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Anthropic customers are already feeling pinched by the company’s AI price hikes, Aaron and I reported Wednesday. Making matters harder, Anthropic customers like PagerDuty and ServiceNow, which says it already blew through its full-year budget for Anthropic AI tools, can’t predict what they’ll ...
Figma stock rose more than 8% in after hours trading as the design-software firm reported accelerating revenue growth for the first quarter.Revenue for the three months that ended March 31 rose 46% to $333 million, higher than the 40% jump in the previous quarter and the 38% increase in the period before that.Part of that growth flows from Figma’s move in early March to enforce limits on
By: Laura Bratton
Businesses are spending more on Anthropic and other AI providers, and the additional budget has to come from somewhere. One natural target for cuts is other software. While businesses aren’t abandoning their enterprise applications outright, they’re putting themselves in a better position to do ...
By: Laura Bratton
Intuit shares dropped around 14% in extended trading on Wednesday as the maker of QuickBooks and TurboTax reported revenue growth dipping to its slowest pace since 2024.Revenue in the fiscal third quarter, which ended April 30, climbed 10% from the previous year to $8.6 billion, much less than the 17% year-over-year jump in revenue in the January quarter. The last time Intuit reported such a
Businesses used to feel locked in to their enterprise software providers, but some now say they can cut and run if they need to.Companies such as insurer National Life Group, for instance, have negotiated “opt out” provisions that let them exit their software contracts or reduce their ...
Workday shares climbed more than 10% in after-hours trading on Thursday after the HR application maker said the number of customers using its AI agents in the three months ended April 30 roughly doubled from the previous quarter to more than 4,000.Gerrit Kazmaier, the company’s president of product and technology, also told investors in a call following its quarterly results that the value of
Salesforce on Wednesday lowered its projection for cash flow growth in its 2027 fiscal year, which ends January next year. The stock fell 3% in after-hours trading following Salesforce’s quarterly earnings results for the April quarter.The software firm said operating cash flow will rise 4% to 5% for the year, five percentage points lower than the guidance it provided three months ago. It
By: Kevin Mclaughlin, Laura Bratton
Shares of traditional software providers have been battered this year over AI fears. Investors’ reaction to Snowflake’s and Salesforce’s quarterly results Wednesday suggests some providers are in better shape than others.Snowflake shares jumped more than 35% to their highest point since December ...
By: Laura Bratton, Sri Muppidi
Before former Slack CEO Denise Dresser joined OpenAI in December as its chief revenue officer, the company’s efforts to sell its products to business customers were sometimes clunky. Earlier in 2025, for example, the company had struck an agreement with Databricks, which would sell OpenAI ...
AI researchers may have the hottest job in tech, but forward-deployed engineers who put the AI to good use are becoming indispensable too. The military-inspired job title, which Palantir began using in the context of business software more than a decade ago, has spread to all corners of the ...
