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When Sunil Kotagiri left a comfortable executive role at Cisco to launch a cybersecurity startup powered by artificial intelligence, he wasn’t chasing a trend. He was responding to a problem he had watched metastasize over two decades in enterprise technology: the sheer volume of cyber threats had outpaced the human capacity to manage them.

The Internal Revenue Service is locked in what may become the most consequential corporate tax dispute ever waged on American soil, with the agency claiming that Meta Platforms owes tens of billions of dollars in back taxes stemming from a complex intellectual property transfer executed more than a decade ago. The case, which centers on how Facebook — as the company was then known — valued its intangible assets when shifting them to an Irish subsidiary in 2010, could reshape how multinational technology companies structure their global tax obligations for years to come.

A small, sleek vehicle with no steering wheel and no pedals was recently spotted circling the test track at Tesla’s sprawling Gigafactory in Austin, Texas — and the implications for the autonomous vehicle industry are enormous. The Cybercab, Tesla’s purpose-built robotaxi, appears to have moved from the realm of concept renderings and stage presentations into physical, on-the-ground testing, marking a tangible step toward the company’s ambitious goal of launching an autonomous ride-hailing service in Austin by June 2025.

For years, software companies were Wall Street’s darlings — high-margin businesses with recurring revenue streams that seemed almost impervious to economic cycles. But in early 2026, a violent repricing has swept through the sector, wiping hundreds of billions of dollars in market capitalization and forcing investors to confront an uncomfortable truth: the very artificial intelligence boom that was supposed to supercharge software companies may instead be cannibalizing them.