Nebius revenue grew 454%. Most of the cash came from customers paying in advance
Nebius revenue grew 454%. Most of the cash came from customers paying in advance

Nebius rents out computing power. It buys Nvidia chips, puts them in data centres, and charges companies to train and run AI models on them. The trade calls this a neocloud. It is based in Amsterdam, listed on Nasdaq, and was spun out of the Russian in…

The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI, and its revenue just halved
The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI, and its revenue just halved

The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI. The publisher of TheStreet, Parade and Men’s Journal expects the change to finish by the end of August. Business Insider had it first. Steven Tweedie and Ben Shimkus obtained a staff memo from chief execu…

Cybersecurity stocks hit record highs, and one analyst target lasted a morning
Cybersecurity stocks hit record highs, and one analyst target lasted a morning

CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks hit record highs on Monday. Each rose more than 5%, after a week in which the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas turned into an argument about AI agents. CNBC’s Samantha Subin reported the move. CrowdStrike gained 11.3…

Apple has run out of iPhone shapes, and Jefferies just cut it to sell
Apple has run out of iPhone shapes, and Jefferies just cut it to sell

Jefferies cut Apple from hold to underperform on Monday. That is the bank’s equivalent of a sell rating. It also cut its price target from $285.56 to $263.66. Fortune’s Sebastian Herrera reported the call. The bank’s supply-chain checks produced three …

A single Messi moment pushed Google Search to its busiest second ever
A single Messi moment pushed Google Search to its busiest second ever

Google Search recorded its highest usage ever this week, driven by a World Cup goal. The company says the most queries per second in Search’s near-28-year history landed right after Argentina’s winning goal, a spokesperson told CNBC. The spike followed…

UiPath shares rebound as Wall Street warms to its AI-agent pivot
UiPath shares rebound as Wall Street warms to its AI-agent pivot

UiPath spent much of the year as one of software’s biggest disappointments. Now the Romanian-founded automation firm is clawing back. Its first profit and an all-in bet on AI agents are the reason. Shares in UiPath have rebounded in recent weeks. They …

97% of marketers use AI daily – 78% of consumers wish they wouldn’t
97% of marketers use AI daily – 78% of consumers wish they wouldn’t

  Nearly every marketer in the world is now using AI to make creative work. Nearly every consumer would still rather that a person had made it. That tension, between the industry’s enthusiasm and the public’s unease, is the central finding of Canva’s S…

OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads just went cost-per-click, and the AI advertising war has its battle lines
OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads just went cost-per-click, and the AI advertising war has its battle lines

Summary: OpenAI has shifted ChatGPT’s advertising from CPM to cost-per-click pricing, with bids between $3 and $5, after the $60 CPM it charged at launch in February eroded to as low as $25 within ten weeks. The move puts OpenAI in direct competition w…