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- Sep 2, 2026Palo Alto Networks Pays $500M for ConsolePalo Alto Networks acquired Console, a two-year-old AI agent platform that automates IT help-desk tasks, for about $500 million in cash and stock -- a roughly 3x markup on the $157 million valuation Thrive Capital backed months earlier.→
- Aug 26, 2026Datadog Jumps on Report of Past Palo Alto BidDatadog shares rose 2.9% after a report that Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora explored acquiring the observability company in spring 2025 when it was valued above $40 billion, talks that never advanced.→
- Aug 3, 2026DeepSeek's Offensive Use Forces a Red-Team RethinkPalo Alto Networks caught an operator using DeepSeek to autonomously attack 460+ systems after Claude and OpenAI's models refused the same job -- a live test of whether model-level refusal is a real safety layer or just a routing problem.→
- Aug 1, 2026DeepSeek Ran Cyberattacks Claude and OpenAI RefusedPalo Alto Networks' Unit 42 found a China-based actor used DeepSeek inside an open-source agent framework to autonomously scan, research and exploit more than 460 internet-facing systems after Claude and OpenAI's models refused the job.→