CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced the launch of Project QuiltWorks, an industry coalition aimed at helping enterprises find and fix the wave of software vulnerabilities being surfaced by frontier artificial intelligence models. The coalition brings together Accenture PLC, Ernst & Young Global Ltd., IBM Corp.’s Cybersecurity Services arm, Kroll LLC and OpenAI Group PBC alongside CrowdStrike, ...

Artificial intelligence and data security company Cyera Ltd. announced today that it has acquired Ryft Data Inc., an Israeli startup with an automated data lake platform designed for enterprises deploying AI agents. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, although Globes reports that market sources estimate the acquisition is valued at between $100 million and $130 ...

Meta Platforms Inc. told staff today that it’s planning to lay off about 8,000 employees, or roughly 10% of its workforce, and cancel 6,000 open roles in an efficiency drive aimed at offsetting a massive surge in artificial intelligence spending. The cuts take effect on May 20 and, according to Bloomberg, were disclosed in an internal ...

Generative artificial intelligence security startup Portal26 Inc. today announced the launch of a new module designed to rein in runaway token consumption by autonomous AI agents, a problem the company says is driving unpredictable costs and operational instability at enterprises rolling out agentic workflows. The new module lets administrators set token budgets for individual agents, specific workflows ...

Customer engagement platform company Braze Inc. today announced a new pair of agentic artificial intelligence tools for marketers and launched a new Creative Studio that links design software directly to live campaigns. The announcements include general availability of BrazeAI Operator and BrazeAI Agent Console, plus European Union hosting on Google Cloud for BrazeAI Decisioning Studio. ...

Application observability startup groundcover Ltd. today announced a major expansion of its AI Observability capability, adding native support for agentic AI systems fully compatible with Google Vertex AI. The update allows users to trace every large language model interaction and gives engineering and platform teams the ability to add observability to production environments at the speed with ...

Anthropic PBC is investigating a report that unauthorized users accessed Claude Mythos, the next-level artificial intelligence model the company says is powerful enough to enable dangerous cyberattacks. A small group of users in a private online forum gained access to Mythos on the same day Anthropic announced a limited testing release of the model, Bloomberg ...

Treehub, a new Stanford University-adjacent residency program backed by the AI Health Fund, launched today, with billionaire investor Tim Draper and 23andMe Holding Co. founder Anne Wojcicki among the high-profile names attached to an effort to scout early-stage artificial intelligence and healthcare founders emerging from academic labs. Based in Los Altos, California, just off Stanford ...

Security intelligence and management solutions company Exabeam Inc. today announced new Exabeam Agent Behavior Analytics capabilities for agents built with Google Cloud’s Agent Development Kit and an integration framework with Google Agent Gateway that help secure enterprises as they adopt agentic workflows. This update extends Exabeam ABA across the Google agent ecosystem, including Gemini Enterprise, custom-built agents ...

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today expanded its Cloud Detection and Response service to Google Cloud Platform, adding runtime protection for Google workloads as attackers lean on artificial intelligence to break into cloud environments and pivot between systems at faster speeds. Announced at Google Cloud Next 2026 in Las Vegas, the expansion puts Google Cloud alongside Amazon Web ...