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Enterprise search and security company Elastic N.V. today introduced AlertZero, a team of specialized artificial intelligence agents for security operations. Built into Elastic Security, the agents take on alert triage, threat hunting and forensic analysis, and each customer decides how much of …
Anthropic launches critical infrastructure program and free OSS Scanner for open source
Anthropic PBC today launched a program that brings its frontier models and onsite engineers to the security companies protecting power grids, water systems and other critical infrastructure. OSS Scanner, launched with it, offers open-source projects free periodic vulnerability scans from the company’s …
Docusign adds a desktop PDF editor to its Intelligent Agreement Management platform
Electronic signature company Docusign Inc. today introduced Docusign PDF Editor, a desktop application for editing PDF documents before they go out for signature. Plugging directly into the company’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, the new release seeks to take on the problem of …
Darwinium launches two intent intelligence capabilities to catch fraud by AI agents
Fraud prevention startup Darwinium UK Ltd. today launched two new capabilities that make intent intelligence the foundation of its platform. Journey Transition Probability flags unusual changes in the steps a person, bot or artificial intelligence agent takes on the way to a …
US venture deal value reaches record $515.8B as exits fail to keep pace
Giant artificial intelligence rounds have pushed U.S. venture capital deal value about 44% past its previous annual record with a quarter still to go, according to the quarterly PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report released today, but the exits needed to return that money …
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices
Anthropic PBC today released Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing its newest small model at roughly a quarter of what Haiku 4.5 costs to run. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is getting cheaper as well, since the company is halving what it charges for cache reads …
Kore.ai launches Autoloop to keep tuning enterprise AI agents after they go live
Enterprise artificial intelligence platform company Kore.ai Inc. today launched Autoloop, an optimization engine for the AI agents that customers build on its Kore.ai Agent Platform. Businesses set the targets, and Autoloop keeps adjusting the agents to hit them automatically, including after they’re …
OneSpan Sign takes aim at the slow work around bank agreements
Authentication and digital agreements company OneSpan Inc. today unveiled new and planned features for its OneSpan Sign electronic signature service that go beyond the signing step. The update is aimed at the parts of the agreement process that slow down banks and …
Anthropic folds Project Glasswing into an expanded three-tier Cyber Verification Program
Anthropic PBC today expanded its Cyber Verification Program into three tiers of access for vetted security teams, with fewer blocks on cybersecurity work at each step up. The overhaul is aimed at a restriction Anthropic built into its own products. Because the …
Google expands EmbeddingGemma beyond text to images, audio and video
Google LLC today released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model small enough to run on a smartphone. The release takes the EmbeddingGemma line beyond text, which was all the first version handled when Google introduced it in September 2025. Images, audio …