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Alation debuts Chat with Your Data to simplify enterprise access to structured insights
Data intelligence company Alation Inc. today announced the launch of Alation Chat with Your Data, a new offering aimed at allowing anyone in the enterprise to get fast, accurate numbers from structured data by asking questions in plain English. The new solution is designed to make trusted insights accessible to all employees, without the need for analytics ...
Fastly report finds AI bots are reshaping the balance of web traffic
A new report out today from edge cloud platform provider Fastly Inc. highlights how the explosive growth of artificial intelligence bots is reshaping web traffic, content access and infrastructure risks. The company’s Q2 2025 Threat Insights Report focuses exclusively on AI bots, providing data on the scale of automated traffic used for training and powering large ...
Druva introduces AI agents to streamline workload recovery and incident response
Data security provider Druva Inc. today announced a major expansion of DruAI, the company’s suite of artificial intelligence capabilities for customers, to help organizations proactively secure, recover and manage their data. DruAI, built with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore on Amazon Web Services Inc., now includes AI agents that can interpret user intent, analyze data and take meaningful action. ...
BrowserStack introduces Testing Toolkit Chrome extension to unify QA workflows
Web and mobile testing company BrowserStack Inc. today announced the launch of Testing Toolkit, a new Google Chrome extension that brings more than 10 essential manual testing tools into one solution. The new extension seeks to address the issue wherein manual web testing has become increasingly fragmented. BrowserStack argues that today, quality assurance teams are forced to ...
Ping Identity expands platform with integrated privileged access management
Identity management provider Ping Identity Corp. today announced new just-in-time privileged access capabilities within the Ping Identity Platform that provide capabilities across all three categories of identity: access management, identity governance and administration, and privileged access management. The new access capabilities come with centralized identity control in a single platform to give customers a more ...
Sentient launches The GRID to connect and make money from open AI agents
Open-source artificial intelligence development platform provider Sentient Foundation today announced the launch of The GRID, a “network of intelligence” that is designed to let developers monetize and coordinate artificial intelligence agents across real-world environments. The GRID varies from proprietary marketplaces from the likes of OpenAI and Amazon Web Services Inc. by being developer-led, open to all and designed ...
AI coding assistant startup Cognition reportedly raises nearly $500M on $9.8B valuation
Artificial intelligence coding assistant startup Cognition AI Inc. has reportedly raised nearly $500 million in funding on a $9.8 billion valuation, a month after it entered an agreement to acquire Windsurf Inc. Though the company hasn’t as yet confirmed the raise, The Wall Street Journal reported today that earlier this week, Cognition filed a document with ...
Sentry launches MCP Server Monitoring to give developers deeper operational insight
Application performance monitoring company Sentry Inc. today announced the launch of MCP Server Monitoring, a new service that gives anyone building on top of the Model Context Protocol a clearer view into what is working and not working behind the scenes. MCP, introduced by Anthropic PBC last November, has seen rapid adoption as companies move to make ...
Palo Alto Networks adds quantum readiness and AI-driven protections in PAN-OS 12.1 Orion
Palo Alto Networks Inc. today announced new security capabilities that are aimed at preparing enterprises for the looming quantum computing era while bolstering defenses for increasingly complex multi-cloud and artificial intelligence environments. The new offerings, part of the PAN-OS 12.1 “Orion” release, are designed to give organizations visibility into cryptographic risks, automate remediation and deliver ...
Abnormal finds law enforcement email accounts sold for as little as $40 on dark web
A new report out today from human behavior security company Abnormal AI Inc. details how cybercriminals are increasingly selling active law enforcement and government email accounts on dark web marketplaces, turning institutional trust into a low-cost commodity. According to the report, cybercriminals are selling law enforcement and government email accounts for as little as $40 a piece. Access ...









