Contract intelligence platform startup Infinity Loop Inc. announced today that it has raised $5 million in new funding to accelerate go-to-market expansion to meet enterprise demand. Founded in 2021 by procurement consultants and artificial intelligence experts Nithin Mummaneni and Kevin Liang, Infinity Loop was designed to replace the traditional reliance on manual audits and expensive ...

Archestra Inc., a startup providing a platform for artificial intelligence agents and Model Context Protocol servers, today announced that it has raised $3.3 million in new funding to develop its open-source security-first platform for safely deploying AI agents and MCP servers in enterprise environments. Archestra was founded by serial founders Matvey Kukuy and Ildar Iskhakov ...

Artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity AI Inc. is reported to be seeking to raise new funding on a $20 billion valuation, a month after the company last raised $100 million on an $18 billion valuation. Business Insider, referencing an email sent to prospective investors and a source with knowledge of the raise, reports that there ...

Apple Inc. is reportedly planning to enter the home robotics market as part of plans to introduce a range of new devices in the coming years as the once-great innovator continues to fall behind in areas such as artificial intelligence. Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, referencing people with knowledge of the matter, reports that a tabletop ...

Cybersecurity firm SonicWall Inc. today launched new firewalls as part of its Generation 8 portfolio, positioning the company as a go-to platform for managed service providers and managed security service providers. The new firewalls are part of the SonicWall’s Generation 8 refresh and integrated approach to deliver outcomes, not just infrastructure. The company says its ...

A new report today from code quality testing startup SonarSource SA is warning that while the latest large language models may be getting better at passing coding benchmarks, at the same time they are introducing more severe bugs and security vulnerabilities. The study examined more than 4,400 Java programming tasks completed by Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and ...

Identity proofing and passwordless authentication company 1Kosmos Inc. announced today that it had raised $57 million in new funding for product innovation, expansion of global sales and deeper integrations with leading identity and security platforms. Founded in 2018, 1Kosmos offers identity security that fuses biometric identity proofing with passwordless multifactor authentication built on blockchain technology ...

Web data infrastructure company Bright Data Ltd. today announced the launch of a free version of The Web MCP by Bright Data, an infrastructure layer that allows artificial intelligence agents to interact with the live web without getting blocked. The Web MCP offers an interface between autonomous AI agents and the open web, allowing for ...

Security researchers have revealed that OpenAI’s recently released GPT-5 model can be jailbroken using a multi-turn manipulation technique that blends the “Echo Chamber” method with narrative storytelling. Jailbreaking a GPT model is a way of manipulating prompts or conversation flows to bypass built-in safety and content restrictions. The methodology involves crafting inputs over multiple turns ...

A critical vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server remains unpatched on nearly 30,000 systems worldwide, raising concerns about potential exploitation in hybrid cloud environments. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-53786, affects Exchange 2016, Exchange 2019 and Exchange Server Subscription Edition in hybrid configurations with Exchange Online. The vulnerability allows attackers with administrator access to an on-premises server ...