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 management specialist Palo Alto Networks acquired in February for $25 billion, and extends those ...

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 raised at a valuation of $725 million. Founded in 2023, Exaforce sells what ...

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 skill is designed to close what Signadot calls the “agent loop” in cloud-native ...

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 MCP servers into the same searchable index Manifold already maintains for agent skills ...

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 Analysis. The tool scans a full codebase and works out how each module ...

Human risk security startup Frame Security Ltd. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $50 million in funding to build out its platform, which uses artificial intelligence to harden employees against social engineering and deepfake attacks. Frame pitches its platform as a replacement for quarterly slide decks and canned phishing simulations that still ...

Artificial intelligence customer service platform provider Quiq Inc. today launched a new voice product and refreshed its brand, betting that customer experience teams are ready to move beyond isolated pilots to scaled production deployments. The new voice capability extends Quiq’s platform into real-time spoken conversations to allow customers to move between voice and messaging channels ...

Criminal hackers have used artificial intelligence to develop a working zero-day exploit, the first confirmed case of its kind, according to a report released today by Google LLC’s Google Threat Intelligence Group. The GTIG AI Threat Tracker report details how a criminal group used AI to build a Python-based exploit targeting a two-factor authentication bypass ...

Shares in Akamai Technologies Inc. surged more than 26% in late trading today after the cybersecurity and cloud computing company reported in-line first-quarter results and disclosed a $1.8 billion, seven-year commitment from a leading U.S.-based frontier model provider for its cloud infrastructure services. For its fiscal 2026 first quarter that ended on March 31, Akamai ...

Shares of Block Inc. rose more than 8% in late trading today after the financial services company beat earnings expectations, accelerated gross profit growth and raised its full-year outlook on the back of a deepening artificial intelligence push inside the business. For its fiscal 2026 first quarter that ended on March 31, Block reported adjusted ...