OpenAI today announced the launch of NextGenAI, a consortium of 15 leading research institutions dedicated to using artificial intelligence to accelerate research breakthroughs and transform education. The consortium launches with $50 million in funding from OpenAI for research grants, compute funding and application programming interface access to support students, educators and researchers who wish to ...

Incident response startup BreachRx Inc. today announced the launch of Rex AI, a new generative artificial intelligence engine that powers a suite of intelligence incident response capabilities. The offering is built on BreachRx’s cybersecurity operational platform data and Cyber RegScout, BreachRx’s cybersecurity, privacy and data breach legal library and offers cyber incident response that allows ...

Cloud security enforcement platform startup Aryon Security Inc. today launched and announced that it has raised $9 million in funding to scale up its platform. The company’s platform enables proactive cloud risk prevention through artificial intelligence-powered policy enforcement. Founded by alumni of the elite “Matzov” unit in the Israel Defense Forces, it’s seeking to disrupt the ...

Software supply chain management firm Sonatype Inc. today announced new capabilities to help organizations securely integrate, manage and govern open-source artificial intelligence and machine learning models through the software development lifecycle, as well as data training and deployment processes. The new capabilities seek to address the challenges arising from the growing use of open-source AI ...

Data integration platform provider Nexla Inc. today announced an update to its Nexla Integration Platform that expands no-code generation, retrieval-augmented generation or RAG pipeline engineering, and data governance capabilities to make enterprise-grade generative artificial intelligence accessible to everyone. The Nexla Integration Platform is a self-service data platform that enables real-time, bidirectional data integrations and data ...

Data security software provider Rubrik Inc. today announced a range of new cyber resilience features at its annual Cyber Resilience Summit, with updates that focus on helping organizations better anticipate, detect and recover from cyberthreats, regardless of where their data resides. “As cybercriminals continue to evolve, so must we,” said co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Arvind Nithrakashyap. ...

Software supply chain company JFrog Ltd. today announced a number of new releases aimed at bringing greater trust, transparency and security to the world of artificial intelligence. The company announced three key updates designed to help enterprises safely deploy machine learning models into production, address rising threats in AI supply chains and simplify the delivery of generative ...

Observability and information technology management software company SolarWinds Worldwide LLC today announced it will acquire Squadcast Inc., a startup that offers incident response solutions, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2017, Squadcast offers a cloud-based incident management platform designed to assist tech teams in accelerating innovation and iterating faster. The platform centralizes alerts, notification rules, escalations, schedules, ...

Updated with Tuesday stock jump: Shares in Okta Inc. jumped more than 24% Tuesday after the identity and access management company reported beats on revenue and earnings in its fiscal 2025 fourth quarter and forecast a better-than-expected outlook for its first quarter and year ahead. For the quarter that ended on Jan. 31, Okta reported ...

Internet of things identity platform provider Keyfactor Inc. today announced the upcoming launch of Command Risk Intelligence, a new capability for managing certificate risks. The new capability is being pitched as a world first, with unmatched visibility into every certificate in use. Users will be able to use the capability to identify and mitigate certificate-related risks before ...