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Microsoft’s inaugural Cyber Pulse AI Security Report reveals that over 80% of Fortune 500 firms already deploy low‑code AI agents, and the company forecasts 1.3 billion autonomous agents operating by 2028. Financial services account for roughly 11% of global agent activity, underscoring the sector’s rapid adoption. The report warns that without robust observability, governance, and Zero‑Trust controls, agents can become security liabilities, especially as 53% of Australian organisations lack dedicated GenAI safeguards. Microsoft urges enterprises and partners to embed security at the core of AI transformation.
A client moved to me after 6 years with a private bank. He didn't leave because of poor performance. He left because he finally saw the full fee statement. His relationship manager had never shown him the total annual cost in dollars.
The Australian government’s National Housing Accord, launched on 1 July 2024, set a goal of delivering 1.2 million new dwellings within five years. ABS data show that after the first 15 months, about 81,000 homes—27 % of the target—remain unbuilt, creating a sizable shortfall. The...
TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC reported a $73 million increase in its debt investment portfolio for Q3 2025, marking the third straight quarter of growth and a year‑to‑date rise of nearly $110 million. New commitments surged to $182 million, with 90% directed toward AI,...
The BFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund has awarded £350,000 to Goldsmiths, University of London to launch the ACES programme – AI, Carbon, Equity, Skills. ACES will unite academic partners, industry leaders and NGOs to explore AI’s workforce impact, carbon...
Janus International Group reported Q4 2025 revenue of $219.3 million, a 4.7% year‑over‑year decline driven primarily by pricing pressure and lower volume. Adjusted EBITDA rose 1.2% to $43.6 million, lifting the margin to 19.9% after cost‑saving initiatives. International sales surged 32.9% while...
Hudson Technologies reported Q2 2025 revenue of $72.8 million, a 3% decline driven by cooler weather delaying the cooling season. Gross margin improved to 31% thanks to higher refrigerant prices, lifting gross profit to $22.8 million. Net income rose to $10.1 million on...
Ukraine’s labor market has endured a massive shock since the February 2022 invasion, losing roughly a quarter of its pre‑war workforce due to displacement, mobilization and casualties. Despite a spike in unemployment above 20% in 2022, the rate fell to...
NACCO Industries reported third‑quarter 2019 results, with revenue modestly rising to $32.6 million while operating profit fell to $8.7 million. Net income increased to $10.3 million, driven by a $2.7 million pre‑tax payment from an India venture. Management forecast 2020 coal deliveries to grow,...
Mistras Group reported Q3 fiscal 2025 revenue of $195.5 million, a 7% year‑over‑year increase driven by growth across all five major verticals. Adjusted EBITDA reached a record $30.2 million, up 29.6% and yielding a 15.4% margin, while net income more than doubled...
Sight Sciences reported fourth‑quarter 2025 revenue of $20.4 million, a 7% year‑over‑year increase, driven by $19.7 million from interventional glaucoma and $0.7 million from the newly reimbursed interventional dry‑eye segment. Gross margins remained strong at 87% overall, while operating expenses fell 25% after...
Seaport Entertainment Group reported Q4 2025 consolidated revenue of $45.1 million, a modest 1% year‑over‑year increase, while net loss narrowed to $33.2 million, or $2.61 per share, a 56% improvement. Adjusted EBITDA rose sharply—up 40% on an exclusionary basis—despite headline declines driven...
Verastem reported $1.7 million in COPIKTRA net revenue for Q1 2019, a 38% increase over the prior quarter, and achieved reimbursement coverage with more than 92% of targeted health plans. Clinical updates highlighted the Phase 3 DUO trial, which showed...
Altisource Portfolio Solutions reported Q2 2025 service revenue of $40.8 million, up 11% year‑over‑year, and adjusted EBITDA of $5.4 million, a 23% increase. GAAP net income swung to $16.6 million from an $8.3 million loss, helped by a tax reserve reversal and lower interest expense....
Stem Inc. posted Q3 2025 revenue of $38 million, a 31% year‑over‑year increase, and ARR rose to $60 million, up 17%. The company recorded a second straight quarter of positive adjusted EBITDA ($2 million) and generated $11 million of operating cash flow. Management highlighted...
