Operant AI Inc., a startup that offers a runtime application protection platform, today announced the launch of MCP Gateway, an expansion of its AI Gatekeeper platform that offers comprehensive security for Model Context Protocol applications. The company says its MCP Gateway is the first enterprise-grade solution to secure MCP servers and AI agents across infrastructure ...

Artificial intelligence-driven sales and marketing startup Clay Labs Inc. has reportedly raised a Series C round of funding on a $3 billion valuation, just shy of a year after the company previously raised a Series B round of $46 million on a $500 million valuation. According to TechCrunch, which first reported the news, the round was led ...

Permissions management startup AuthZed Inc. today announced new support for retrieval-augmented generation and agentic artificial intelligence systems, expanding its authorization infrastructure to address security challenges in enterprise AI. The expanded support is designed to give engineering teams the tools they need to ensure that AI systems respect permissions, prevent data leaks and maintain complete audit trails. The ...

An identity and access management failure within Google Cloud earlier today caused widespread service disruptions across a range of internet services, including portions of Cloudflare Inc., Google Workspace apps and third-party platforms reliant on Google infrastructure. The incident began late Wednesday morning PDT and was traced to a misconfiguration within Google Cloud’s IAM systems. The ...

Investors in Chime Financial Inc. had much to cheer about today after the financial services company closed its first day of trading on the Nasdaq up more than 37% after the company’s shares made their debut on the exchange at the start of trading. The company, which revealed it had filed paperwork to go public with ...

Cybersecurity compliance startup Vanta Inc. today announced the launch of Vanta AI Agent, a new agent designed to handle end-to-end workflows autonomously across a company’s entire compliance program. The new agent, powered by Vanta AI, contextually guides organizations through key tasks, accurately identifies issues and inconsistencies humans might miss and proactively takes action on their behalf, while ...

Vector database for enterprise-grade artificial intelligence applications company Zilliz Inc. today announced the release of Milvus 2.6, a new version of its open-source Milvus vector database that significantly reduces costs associated with artificial intelligence applications. The new release includes tiered hot/cold storage and advanced vector compression techniques that allow users to scale up efficiently without compromising performance. For ...

Data security platform company Veza Inc. today announced it has expanded its identity security platform with the launch of a dedicated nonhuman identity security product. The new NHI Security product and capabilities offer visibility, ownership and governance to machine identities, such as service accounts, secrets, keys and workloads, across software-as-a-service, cloud, infrastructure and on-premises environments. The new ...

Agentic artificial intelligence startup Landbase Inc. announced today that it has raised $30 million in new funding to enhance its GTM-1 Omni AI model and expand access to its VibeGTM platform for automated, AI-driven go-to-market execution. Founded in 2024, Landbase offers an agentic AI platform that fully automates business-to-business “go‑to‑market” workflows covering everything from lead ...

A new report out today from Cloudflare Inc., marking the 11th anniversary of Project Galileo, reveals a sharp increase in cyberattacks targeting civil society organizations, with application-layer distributed denial-of-service attacks overtaking traditional web exploit attempts by a wide margin. Project Galileo is a Cloudflare program that offers free cybersecurity protection to at-risk public interest organizations, such ...