Fortinet Inc. today expanded its FortiEndpoint platform with a set of features aimed at helping companies monitor employee use of artificial intelligence tools and stop sensitive data from leaking into them. The update adds AI visibility and controls, built-in data loss prevention and an AI assistant for security teams to the endpoint product, which Fortinet ...

Software-defined test and measurement startup Liquid Instruments Pty. Ltd. today launched GenInst Studio, software that turns a plain-language description into a custom, ready-to-run test instrument on the company’s reconfigurable Moku hardware. GenInst Studio takes the request through a chat interface and hands back a validated, application-specific instrument, with no field-programmable gate array code for the user to ...

Cloudflare Inc. today opened general availability for Precursor, a bot detection system that tracks how a visitor behaves across an entire browsing session instead of testing them once on arrival. Precursor runs inside the browser. It streams interaction signals back to Cloudflare’s edge, where servers score them in real time for evidence of automation. The ...

Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.io Corp. announced today that it has acquired Deeptune Inc., a startup that builds simulated software environments used to train AI agents. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal closed nearly four months after Mercor Chief Executive Brendan Foody wrote a personal angel check into Deeptune’s $43 million Series A ...

Cybersecurity startup QIZ Security Ltd. today announced it has raised $17 million in seed funding to expand a platform that discovers and governs the encryption buried across enterprise systems ahead of the migration to quantum-safe algorithms. Founded in 2025, the company offers a platform that connects to enterprise systems over application programming interfaces rather than ...

Market data platform startup Databento Inc. today revealed that it has raised $97 million in new funding to broaden its data coverage across asset classes and expand internationally. Investor demand ran past $300 million, according to the company, more than three times what the round finally took. Founded in 2019, the company sells real-time and ...

Secure remote privileged access company Cyolo Ltd. today announced Cyolo CPS Segmentation, a microsegmentation product that extends its platform beyond human-to-machine access into controlling how machines and systems communicate across critical infrastructure. The offering targets a gap industrial operators have long acknowledged but rarely closed. Segmentation caps how far an intruder can travel after breaking ...

Researchers at U.K.-based cybersecurity company Darktrace Holdings Ltd. today detailed a cloud intrusion in which a compromised artificial intelligence gateway tied to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Amazon Bedrock was hijacked to mine cryptocurrency. The compromised system was an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instance named “LiteLLM-Proxy” that ran the open-source LiteLLM software and carried an instance ...

Unified identity security platform provider Permiso Security Inc. today launched the Risk Score Engine, a model that assigns continuous, multidimensional risk scores to every human, machine and artificial intelligence identity across an organization’s environment. The tool produces three outputs. Identity Risk Scores rank which identities carry the most risk, Session Scores flag activity that needs immediate investigation, ...

Enterprise artificial intelligence startup Corvic AI Inc. today released Corvic V5, a version of its platform built around reusing prompts, so when one gets the right answer, V5 can save it as a workflow that fires again on its own and pulls in current data. The company sells what it calls an Intelligence Composition Platform. ...