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Cloudflare Inc. and newsletter platform beehiiv Inc. today launched an integration that hands independent publishers a single toggle to decide whether artificial intelligence crawlers can reach their work. The integration bakes Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control into the beehiiv dashboard. Writers face a …
Linux Foundation extends DNS to AI agents with new Agent Name Service
The Linux Foundation said today it plans to launch the Agent Name Service, an open standard that gives artificial intelligence agents trusted identities through the same Domain Name System that already runs the internet. Using ANS, a system or a person can …
Partly raises $50M at a $500M valuation to crack the US auto parts market
Partly Group Ltd., a New Zealand startup using artificial intelligence to change up the automotive parts business, announced today that it has raised $50 million new funding at a $500 million valuation. It’s also opening its first U.S. operation, betting that the …
Minimus opens its entire secure container image catalog to developers for free
Container image startup Minimus Inc. today announced that it’s removing the registration wall on its entire catalog of secure container images, making the full library free to any developer. The company tied the decision to artificial intelligence tools that are now finding …
New Dragos AI assistant EmberAI targets the OT security skills gap
Industrial control system cybersecurity company Dragos Inc. today launched EmberAI, an artificial intelligence assistant built specifically for operational technology environments that aims to put the company’s threat intelligence in the hands of analysts at any experience level. EmberAI runs on the Dragos …
OpenAI expands Daybreak with Patch the Planet and full GPT-5.5-Cyber release
OpenAI Group PBC today expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity program with a new open-source patching initiative called Patch the Planet, an updated Codex Security plugin, a partner program and the full release of its most capable defensive artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.5-Cyber. The push …
Prem seeks $100M Series A as export bans boost sovereign AI demand
Swiss artificial intelligence startup Prem SA is raising $100 million in Series A funding at a valuation of at least $500 million, Bloomberg reported today. The round is expected to close in the third quarter. Prem sells software for running AI models …
Game-clip AI startup General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at $2B valuation
General Intuition PBC is in talks to raise about $300 million at a valuation of just over $2 billion, TechCrunch reported today, citing people familiar with the talks. The New York-based startup uses video game footage to train artificial intelligence agents to …
Cloudflare blocked 38.5 billion attacks on civil society groups in the past year
Cloudflare Inc. mitigated 38.5 billion cyberattacks against civil society organizations over the past year, the company said in a report out today, and most of it was one kind of attack: Distributed denial-of-service floods made up 81.7% of the malicious traffic. The …
BlackFog launches ADX Vision for macOS to curb shadow AI leaks
BlackFog Inc. today launched ADX Vision for macOS, extending its shadow artificial intelligence detection and prevention platform to Apple Inc. endpoints so security teams can apply one data-loss policy across Windows and Mac fleets. The anti-data exfiltration company claims the release closes …