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Cybersecurity validation startup Picus Security Inc. today launched the Picus Autonomous Exposure Validation Platform, a system that merges breach and attack simulation, autonomous penetration testing and exposure validation into a single automated loop. The platform is aimed at a question security teams struggle …
Assail launches Sidewinder, an offensive security AI that fixes its own mistakes
Autonomous security company Assail Inc. today launched Sidewinder, a rebuilt version of its Ares offensive security platform that runs on a new 31 billion-parameter model designed to audit its own findings and repair its own mistakes without human intervention. Sidewinder is a …
CyberProof launches agentic MXDR to automate two-thirds of investigations
CyberProof Inc., a co-managed security services company owned by UST Global Inc., today launched an agentic artificial intelligence service that it says can autonomously handle up to two-thirds of security investigations while leaving human analysts in control of critical decisions. The service, …
Radware adds Claude Code protection and compliance reporting to agent security
Application and network security company Radware Ltd. today expanded its Agentic AI Protection product with compliance reporting, deeper visibility into artificial intelligence agent activity, and new protection for agents that run directly on developer machines, including Anthropic PBC’s Claude Code. As enterprises …
AI agent exploits Langflow in first fully autonomous ransomware attack
Cloud security company Sysdig Inc. has documented what it says is the first ransomware operation carried out from start to finish by an autonomous artificial intelligence agent, a campaign it calls JadePuffer. Sysdig’s Threat Research Team spelled out its findings in research …
Google disrupts NetNut residential proxy network built on 2 million devices
Google LLC has disrupted NetNut, one of the largest residential proxy networks in operation, degrading a service that had turned more than 2 million home devices worldwide into relays for other people’s internet traffic. The action was carried out in coordination with …
Sam Altman calls for US-led international forum to set global AI standards
Sam Altman is calling for a US-led international forum to set global safety standards for artificial intelligence, arguing that no single country should be left to dominate the technology. In an op-ed published Wednesday in the Financial Times, OpenAI Group PBC’s chief …
StirlingX raises $20M for sovereign data intelligence platform
British data intelligence startup StirlingX Ltd. has raised $20 million in an early-stage round to accelerate product development and push into new markets. StirlingX describes itself as a data intelligence company built inside a drone maker. Its platform is designed to capture, …
Global venture funding hits record $510B in first half as AI boom accelerates
Startups worldwide raised a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, according to a new report out today from market intelligence company Crunchbase Inc. The figure was more than investors put into venture deals across all of last year, when …
Verkada takes Nvidia investment to expand its physical AI platform
Physical security company Verkada Inc. has taken an investment from Nvidia Corp. and signed a technical partnership with the chipmaker, the two said today, in a deal meant to speed up the artificial intelligence running across Verkada’s 2.4 million connected devices. The …