Ascent Industries reported Q4 2025 results highlighting a near‑1000‑basis‑point gross‑margin expansion and a 61% rise in gross profit despite a 7% full‑year revenue decline. Adjusted EBITDA loss narrowed by $4.1 million year‑over‑year, while the company secured $9.4 million of annualized revenue from...
Grocery Outlet Holding Corp reported a 5% decline in Q4 2025 net sales to $76.8 million, with full‑year sales also down 5% to $276 million. Gross margin fell to 44.1% from 47.9% as incremental tariffs added roughly $16 million in costs, outpacing a...
Magnachip Semiconductor reported Q4 2025 revenue of $40.6 million, a 17% year‑over‑year decline, and a gross margin of 9.3% after a one‑time $2.7 million sales incentive reduced profitability. Adjusted operating loss widened to $11.9 million and adjusted EBITDA turned negative...
Ukraine has lost roughly a quarter of its civilian workforce since the 2022 invasion, with 3.5 million workers displaced, mobilised, or killed. Despite this shock, aggregate job‑matching efficiency declined only about 15%, a smaller drop than during the 2008 U.S. financial...
Ardent Health reported solid volume and revenue growth in Q3 2025, with revenue up 8.8% to $1.58 billion and adjusted EBITDA rising 46% to $143 million. However, the company lowered its full‑year adjusted EBITDA guidance to $530‑$555 million, citing accelerating professional‑fee expenses and...
Velixo senior product manager and CPA Jim Norton discussed the challenges of year‑end closing in Dynamics 365 Business Central on the MSDW podcast. He warned that weak close processes, reliance on Excel‑based reports, and manual data exports heighten audit friction for...
Miller Industries reported a strong rebound in Q4 bookings, up 42% sequentially and 35% year‑over‑year to $540 million, signaling early demand recovery, especially in North America. Despite this, revenue fell to $923 million and the company posted a $16 million adjusted operating loss,...
Global Water Resources reported Q1 2020 revenue of $8.2 million, a 6.6% increase year‑over‑year, driven by 4.7% organic connection growth and higher consumption. Adjusted EBITDA rose 18.4% to $4.1 million, while operating expenses fell slightly, reflecting cost discipline and the recent in‑house billing...
SES AI Corp reported a record third‑quarter 2025 revenue of $7.1 million, a 102% sequential increase driven by the recent UC Energy acquisition and the launch of its Molecular Universe (MU 1.0) AI platform. Services now account for 55% of revenue with...
Daktronics reported a 12% year‑over‑year increase in orders and a 36% jump in its product backlog to $321 million, delivering three straight quarters of top‑line growth. Net income rose 25% on an adjusted basis to $17.5 million, while operating margin edged toward...
Viemed Healthcare reported a 14.7% year‑over‑year revenue increase in fiscal Q2 2025, driven entirely by organic growth across its core ventilation, sleep therapy, and resupply segments. Adjusted EBITDA rose 12% to $14.3 million, while SG&A fell to 45.7% of revenue, reflecting...
Advanced Flower Capital Inc. reported Q2 2025 results, posting $0.15 per share in non‑GAAP distributable earnings and a GAAP loss of $13.2 million. The loan portfolio held steady at $357.9 million across 15 assets, delivering a weighted‑average 17% yield to maturity....
In a recent SCI interview, Adam Rizkalla of Canyon Partners highlighted how structural protections are reshaping the residential ABS market, especially for prime mortgage pools. He explained that enhanced tranche designs and over‑collateralisation are reducing investor risk while preserving yield....
X announced a revision to its creator revenue‑share program to curb AI‑generated deepfakes about the Iran war. Users posting AI‑created videos of the conflict without a disclosure will be suspended from revenue sharing for 90 days, with permanent bans for...
X reported a 15% decline in EU active users, dropping from 76 million in the first half of 2025 to 64.8 million in the second half. The dip appears despite Elon Musk’s public assertions of record‑high global engagement. Under the EU Digital...
Yeti Boo, an AI‑generated Bigfoot persona, exploded on TikTok, reaching over 439,000 followers and catching the eye of brands. KANE Footwear signed the character as an “AI athlete” to promote its Revive AC recovery shoe, pairing the mascot’s off‑beat wilderness...
Meta is piloting a shopping research feature inside its Meta AI chatbot for U.S. users. The tool returns a carousel of product images with brand, price, and website details, plus brief recommendation bullet points. The move mirrors similar experiments by...
