotation Means for Enterprise Strategy.
Apple reclaimed the title of world's most valuable company today, July 17, 2026, surpassing Nvidia at $4.91 trillion as a semiconductor sell-off and a broader technology rotation rewarded Apple's ecosystem durability over AI infrastructure spending. Here is what the shift means for enterprise technology strategy.
Databricks signs term sheet for $3 billion round at $188 billion valuation, led by Coatue
Databricks signed a term sheet for a $3B Coatue-led round at $188B, up 40% from a $134B valuation just months ago, to fund acquisitions and AI platform expansio
Enterprise AI adoption is surging, but workforce readiness is sliding backward
AI is embedded across 57% of enterprises, yet workforce confidence and goal attainment are both declining. Here's what the data says operators must fix.
Info-Tech study: enterprises with a formal AI strategy are 3x more likely to report measurable impact
Info-Tech Research Group's June 2026 survey of 551 senior leaders finds that governed AI strategy, data readiness, and executive ownership separate leaders from
Anduril CEO signals no IPO urgency as new funding round targets $28 billion valuation
Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf told CNBC the defense tech company can stay private indefinitely as it pursues a new round valuing it at $28 billion.
Microsoft launches Frontier Company with $2.5B investment to embed AI engineers inside enterprise customers
Microsoft is committing $2.5B and 6,000 engineers to a new unit that co-builds AI systems on-site with enterprise customers and guarantees IP protection.
Microsoft Frontier Co. launches with $2.5 billion and 6,000 engineers to fix AI's ROI problem
Microsoft's new subsidiary puts 6,000 engineers inside enterprise clients to close the gap between AI ambition and actual business returns.
Only 26% of enterprises say AI governance keeps pace with deployment, Smarsh study finds
A Smarsh study conducted by FTI Consulting finds 55% of enterprises are deploying AI but only 26% have governance that matches the pace.
Agentic AI, infrastructure risk, and timing: the B2B tech signals operators can't ignore in 2026
From agentic AI deployments in APAC to a 19-day model shutdown, 2026's B2B tech story is about operational readiness, not just adoption.
Microsoft 365 prices rise up to 43% as Copilot Chat folds into base plans
Effective July 1, Microsoft raised M365 commercial prices 5–43% and bundled Copilot Chat into every base plan, forcing procurement teams to reassess software bu
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