Agentic artificial intelligence for health plan claims operations startup Alaffia Health Inc. announced today that it has raised $55 million in new funding to accelerate growth, launch new AI agents and increase research and development. Founded in 2020, Alaffia is focused on reducing administrative waste and improving accuracy across health plan claims operations. The company ...

Cybersecurity-as-a-service startup Radicl Defense Inc. announced today that it has raised $31 million in early-stage funding to accelerate the development of its autonomous virtual security operations center built specifically for small and medium-sized businesses. Radicl was founded in 2021 to bring enterprise-grade cybersecurity to SMBs that serve the U.S. defense industrial base and critical infrastructure. ...

Software supply chain security startup RapidFort Inc. announced today that it has raised $42 million in early-stage funding to expand go-to-market efforts, advance automated remediation, deepen enterprise adoption in regulated industries, and expand software supply chain security from build through runtime. Founded in 2020, RapidFort secures modern software supply chains by eliminating vulnerabilities before they ...

Fieldguide Inc. revealed today that it has raised $75 million in new funding on a $700 million valuation to scale up its agentic artificial intelligence platform for audit and advisory services, expand its agentic AI toolset and grow its team. Founded in 2020, Fieldguide offers an AI-powered platform that transforms the way audit and advisory ...

Moltbook, the recently launched social media platform for artificial intelligence agents, has been hit by a major security lapse that has left millions of sensitive credentials exposed, according to a report today from cybersecurity firm Wiz Inc. Moltbook is designed as a social network where OpenClaw AI agents can create posts, interact with one another and carry ...

Shares in Palantir Technologies Inc. rose more than 5% in late trading today after the big data analytics company reported fourth-quarter earnings and revenue ahead of expectations and provided guidance well ahead of expectations. For the quarter that ended on Dec. 31, Palantir reported adjusted earnings per share of 25 cents, up from 14 cents ...

Cisco Foundation AI, Cisco System Inc.’s research and engineering group focused on building foundational artificial intelligence technologies, today announced a suite of new agentic security tools. They’re designed to help enterprises secure AI systems as they become more autonomous, interconnected and embedded across business operations. The new releases are focused on allowing AI systems to reason ...

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP today announced an expanded alliance with Google Cloud that includes a $400 million, three-year collaboration to help organizations modernize security operations and strengthen cyber resilience through artificial intelligence-driven, intelligence-led defense. The expanded collaboration builds on work that PwC and Google Cloud are already doing to support organizations that are facing increasingly complex cyberthreats, ...

Insurance platform company Ethos Technologies Inc. saw its shares close down more than 11% on its first day of trading after the company made its debut on the Nasdaq this morning. The company priced its initial public offering at $19 per share and raised roughly $200 million from the sale of 10.5 million shares on ...

Shares in both Sandisk Corp. and Western Digital Corp. rosein late trading today after both impressed with better-than-expected quarterly results, benefiting from rising storage demand as cloud and artificial intelligence data center workloads continue to grow. For its fiscal 2026 second quarter that ended on Jan. 2, Sandisk reported adjusted earnings per share of $6.20, ...