Pluto Security Inc. today disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Hugging Face Inc.’s Transformers library that allowed attacker-controlled artificial intelligence models to run arbitrary code on a victim’s machine. The flaw fired through a standard model-loading command, even for organizations that followed Hugging Face’s recommended security guidance. Tracked as CVE-2026-4372, the flaw defeated trust_remote_code=False, ...

Offroad Inc. launched today with $7 million in funding to build what it calls an agentic identity security team, using artificial intelligence agents to investigate and remediate access risks across human users, machine identities and AI agents. Founded in September 2025 and based in New York and Tel Aviv, Offroad is targeting a problem that ...

Google LLC today launched Dreambeans, an experimental app from its Google Labs division that uses artificial intelligence to assemble a finite set of personalized daily stories drawn from a user’s own Google data. The app is pitched as an alternative to the bottomless feed. Rather than serving an endless stream of content, Dreambeans curates a ...

Shares of CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. fell more than 9% in late trading today after the cybersecurity company beat earnings and revenue estimates in its fiscal 2027 first-quarter but disappointed investors with softer-than-expected billings. For the quarter that ended on April 30, CrowdStrike reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.10, up from 73 cents in the ...

WordPress hosting company WP Engine Inc. today added bot management to its Global Edge Security service, giving site operators a way to filter the growing volume of automated and artificial intelligence traffic reaching their sites. The Austin, Texas-based company runs more than 5 million WordPress sites and built Global Edge Security with Cloudflare Inc. The ...

ZutaCore Ltd. announced today that it has raised $100 million in new funding to scale deployments of its waterless liquid cooling technology as artificial intelligence chips push data center cooling past what air- and water-based systems were built to handle. The company sells direct-to-chip, two-phase liquid cooling that allows systems to run without water and ...

Microsoft Corp. today introduced Rayfin, an open-source software development kit and command-line interface that lets developers and coding agents define an entire application back end in code and deploy it onto Microsoft Fabric. Announced at Microsoft Build 2026, Rayfin targets a gap that has widened as artificial intelligence has made it trivial to spin up ...

Shares of Palo Alto Networks Inc. edged down in late trading today despite the cybersecurity company beating expectations on earnings and revenue in its fiscal third quarter and raising its outlook for the rest of the year. For the quarter that ended on April 30, Palo Alto reported adjusted earnings of 85 cents per share, ...

Artificial intelligence and data security company Cyera Ltd. has raised $300 million in new funding at a valuation of $12 billion, more than doubling its worth in five months. Founded in 2021, Cyera’s platform scans cloud accounts, data stores and software-as-a-service applications and maps where a company keeps sensitive information. It then classifies that data ...

Cloud security startup Upwind Security Inc. today announced it has integrated its runtime security platform with Cisco Cloud Control, the unified platform for agentic information technology operations that Cisco Systems Inc. unveiled at its Cisco Live 2026 conference. The integration, built through the open Model Context Protocol, lets joint customers pull Upwind’s live cloud and ...