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Enterprise voice artificial intelligence company Regal Voice Inc. today unveiled an integration with Five9 Inc. that makes its autonomous AI voice agents available to customers of the contact center software provider. Five9 lists the agents in its AI Agent Connect program, a …
Criminals have moved AI out of testing and into daily use, Flashpoint finds
A new report from threat intelligence company Flashpoint has found that criminals now use artificial intelligence in day-to-day operations, well past the experimental stage. The 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report: Midyear Edition covers the first six months of the year. Flashpoint’s analysts …
Palo Alto Networks to run OpenAI cyber models inside customer networks
Palo Alto Networks Inc. said today its Unit 42 consulting arm will put OpenAI Group PBC’s frontier cyber models to work inside customer environments, expanding a service it launched earlier this year to find the attack paths that artificial intelligence-equipped intruders are …
Skan AI raises $63M to give AI agents a map of enterprise work
Process intelligence company Skan AI said today it raised $63 million in a Series C round to help further develop a platform that records how enterprise work actually gets done and feeds that record to artificial intelligence agents. Founded in 2019, the …
Vibe coding startup Lovable doubles valuation to $13.3B with $400M raise
Lovable Labs Inc. said today it has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation. The Swedish artificial intelligence coding startup was worth $6.6 billion in December. The company sells a vibe coding service. Users describe what they …
Ahrefs launches AI agent workspace Letaido for marketers and agencies
Marketing intelligence company Ahrefs Pte. Ltd. today launched Letaido, an agent-powered marketing workspace built to take over the recurring research, reporting and monitoring work that fills up a marketing team’s week. In most marketing departments, generative artificial intelligence is still something people …
First Akira Safe Mode attack disables endpoint detection and response but fails to encrypt, Huntress says
Huntress Labs Inc. said today that an Akira ransomware affiliate rebooted a victim’s Windows server into Safe Mode to knock its endpoint security offline — and it worked. The same reboot also broke the ransomware. Safe Mode loads only core Windows drivers …
Apexon targets stalled AI pilots with three AgentRise additions
Santa Clara-based technology services firm Apexon Inc. today expanded AgentRise, its agentic artificial intelligence platform, with three new components. The additions are named AgentRise Polaris, AgentRise Lodestone and AgentRise Harness. Each maps to one of three disciplines Apexon has built its client …
Google’s Gemini AI app passes 1 billion monthly active users
Google LLC’s Gemini artificial intelligence app has passed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th product in the company’s history to reach that mark. The company announced the milestone today in a blog post from Josh Woodward, vice president of …
FriskAI launches with $3.6M to show enterprises what their AI agents are doing
Runtime intelligence startup FriskAI Inc. launched today with $3.6 million in pre-seed funding to give enterprises a record of what their artificial intelligence agents actually do once they go into production. FriskAI is aiming at a problem that comes with agents. Given …