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Chip-design startup BoolSi Inc. today announced it has raised $6 million in seed funding to build a compiler that turns ordinary software into custom hardware, doing away with the years of digital-logic training that chip design has always demanded. Co-founder and Chief …
Pramaana Labs raises $27M to make AI prove its answers
Formal verification startup Pramaana Labs Inc. today said it has raised $27 million in seed funding for a system it describes as a compiler for high-stakes artificial intelligence. The product checks an AI model’s answer against the rules of a domain and …
AWS launches Continuum to find and fix code vulnerabilities at machine speed
Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched AWS Continuum, a security platform that uses frontier artificial intelligence models to discover, validate and remediate software vulnerabilities across a customer’s environment with limited human intervention. Continuum, announced at the AWS Summit in New York City, …
SentinelOne turns Purple AI loose to investigate threats on its own
SentinelOne Inc. today opened its Purple AI Agentic Investigations capability to all customers, adding autonomous threat investigation that runs without an analyst having to launch it. The feature is available this week as a free trial inside the company’s Singularity Platform. It …
Ex-Cisco researchers launch Tenet Security to lock down rogue AI agents
Former Cisco artificial intelligence security researchers have launched a new company to tackle a problem that barely existed a year ago: securing the autonomous AI agents enterprises are handing the keys to their most critical systems. Tenet Security Inc. today formally launched …
CYGNVS launches command center for crises caused by a company’s own AI
Cyber resilience company CYGNVS Inc. today launched its AI Incident Command Center, a platform built to help organizations manage operational crises caused by their own artificial intelligence deployments. The product extends CYGNVS’ existing out-of-band incident platform to a new category of risk: …
Bland raises $50M to automate complex, high-stakes phone calls
Voice artificial intelligence startup Bland today revealed that it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand its research, grow its engineering team and scale its platform into more regulated industries. Founded in 2023, Bland builds AI agents that handle phone …
Okta expands Google Cloud partnership to secure AI agents and the browser
Okta Inc. today expanded its partnership with Google LLC’s Google Cloud with a set of integrations that bring identity governance to artificial intelligence agents and tighten security across the Chrome browser. The deal pairs Okta’s identity layer with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise …
HP debuts AI-powered collaboration lineup at InfoComm 2026
HP Inc. used the InfoComm 2026 trade show in Las Vegas today to roll out a wave of collaboration hardware and software, tying together meeting room compute, video, audio and device management under its Workforce Experience Platform. The launches span new headsets, …
AppViewX targets ungoverned AI agents with new identity security product
AppViewX Inc. today launched Agent Identity Security, a product that discovers, governs and monitors artificial intelligence agents across enterprise environments as autonomous software increasingly operates on sensitive systems without human oversight. The product extends the AppViewX platform, built on the company’s machine …