Artificial intelligence fraud prevention platform company Darwinium UK Ltd. today announced the launch of a new intent-based authentication and orchestration solution designed to secure the rapidly emerging world of agentic commerce. As AI agents increasingly browse, purchase and manage accounts on behalf of consumers, businesses face a new security reality. Darwinium argues that because of ...

Quantro Security Inc., an artificial intelligence-driven cybersecurity startup developing autonomous AI agents for vulnerability management and enterprise risk analysis, launched today with its first product, VM.Analyst. The company was built by architects who previously held engineering and product leadership roles at CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., Tenable Holdings Inc. and Qualys Inc. They’re building a new automated ...

Compliance automation platform provider Secureframe Inc. today announced the launch of Secureframe Defense, an artificial intelligence-powered, end-to-end platform that helps defense industrial base contractors achieve and maintain Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification compliance. Secureframe Defense is designed to deliver secure infrastructure deployment, AI-built System Security Plans, policies and comprehensive monitoring that DIB organizations need to achieve and maintain ...

Offensive security engineering platform startup Escape Technologies SAS announced today that it has raised $18 million in new funding to expand its artificial intelligence-agent security platform, including developing agentic penetration testing capabilities and scaling up its engineering and enterprise go-to-market teams in the U.S. and Europe. Founded in 2020, Escape offers an offensive security engineering ...

OpenAI Group PBC announced today that it plans to acquire testing and security evaluation platform for artificial intelligence applications startup Promptfoo Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2024, Promptfoo began as an open-source framework for evaluating AI prompts and model behavior. It later expanded into a commercial platform used by developers and enterprise security ...

Governance platform provider OneTrust LLC today announced new capabilities that expand its platform to support real-time artificial intelligence governance that moves beyond traditional compliance checks to continuous monitoring and enforcement of AI systems. The capabilities are designed for data, risk and AI teams to empower organizations to shift AI governance from static compliance workflows to ...

Cybersecurity startup Cylake Inc. launched today with an announcement that it had raised $45 million in funding to further develop its artificial intelligence-driven platform. Founded by Nir Zuk, Wilson Xu and Ehud (Udi) Shamir (pictured), veterans of Palo Alto Networks Inc. and SentinelOne Inc., Cylake is developing a cybersecurity platform designed for organizations that require ...

Senior-care technology company Sage revealed today that it has raised $65 million in new funding to improve the quality of life for older adults and their caregivers. Founded in 2020 as Elder Technologies Inc., Sage offers a platform that is designed for use by senior living and skilled nursing providers to monitor resident activity and ...

Shares of Samsara Inc. jumped more than 11% in late trading today after the internet of things cloud platform provider impressed with earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2026 fourth quarter and provided guidance ahead of expectations. For the quarter that ended on Jan. 31, Samsara reported adjusted earnings per share of 18 cents, ...

A new report out today from Google LLC’s Threat Intelligence Group finds that zero-day vulnerability exploitation remained elevated in 2025 as attackers increasingly targeted enterprise infrastructure and security appliances rather than traditional consumer software. A zero-day vulnerability is a previously unknown software vulnerability that attackers exploit before the vendor has had zero days to fix ...