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Shares of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and NetApp Inc. both fell in late trading today despite the two compute, storage and networking companies beating Wall Street expectations for their July quarters and raising their full-year outlooks. For its fiscal third quarter, which …
CrowdStrike gives AI agents an identity provider, parallel SOC investigations and package blocking
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced three additions to its Falcon platform: an identity provider built for artificial intelligence agents, a rebuilt investigation layer that runs multiple Charlotte AI agents across security domains at once, and a feature that blocks malicious open-source packages …
OpenMatter adds an AI model gateway and privacy-preserving machine learning
OpenMatter Network Inc. today announced the first significant expansion of its platform since its commercial launch three months ago, adding a developer kit, a gateway for managing access to artificial intelligence models from multiple providers, a rebuilt privacy-preserving machine learning engine and …
IBM Ventures backs BQP as quantum-accelerated simulation reaches production
Physics acceleration startup BQP announced today that IBM Ventures has invested in the company, though neither side revealed how much. IBM Ventures is the investment arm of IBM Corp. BQP plans to spend the money taking its simulation platform into operational deployment. …
Lasso Security launches CPU-only AI guardrail, raises $30M
Artificial intelligence security startup Lasso Security Ltd. today launched a guardrail for AI applications that runs on ordinary server processors, with no graphics chip required. The product is called LEAP. Lasso also announced $30 million in new funding. Enterprises that put guardrails …
AIR Security launches with $50M to build a firewall for AI agents
Artificial intelligence agent security startup AIR Security Inc. formally launched today with $50 million in funding to build what it calls an inline firewall for AI agents. Founded earlier this year, AIR is going after a gap that has opened as coding …
Palo Alto Networks beats estimates but margin concerns send shares lower
Shares of Palo Alto Networks Inc. fell about 2% in late trading today after the cybersecurity company beat Wall Street targets in its fiscal fourth quarter and guided above consensus for the year ahead — though not on margins. The stock had …
CrowdStrike builds security frontier models with Nvidia and opens an AI lab
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today launched SafeMind, a family of artificial intelligence models and agent harnesses created with Nvidia Corp. and built for security work rather than general use. A research organization the company also unveiled today, the Cyber Superintelligence Lab, produced them. …
CrowdStrike launches Falcon Guardian to police AI agents at the endpoint
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today unveiled Falcon Guardian, software that finds the artificial intelligence agents running inside a company and shuts down the ones security teams have not approved. The launch came at the company’s Fal.Con 2026 conference in Las Vegas. Guardian is …
CBTS launches Forge Agents to build custom AI agents in days
Information technology services company CBTS Technology Solutions LLC today launched Forge Agents, a platform that turns a plain-language description of a job into a working artificial intelligence agent and then runs it under enterprise security controls. Midmarket companies are the target buyer. …