Shares in Salesforce Inc. plunged over 15% in after-hours trading today after the cloud-based software company missed on revenue in its fiscal first quarter — the first time it has reported a revenue miss since 2006 — and also fell short on its outlook. For its first quarter ended April 30, Salesforce reported adjusted earnings ...

Artificial intelligence startup Maven AGI Inc. today launched with $20 million in funding to expand its engineering, marketing and partnership teams. Founded in 2023, Maven AGI debuts with a platform that is designed to transform enterprise customer support through generative AI. The company’s platform is said to reimagine customer service from the ground up by ...

Software supply chain company JFrog Ltd. today announced a new partnership with Microsoft Corp.-owned GitHub to deliver an integrated platform that allows joint customers to manage “EveryOps” for developers, including DevOps, DevSecOps, MLOps and generative artificial intelligence-powered apps. The partnership seeks to assist development teams that manage both source code and binaries, with integration between JFrog and ...

Machine learning observability startup Aporia Technologies Ltd. today launched Guardrails for Multimodal AI Applications, a new service that extends its existing artificial intelligence guardrails solution to include guardrails for vision and audio. Claimed to be a first-of-its-kind solution, Guardrails for Multimodal AI Applications is designed to mitigate issues in video and audio-based AI applications, such as hallucinations, ...

Cloud security company Lacework Inc. today announced the release of Lacework Edge, a new security service edge product that extends Lacework’s existing platform’s features to making users and networks more secure. Lacework Edge is a proxy-based, cloud-native product that offers zero-trust connectivity by leveraging contextual data to make continuous risk-based access decisions. The service secures access from ...

FIDO Alliance, the open authentication standards industry association, today announced the launch of a certification platform to test and certify the performance of remote biometric identity verification technology. The new Face Verification Certification program does as the name suggests — it verifies faces — although simply looking at a face isn’t where the idea stops ...

U.S. prescription management company Sav-Rx has disclosed that the records of more than 2.8 million customers have been exposed in a data breach that occurred in October last year. The first indication of the breach was made in a May 24 filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General, with the company then following ...

Cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is warning that it’s seeing a rise in threat actors exploiting remote-access virtual private network environments to gain authorized access to enterprises. Over the last few months, Check Point researchers have observed malicious groups leveraging VPNs as an entry point and attack vector into organizations. The groups aim to ...

Infamous hacking site BreachForums is back online some two weeks after being taken down by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice — and to add insult to injury, it’s using the same domain name that was seized by the FBI. BreachForums was taken offline on May 15, with a message on ...

Israeli security management platform startup A.S. Adaptive Shield Ltd. today said it’s expanding its security platform to manage permissions and shared data better in software-as-a-service applications, aiming to make it easer for companies to protect sensitive information. The new extensions to Adaptive Shield’s platform include extending SaaS coverage to entitlement management to drive SaaS security ...