A new report out today from the Google Threat Intelligence Group is warning that threat actors are moving beyond casual experimentation with artificial intelligence and are now beginning to integrate AI directly into operational attack workflows. The report focuses in part on abuse and targeting of Google’s own Gemini models, underscoring how generative AI systems ...

Shares in Coinbase Global Inc. rose slightly in late trading today despite the cryptocurrency exchange provider reporting earnings and revenue below expectations in its fiscal 2025 fourth quarter. The results came amid declining transaction numbers from a significant fall in the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Coinbase’s shares had already fallen in the regular ...

Shares in Applied Materials Inc. jumped more than 12% in after-hours trading today after the semiconductor equipment maker reported earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2026 first quarter. It also provided an outlook ahead of expectations thanks to increased demand for its chips driven by the ongoing artificial intelligence boom. For the quarter that ...

Identity access management company Okta Inc. today announced new features that allow organizations to discover shadow artificial intelligence agents, uncover hidden identity risks and misconfigurations of known and unknown agents and execute remediation plans. The new Agent Discovery feature in Okta’s Identity Security Posture Management offering maps agents’ potential blast radius to allow enterprises to integrate AI ...

Aurasell Inc. today launched what it claims to be the world’s first Go-To-Market Operating System, a new way to run intelligent, automated workflows on top of any common customer relationship management software already in place. GTM OS offers artificial intelligence-native execution, shared context and workflow automation to existing Salesforce Inc., HubSpot Inc. and other enterprise ...

Confidential artificial intelligence platform provider Opaque Systems Inc. today announced that it has raised $24 million in new funding on a $300 million valuation to accelerate the delivery of its platform. Founded in 2021, Opaque offers infrastructure that is designed to address enterprise concerns about data privacy, model exposure and policy enforcement in artificial intelligence workflows. The ...

Shares in Fastly Inc. surged more than 30% in after-hours trading today after the cloud-based edge infrastructure and content delivery network provider not only delivered earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2025 fourth quarter but also gave an outlook well ahead of expectations. For the quarter that ended on Dec. 31, Fastly reported adjusted ...

Nucleus Security Inc. today announced that it has raised $20 million in new funding to support product development its vulnerability and exposure management services by expanding platform capabilities and scaling up customer deployments. Founded in 2018, Nucleus focuses on exposure management rather than standalone vulnerability scanning by treating vulnerabilities, assets and contextual risk signals as interconnected ...

Non-human identity security platform company GitGuardian SAS today announced that it had raised $50 million in new funding to fuel its expansion in secrets and artificial intelligence agent security as organizations grapple with exponential growth in nonhuman identities. Founded in 2017, GitGuardian offers a security platform that is designed to detect, manage and govern secrets ...

Artificial intelligence native security analytics startup Vega Security Inc. announced today that it has raised $120 million in new funding to accelerate product development and expand its go-to-market team. Founded in 2024, Vega offers an AI-native security analytics platform that is designed to support the full security operations lifecycle without requiring centralized data ingestion. The ...