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Enterprise data pipeline startup DataBahn Inc. today revealed that it has raised $40 million in new funding to accelerate development of what it calls an agentic data control plane. Founded in 2024, DataBahn sells software that sits between the systems generating enterprise …
Cantina launches with $8M to take security work from triage to verified fix
Agentic security startup Cantina formally launched today and said it has raised $8 million in funding to automate the security work that happens after a vulnerability is found. The company was started by security researchers and engineers who spent years finding flaws …
Meta’s AI bill swallows nearly all of its free cash flow as profit falls 14%
Meta Platforms Inc.’s shares fell more than 8% in after-hours trading today after the social networking company beat revenue expectations for its fiscal 2026 second quarter but missed badly on earnings as costs rose 55%. For the quarter that ended on June …
Sweet Security debuts Agentic AI Blocking to stop rogue agents in real time
Israeli runtime security startup Sweet Security Ltd. today unveiled Agentic AI Blocking, a capability that stops artificial intelligence agents mid-action in production when they do something they were not built to do. Released ahead of Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas, …
Nimble launches Web Search Agents to cut AI research token costs
Web search platform company Nimble today launched Web Search Agents, a product that learns a customer’s domain and then runs complex web research tasks on its own. The company is aiming the release at teams that have found general-purpose web search too …
Cyera to buy nonhuman identity startup Oasis Security for a reported $1B
Data security company Cyera Ltd. revealed today that it is set to acquire nonhuman identity management startup Oasis Security Ltd. in a deal Israeli media report is worth about $1 billion. Neither company disclosed terms. Calcalist put the price at roughly $700 …
PayPal tops Q2 estimates and raises full-year forecast amid Stripe takeover bid
Shares in PayPal Holdings Inc. closed regular trading up 4% today after the payments company beat expectations on revenue and earnings in its second quarter and raised its full-year profit forecast, less than two weeks after a $53 billion buyout offer from …
Bugcrowd launches Savant Pathseeker for continuous agentic pentesting
Crowdsourced cybersecurity company Bugcrowd Inc. today launched Savant Pathseeker, an agentic penetration testing tool that continuously tests external web applications and application programming interfaces for vulnerabilities and provides proof that the flaws it finds can actually be exploited. The product is the first in …
1Password aims to cut standing access risks for AI agents
Identity security company 1Password today launched 1Password Privileged Access, a product that gives engineers and AI agents a single task’s worth of access to critical infrastructure and nothing that outlasts it. The product pushes 1Password’s Unified Access platform into privileged access management, …
Tines seeks to tame ‘wild code’ AI sprawl
Workflow automation company Tines Ltd. today launched Tines 3B, an artificial intelligence-native platform for building, running and governing enterprise workflows, applications and agents. The product targets a problem Tines has taken to calling “Wild Code,” the sprawl of AI-generated software now being …