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Israeli venture firm Team8 today published research on why institutional money is flowing away from the newest venture funds, as global limited partners put 6% of their 2025 commitments into funds smaller than $50 million. That is the lowest reading since the …
Google says attackers used AI agents to steal credentials in under six hours
Threat actors used a multi-agent artificial intelligence framework to compromise thousands of credentials in under six hours, Google LLC’s Google Threat Intelligence Group said in a report released today. Mandiant investigators traced the campaign to a suspected financially motivated actor that first …
ClickFix moves into the browser and onto WebDAV, Cisco Talos finds
Cisco Systems Inc.’s Talos Threat Intelligence group today detailed two ClickFix campaigns that push the technique past the copy-and-paste PowerShell prompt it is known for, one that never touches the operating system at all and one that ends in a stealer plus …
OpenAI to set misalignment disclosure rules after agents took over a wiki
OpenAI Group PBC acknowledged Saturday that it did not publicly disclose an episode in which its artificial intelligence agents wrote to outside websites and said it will publish a framework in the coming weeks for reporting misaligned model behavior. The company now …
Smart ring maker Oura files for IPO as revenue jumps 74%
Smart ring maker Oura Inc. filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today for a proposed initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “OURA.” Oura filed confidentially for the listing in May. …
Cloudflare taps OpenAI’s cyber models to find and block code flaws
Cloudflare Inc. today opened early access to Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, a service that uses OpenAI Group PBC’s cybersecurity models to find software flaws in customer applications and block attacks on them at the network edge. The service runs inside Cloudflare Managed …
Self-driving truck firm PlusAI takes third run at listing, this time at $800M
Autonomous trucking software developer Plus Automation Inc., known as PlusAI, said today it will go public through a merger with blank-check company Texas Ventures Acquisition III Corp. at a pre-money equity value of about $800 million. That makes three attempts at a …
Zscaler beats Q4 estimates but shares hold flat after-hours
Shares in Zscaler Inc. sagged in after-hours trading today even after the cloud security company beat Wall Street estimates on both revenue and earnings in its fiscal fourth quarter and issued fiscal 2027 earnings guidance above analyst expectations. The stock fell 2% …
Capsule Security fine-tunes Nvidia Nemotron models to stop rogue AI agents
Agentic artificial intelligence security startup Capsule Security Ltd. today released a detection system built on two Nvidia Corp. Nemotron models it fine-tuned itself, in what it calls an “AI circuit breaker” for rogue AI agents. The models judge an agent’s intended action …
As AI security concerns rise, HiddenLayer raises $100M and Huskeys bags $27M
Artificial intelligence security startup HiddenLayer Inc. today announced a $100 million Series B round, and a separate $27 million Series A went to edge security company Huskeys Security Ltd. Austin-based HiddenLayer, which dates to 2022, offers a product that checks models and …