OpenAI announced that its ChatGPT default model has been upgraded to GPT‑5.3‑Instant, aiming to make interactions feel less stiff and “cringe‑worthy.” The new version cuts over‑caveating, reduces unnecessary safety preambles, and delivers more accurate, conversational responses. OpenAI reports a 27%...
Koah, a native monetization platform for generative AI, announced a $20.5 million Series A round. The round was led by Theory Ventures, with Tomasz Tunguz joining the board. The funding builds on a $5 million seed round raised in September 2025 and signals confidence in...
Bubble tea chain Chatime has appointed former Guzman y Gomez marketer Alison Walsh as its new Chief Marketing Officer for Australia. The hire follows the departure of global CMO Jeff Chang and national marketing manager Rachel Druce, marking a shift...
California’s Court of Appeal in Spilman v. The Salvation Army established a new two‑part test to determine when nonprofit workers qualify as bona‑fide volunteers rather than employees under state wage orders. The court rejected the trial court’s reliance on a...
Rising crude prices, driven by the Iran‑Israel conflict, could push the Philippine peso past the 59 per‑dollar threshold. MUFG forecasts the PHP trading between 58.5 and 59.5 if oil steadies around $90 a barrel, while JP Morgan sees a modest global...
LiveRamp announced the integration of Newton Research and SemantIQ agents into its data‑collaboration platform, allowing autonomous AI to handle audience creation, cross‑media measurement and spend optimization for health and life‑science marketers. Simultaneously, Doceree launched RepTwin and the Site LLM, a...
Just about every small and mid sized business I talk to is still behind on MFA. It is still the highest ROI security control available. If you have not enforced MFA everywhere, that is the easiest win you have this quarter. Read more...
The Pentagon’s demand that Anthropic’s AI models be usable for all lawful purposes collided with the company’s refusal to support mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, sparking a supply‑chain‑risk designation and a legal showdown. The dispute highlights a clash between...
trump has backed away from regime change in iran. so what’s the strategy? if not tehran, then maybe the oil. @gzeromedia
Sino Biopharm’s subsidiary Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group has signed an exclusive global licensing deal with Sanofi for its blood‑cancer drug rovadicitinib. The agreement provides Sanofi with worldwide rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize the oral JAK/ROCK inhibitor, and includes...
The Vanguard S&P Mid‑Cap 400 ETF (IVOO) is heavily weighted toward cyclical sectors, with about 65% in discretionary, financials, industrials, materials and real estate. The analyst warns that uncertain U.S. consumer demand, rising unemployment and AI‑driven productivity gains could dampen...
🚨 NEW 🚨 Pinterest and Amazon Influencers have teamed up on a new integration that allows select Pinterest creators to link their Amazon Storefronts to their profiles. By connecting their accounts, creators can: 🔗 Feature a Storefront link on their Pinterest profile 🏷️...
No wonder direct lending to software buyouts was so popular. Out of 300+ loans that Blue Owl has made since inception, only one has defaulted. That one loan was to finance Vista Equity's $3.5 billion buyout of Pluralsight in 2021. Blue Owl...
GS Europe: Europe has re-rated in recent years Sectors with high US exposure and a low beta to the market should be mostly immune to recent shocks https://t.co/g2Fd3kpcA5
Every company wants the best AI stack. But few are asking the real question: To what end? If you automate everything and answer anything… what does your business actually stand for? AI without strategy is just noise. #AI #BusinessStrategy #Leadership #Innovation #TechStrategy
Carta data just released the latest fundraising benchmarks and I’m shocked. Median seed valuation came in at $23.4M post-money (all time high). Median series A valuation came in at $67.7M post-money (near all time high). 🤯
#HankeInflationDashboard: By my measurements, as of March 1st, this week's top 5 inflators are: 🇻🇪Venezuela — 656.1%/yr 🇰🇵North Korea — 107.8%/yr 🇮🇷Iran— 84.6%/yr 🇱🇾Libya — 63.8%/yr 🇨🇺Cuba — 50.0%/yr https://t.co/FrHE7rOpRu
"Every industry will be impacted by AI. If you are an operating CIO who is largely focused on productivity, efficiencies, and reliability, youre just not going to cut it. #AI #CIO #CXOTalk #DigitalTransformation https://t.co/xTvbca0YxB
