OpenAI Group PBC will roll out its next model, GPT-5.6, to a small group of partners rather than the public at the request of the Trump administration, the latest sign that Washington now wants to review frontier artificial intelligence models before they ship widely. The plan was disclosed by Chief Executive Sam Altman during a ...

Threat hunting startup Nebulock Inc. revealed today that it has raised $25 million in new funding to push its autonomous hunting platform into broader “hunt-first” security analytics. Founded in 2023, Nebulock offers autonomous, vendor-agnostic threat hunts driven by artificial intelligence. Those hunts span endpoint, identity, cloud, network and software-as-a-service telemetry. Its argument is simple: Most security tooling ...

A major overhaul of the Model Context Protocol due next month removes several longstanding protocol-level security risks but hands developers a fresh set of attack surfaces to defend, according to research published today by Akamai Technologies Inc. The analysis examines the MCP 2026-07-28 specification, the biggest architectural change to the standard since Anthropic PBC created ...

Secure software supply chain solution provider Chainguard Inc. today expanded its Chainguard Repository product with malware scanning, policy enforcement and visibility features that now cover Java packages, Python packages and container images. The update extends protections that previously applied only to JavaScript packages. Chainguard pitches the move as a way for security and platform teams ...

Employee management startup Warp today said it has raised $60 million in new funding to expand a platform that uses artificial intelligence to run payroll and other back-office work with little staff involved. The New York-based company pitches itself as an AI-native alternative to legacy human capital management software, the category long dominated by Workday ...

Incident response company BreachRx Inc. today launched the Rex Platform, an agentic artificial intelligence incident command center built for a future in which AI-accelerated attacks set off several breaches at once. The platform grows out of Rex AI, the generative AI engine BreachRx put out in March. What was an assistant is now pitched as ...

Identity verification company Incode Technologies Inc. today announced that it has acquired Identiq Protocol Ltd., an Israeli startup that builds cryptographic tools letting companies share fraud signals without sharing the underlying customer data. Incode is treating the deal as the centerpiece of a $100 million bet on privacy-preserving identity infrastructure. It did not disclose what ...

Superhuman Inc., the company formerly known as Grammarly, said today it has agreed to acquire GPTZero Inc., the startup whose detection tools tell teachers, editors and hiring managers when a piece of writing came from a machine. The acquisition price was not disclosed. The acquisition is arguably ironic. Grammarly spent years building tools that help ...

Voice artificial intelligence testing startup Coval Inc. revealed today that it has raised $28 million in new funding to expand its platform as more enterprises put voice agents into production. Founded in 2024, Coval offers software that runs simulations, tracks live performance and labels data for AI voice and chat agents. Companies use it to ...

Voice artificial intelligence company Modulate Inc. today launched a tool that flags AI-generated music straight from the audio. The product, an application programming interface called AI Music Detection, scores how likely a clip is to contain AI vocals or AI instrumentals and gives a verdict on the whole file. Streaming services, distributors and rights holders ...