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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...