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Markets2026-07-29 · source-backed
24/7 Wall St. tracked Workday +10%, ServiceNow +8%, Salesforce +7%, Adobe and Palantir each +7%, triggered by NVIDIA and AMD dropping 5-7% on a report that NVIDIA is guaranteeing OpenAI data-center financing. The context matters more than the day: Salesforce is still down 33% YTD, Workday down 30%, ServiceNow off 45% over the past year, compression driven by the thesis that agents destroy per-seat licensing. One rotation day doesn't resolve that, and the same coverage warns the bounce reverses if chip sentiment recovers.
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On July 27, Salesforce jumped ~7%, ServiceNow ~8%, Workday ~10% — the same five incumbents Presence repriced last week — with money rotating out of NVIDIA and AMD (both down 5-7% on the OpenAI financing-guarantee report). The bull case cited was that incumbents are monetizing...
NVIDIA launched its open-source Agent Toolkit at GTC 2026 with Adobe, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Siemens, CrowdStrike, Atlassian, and Palantir among 17 named adopters. Models, runtime, security framework, and optimization libraries for autonomous enterprise agents. This move...
Huang used his inaugural X post on July 24 to publish "Open Weights and American AI Leadership," a three-page letter on Nvidia's own servers signed by 25 companies including Meta, Microsoft, IBM, Mistral, Mozilla, Hugging Face, a16z, Palantir and the Linux Foundation. Within a...
Salesforce did it. Then SAP did it. Now ServiceNow. Something's happening. The three largest enterprise software companies by market cap all confirmed pricing transitions away from per-seat licensing in the same quarter. This isn't incremental. This is the death certificate fo...
Salesforce hit a 52-week low after Q4 FY2026 earnings revealed Agentforce revenue cannot yet offset churn in traditional seat-based licenses. The pivot to "Agentic Work Units" (AWUs) tacitly admits 10 AI agents can replace 100 SDRs. Piper Sandler also downgraded Adobe, Freshwo...
John DiFucci upgraded both to Buy purely on valuation, writing explicitly that he is "not upgrading because we see [ServiceNow] as an AI beneficiary," and calling near-term AI monetization "unlikely to materialize." Morgan Stanley cut Salesforce to equal-weight July 21 with a...
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