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Microsoft Corp. today detailed a new artificial intelligence-powered vulnerability discovery system that uncovered 16 previously unknown flaws in Windows networking and authentication components, including four critical remote code execution bugs patched in this month’s Patch Tuesday release. The system, code-named MDASH for …
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics lands $400M to push AI robots onto factory floors
Mind Robotics Inc., an industrial robotics startup founded by Rivian Automotive Inc. Chief Executive RJ Scaringe, said today it has raised $400 million in new funding to put more of its artificial intelligence-powered robots onto factory floors. The company is building robots …
Blumira launches Kindling pilot, an agentic SIEM investigation engine that cuts alert volume up to 50x
Security operations platform startup Blumira Inc. today launched the pilot of Kindling, an agentic security information and event management investigation engine that the company says can reduce alert volume for security teams by 30 to 50 times. Pitched at small and midmarket security operations …
Cofense adds AI-driven campaign detection to its phishing defense platform
Phishing defense company Cofense Inc. today unveiled new artificial intelligence-driven detection and automation features for its Phishing Defense Platform aimed at catching coordinated polymorphic phishing campaigns that slip past traditional filters and AI-only tools. The company says the new features shift away from one-email-at-a-time …
JupiterOne targets AI sprawl with new attack surface and vulnerability tools
Artificial intelligence risk management platform provider JupiterOne Inc. today announced the launch of two new offerings aimed at helping security teams get a handle on risk created by the sprawl of AI systems across enterprise environments. The company pitches the two products, …
Idira launches as Palo Alto Networks extends CyberArk tech to machine and agentic identities
Palo Alto Networks Inc. today launched Idira, a new identity security platform designed to manage human, machine and artificial intelligence agent identities across the enterprise under a single privileged access management framework. Idira incorporates technology from CyberArk Software Ltd., the privileged access …
Agentic SOC startup Exaforce closes $125M round at reported $725M valuation
Agentic security operations startup Exaforce Inc. today announced that it has raised $125 million in new funding to scale up its AI-driven security operations platform and expand its real-time threat reasoning capabilities. Though not confirmed directly by Exaforce, TechCrunch reports that the round was …
New Signadot skill lets Claude Code, Codex and Cursor validate changes in live Kubernetes environments
Microservices testing company Signadot Inc. today launched /signadot-validate, a new skill that lets coding agents such as Anthropic PBC’s Claude Code, OpenAI Group PBC’s Codex and Cursor validate their own changes against production-like Kubernetes environments before handing code back to developers. The …
Manifold scores 7,700 MCP servers in Manifest expansion aimed at agent security teams
Artificial intelligence detection and response platform startup Manifold Security Inc. today announced an expansion of its Manifest supply chain intelligence tool to cover Model Context Protocol servers, adding scored entries for more than 7,700 servers pulled from the official MCP Registry. The expansion brings …
AI security startup Grego AI debuts, claims record $250,000 bounty for AI-found exploit
Artificial intelligence cybersecurity startup Grego AI formally launched today with a claimed method of using existing AI models to find critical software vulnerabilities that human auditors and other automated tools routinely miss. Founded in 2024, the company calls its approach Deep Invariant …