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Industrial robotics startup Maven Robotics Inc. launched today with $100 million in Series A funding, two years after it started working with its first customer. Founded in 2024, the Santa Clara-based company began with mixed-case palletizing and tote handling, which Maven estimates …
DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash, says it outperforms flagship V4-Pro
Chinese artificial intelligence startup Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. today released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, the smallest model in a new architecture family. The company said tests by multiple parties put the open-weight model ahead of its much larger DeepSeek-V4-Pro on …
Adobe shares slip as Q4 revenue guidance falls short despite a Q3 beat
Shares of Adobe Inc. fell more than 1% in after-hours trading today after a third-quarter beat from the creative software company came with a fourth-quarter revenue forecast whose midpoint fell below analyst expectations. For the quarter ended on Aug. 28, Adobe reported …
Anthropic says AI now lets lone operators run state-level hacking campaigns
Individual hackers are now sustaining campaigns that would have needed many skilled operators a year ago, because artificial intelligence has absorbed the labor that used to set state-backed teams apart. That’s according to AI model developer Anthropic PBC, which today published its …
Gravwell adds five AI agents that gather their own investigation context
Security data platform company Gravwell Inc. today released Gravwell 5.10, an update that puts five artificial intelligence agents inside a customer’s deployment. The agents collect the context an investigation needs on their own. A Model Context Protocol server gets them there. An agent …
JumpCloud extends Agentic IAM with new controls for autonomous AI agents
Identity and access management company JumpCloud Inc. today extended its Agentic IAM service to give information technology teams direct control over the autonomous artificial intelligence agents running inside their organizations. Agents now sit in the same directory as employees and their laptops. Every …
General Robotics’ GRID platform engineers itself, cutting robot setup to hours
General Robotics Technology Inc. said today that its GRID robot intelligence platform now automates its own engineering work, cutting the time needed to get a new robot into production from about a month to as little as two hours. The Redmond, Washington-based …
Cymphony launches with $30M to track what AI agents can reach
Enterprise security startup Cymphony Inc. formally launched today with $30 million in funding and software that tracks what artificial intelligence agents and employees can reach inside company systems. The two-year-old company is now worth more than $100 million, TechCrunch reported. Cymphony’s platform …
Orchid Security gives enterprises a kill switch for rogue AI agents
Identity security startup Orchid Security Inc. today added identity drift detection and application-level kill switches for artificial intelligence agents to its Identity Control Plane. The controls are meant to let security teams strip an agent of its authority the moment its behavior …
Radware finds web DDoS attacks doubled as the patch window turns negative
A new report out today from Radware Ltd. finds that web distributed denial-of-service attacks more than doubled over the first six months of 2026. Mitigations rose 110.6% against the same period last year, and 36.3% against the second half of 2025. The …