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Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOOD) started by making stock trading simpler and cheaper. That was enough to disrupt an industry, but it was never going to be a particularly durable moat. Competitors could copy commission-free trading, and eventually they did.

A startup called Dodge AI Inc. closed on $2.65 million in seed funding today, saying it can help large organizations avoid hiring an army of external consultants to keep their enterprise software up and running.

We at Opus Research are pleased to welcome Sheila McGee-Smith as a contributor and collaborating analyst. In her first article for the Opus site, Sheila looks at what Salesforce’s acquisition of Fin means for Agentforce Contact Center and CX buyers and decision-makers.

Melissa Fein, who previously served as the firm’s media lead in Australia and New Zealand, is tasked with helping scale its operations in the U.S.

The announcements were made at Epic’s annual Users Group Meeting (UGM) in Verona, Wisconsin, where CEO Judy Faulkner outlined the company’s broader AI strategy around “Ergo,” which Epic describes as healthcare intelligence combining human judgment with AI-driven analysis of large-scale health data.

QualysNASDAQ: QLYS executives said the company’s second-quarter performance reflected growing customer demand for vulnerability remediation, patch management and Enterprise TruRisk Management, or ETM, while positioning newer products as potential drivers of longer-term growth.

SpaceX’s advancement in artificial intelligence is projected to significantly increase its valuation, potentially reaching tens of trillions by the 2030s. This growth prediction is driven by SpaceX’s strategic focus on AI, with parallels to Google’s restructuring of DeepMind and ByteDance’s AI developments. AI technology is seen as a critical factor in the future value of…

In 2026, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s leading domestic memory and artificial intelligence (AI) computing chip company, successfully entered the capital markets, setting a new record for the market capitalisation of a listed company in China’s semiconductor and AI hardware sectors. This marks one of the most symbolic events in the recent capitalisation of China’s…

According to the report, finance teams remain burdened by manual work, and the pressure to deliver faster, cleaner, and more defensible numbers continues to rise.