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Zendesk announces deal to acquire customer support AI startup Forethought
Customer service and sales software provider Zendesk Inc. today announced that it plans to acquire artificial intelligence software for customer support teams startup Forethought Technologies Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2017, Forethought offers AI software that is used by customer support teams to automate the handling and resolution of service inquiries. The company’s platform applies natural ...
Cybersecurity startup Kai raises $125M to build agent-driven AI security platform
Cybersecurity startup Kai Cyber Inc. today launched with an announcement that it has raised $125 million in new funding to develop and scale up its platform. Founded in 2025 by Galina Antova, a co-founder of industrial cybersecurity company Claroty Ltd., and Damiano Bolzoni, a co-founder of SecurityMatter Ltd. (pictured), Kai offers an artificial intelligence-driven cybersecurity ...
F5 announces platform-wide upgrades including Insight observability and AI security tools
F5 Inc. today announced a series of updates to its Application Delivery and Security Platform aimed at helping enterprises secure modern applications, including artificial intelligence workloads and hybrid and multicloud environments. The announcements, made at the company’s annual AppWorld conference in Las Vegas, include new security capabilities, observability tools and infrastructure improvements designed for emerging ...
IO River introduces edge security platform running Check Point WAF across multiple CDNs
Virtual edge solution startup IO River Ltd. today announced a new security solution designed to operate natively and consistently across multiple content delivery networks powered by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.’s Web Application Firewall. The new solution utilizes IO River’s multi-edge architecture and edge compute capabilities to execute security logic directly where traffic terminates far from the ...
Zymtrace raises $12.2M to optimize AI workload performance across GPU infrastructure
Artificial intelligence infrastructure optimization platform startup Zymtrace announced today that it has raised $12.2 million in funding, including a newly closed $8.5 million seed round, to develop its platform, expand enterprise deployments and grow its U.S. go-to-market team. Founded in 2024, Zymtrace offers a platform designed to analyze and optimize the performance of AI workloads ...
Netskope launches Netskope One AI Security suite to protect agentic AI and enterprise models
Cloud security company Netskope Inc. today announced the launch of Netskope One AI Security, a new suite of artificial intelligence security capabilities that protect, make visible and accelerate the entire AI ecosystem. The new offering introduces new products to power and enable the AI era, as well as the brand-new, first-of-its-kind AI Index, which provides global tracking ...
Fortanix expands Data Security Manager with quantum entropy from Qrypt and Quantum Dice
Data security company Fortanix Inc. today announced a new multi-sourced quantum entropy capability within Fortanix Data Security Manager that allows enterprises to diversify encryption key generation at the origin of trust. The update combines quantum randomness through partnerships with Qrypt Inc. and Quantum Dice Inc., integrating multiple physics-based entropy sources directly into key management workflows. The result ...
Kevin Mandia’s Armadin raises record $189.9M to develop AI-driven cyberattack simulation software
Artificial intelligence-native cybersecurity company Armadin Inc. announced today that it has raised a cybersecurity industry-record $189.9 million in seed and Series A funding to expand engineering and research teams, further develop the AI-driven attack simulation platform and scale up its deployment in enterprise environments. Founded in 2024, the company is led by Chief Executive Kevin ...
Domo shares rally 30% as earnings beat expectations despite modest revenue growth
Shares in Domo Inc. surged more than 30% in late trading today after the business intelligence and data visualization software company beat expectations for its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter. For the quarter that ended on Jan. 31, Domo reported adjusted earnings per share of three cents, up from a loss of five cents per share ...
AWS updates Security Hub to aggregate security findings across multicloud environments
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced an expansion of the AWS Security Hub designed to unify operations across multicloud environments and third-party security tools. The update positions the offering as a centralized platform for aggregating security findings and helping security teams investigate and respond to threats from a single location. AWS Security Hub was originally ...