PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Anthropic PBC today announced a major expansion of their alliance, as the consulting giant is set to roll out Claude Code and Claude Cowork across its workforce and train 30,000 U.S. professionals on the artificial intelligence company’s models. The expanded deal also establishes a joint Center of Excellence and a new Claude-native ...

Unified identity security platform provider Permiso Security Inc. today launched AI agent runtime security capabilities that give security teams continuous visibility into agent activity across cloud and on-premises environments, with Autodesk Inc. signing on as the launch customer. The new capabilities extend Permiso’s unified identity platform to cover what the company calls the fastest-growing and ...

Shares of Figma Inc. rose more than 12% in after-hours trading today after the design software company beat earnings and revenue expectations in its fiscal 2026 first quarter and raised its full-year guidance on stronger-than-expected seat expansion and early traction from its artificial intelligence products. For the quarter ended March 31, Figma reported adjusted earnings ...

Cyber risk management company SecurityScorecard Inc. announced today that it has acquired Driftnet Ltd., a U.K.-based internet scanning and threat intelligence startup, in a deal aimed at bolting real-time global internet visibility onto the cybersecurity firm’s third-party risk management platform. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2021, Driftnet operates an internet scanning engine ...

Open device management company Fleet Device Management Inc. today announced its new autonomous endpoint management platform. The company says it shrinks enterprise patch cycles from the industry average of 55 to 94 days to under two weeks and, in many cases, to hours, as artificial intelligence accelerates both vulnerability discovery and exploitation. The announcement comes ...

Identity and access management company Okta Inc. today expanded its Okta for AI Agents platform to cover any agent ecosystem, any enterprise resource and any identity provider, including a new integration with Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Amazon Bedrock and support for non-Okta identity systems. The expansion is being pitched as a way to let organizations ...

Freshworks Inc. today unveiled an expanded set of agentic capabilities in its Freshservice information technology service management platform led by a new no-code Freddy AI Agent Studio that lets enterprises build, customize, or deploy prebuilt artificial intelligence agents across service workflows. The announcements, made at the company’s annual Refresh conference, also includes a Model Context ...

Microsoft Corp. today detailed a new artificial intelligence-powered vulnerability discovery system that uncovered 16 previously unknown flaws in Windows networking and authentication components, including four critical remote code execution bugs patched in this month’s Patch Tuesday release. The system, code-named MDASH for multimodel agentic scanning harness, was built by Microsoft’s Autonomous Code Security team in ...

Mind Robotics Inc., an industrial robotics startup founded by Rivian Automotive Inc. Chief Executive RJ Scaringe, said today it has raised $400 million in new funding to put more of its artificial intelligence-powered robots onto factory floors. The company is building robots that can handle the kind of fiddly, judgment-based work on a production line ...

Security operations platform startup Blumira Inc. today launched the pilot of Kindling, an agentic security information and event management investigation engine that the company says can reduce alert volume for security teams by 30 to 50 times. Pitched at small and midmarket security operations centers and the managed service providers that support them, Kindling sits on top ...