Private capital market intelligence company PitchBook Data Inc. today announced the upcoming launch of PitchBook Navigator, a generative artificial intelligence tool that delivers private capital market insights through natural-language prompts directly within the PitchBook Platform. The new Navigator service, which is planned to be available to PitchBook users later this month, will allow users to ask ...

Cloud-native application security firm Sysdig Inc. today announced new open-source threat investigation and analysis capabilities for its runtime security tool Falco as part of its vision for a unified open-source cloud security platform. Falco is a runtime security tool that detects suspicious or abnormal behavior in cloud environments in real time. A Cloud Native Computing Foundation graduated ...

Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google LLC, has cleared a major regulatory hurdle in its planned $32 billion acquisition of cloud security startup Wiz Inc., as the U.S. Department of Justice completed its antitrust review without objections. The news was first revealed by Wiz Chief Executive Officer Assaf Rappaport at a Wall Street Journal ...

Cybersecurity insurance company Coalition Inc. today announced that it has acquired managed detection and response startup Wirespeed Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in July 2024, Wirespeed assist organizations detect and respond to cyberthreats with an automated MDR platform that reduces the time from threat detection to verdict measured in milliseconds rather than hours or days. Wirespeed’s ...

Shares in Block Inc. fell about 10% in late trading today after the financial services company missed on revenue and earnings in its third quarter. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Block reported adjusted earnings per share of 54 cents, up slightly from 53 cents per share in the same quarter of 2024, on revenue ...

Open-source security software company Truffle Security Co. announced today that it has raised $25 million in new funding to fuel continued growth of TruffleHog Enterprise, the company’s enterprise-grade secrets detection, verification and remediation solution, and expand its development in secrets and nonhuman identities protection. Founded in 2019, Truffle Security provides paid solutions based on TruffleHog, ...

Real-time event and risk detection company Dataminr Inc. today announced the launch of Dataminr Developer Portal and an enhanced Software Development Kit to make it easier for developers and partners to integrate its artificial intelligence-powered real-time intelligence into applications. The Dataminr Developer Portal has been designed to streamline the entire integration journey by giving users frictionless access ...

Cybersecurity software company Keeper Security Inc. today announced the launch of Keeper Forcefield, a new service that provides protection against memory-based attacks on Windows devices. Forcefield offers kernel-level endpoint security that proactively defends against memory-based attacks, including credential theft from infostealers and runtime memory-scraping malware. Keeper claims that the offering is the first to deliver real-time memory ...

Shares in Snap Inc. jumped more than 20% in late trading today after the company announced a new deal with Perplexity AI Inc. and impressed investors with earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal third quarter. The new partnership with Perplexity will see Perplexity’s artificial intelligence-powered “answer engine” directly integrated into Snapchat, giving Snapchat’s community ...

A new report out today from Google LLC’s Threat Intelligence Group warns that there has been a major shift in cybercrime as attackers are no longer using artificial intelligence solely for productivity but are now deploying AI-enabled malware directly in active operations. The GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Advances in Threat Actor Usage of AI Tools ...