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Ripple acquires Hidden Road in $1.25B deal to expand institutional crypto services
Blockchain technology company Ripple Labs Inc. announced today that it has acquired multi-asset prime brokerage firm Hidden Road Inc. for $1.25 billion. Founded in 2018, Hidden Road is a prime brokerage firm specializing in over-the-counter services for digital assets. The company offers a range of services, including clearing, prime brokerage and financing across various asset classes, such ...
CodeSecure and FOSSA partner to enhance visibility into open source and binary code
Application security testing company CodeSecure Inc. today announced a new strategic partnership with open-source compliance and security platform provider FOSSA Inc. and introduced a product integration that allows organizations to eliminate security blind spots associated with third-party and open-source code. The partnership sees CodeSecure’s CodeSentry Binary Composition Analysis capabilities integrated into FOSSA’s software supply chain ...
New Workspace AI tools from Google focus on workflow automation and content creation
Google LLC today announced new artificial intelligence enhancements in Google Workspace that expand its Gemini-powered productivity tools to help organizations automate complex workflows, improve content creation and better analyze data. Leading the list of announcements from the annual Google Cloud Next developer conference in Las Vegas is Google Workspace Flows, a new agentic AI tool ...
CrowdStrike expands Google Cloud partnership to secure AI development at scale
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced a major expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud, aimed at delivering comprehensive, end-to-end security for artificial intelligence innovation using the CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security platform. The expanded partnership seeks to address the growing level of cloud intrusions and the rapid adoption of AI that is introducing new challenges to ...
Okta enhances Auth0 and core platform with expanded identity security features
Identity access management company Okta Inc. today announced new platform innovations that extend the company’s security capabilities across both human and nonhuman identities. The updates span the company’s Auth0 platform and the broader Okta identity fabric. They’re aimed at equipping developers and enterprises with the tools needed to build secure generative artificial intelligence applications while addressing growing ...
Google launches Unified Security platform and unveils Gemini agents for threat detection
Google LLC today announced a wave of artificial intelligence-driven capabilities coming to enterprise security, including a new service called Google Unified Security, new security agents and innovations. Leading the announcements from the Google Cloud Next conference this week in Las Vegas is the introduction of Google Unified Security, a new AI-powered platform that consolidates the ...
Portnox raises $37.5M to scale cloud-native zero-trust access control
Network security startup Portnox revealed today that it has raised $37.5 million in new funding to accelerate product innovation, expand market reach, and empower resource-constrained security teams with accessible, enterprise-grade zero-trust security. Portnox specializes in cloud-native zero-trust access control solutions designed to help organizations secure their networks, applications and infrastructure. The company’s platform eliminates the ...
Hawk secures $56 million to expand financial crime detection platform
Artificial intelligence-powered anti-money laundering and fraud prevention solutions company Hawk AI GmbH announced today that it has raised $56 million in new funding to support continued product innovation and global expansion, particularly into the U.S. market. Founded in 2018 by fintech veterans Tobias Schweiger and Wolfgang Berner, Hawk has as its mission to assist financial ...
Vectara launches open-source framework to evaluate enterprise RAG systems
Artificial intelligence agent and assistant platform provider Vectara Inc. today announced the launch of Open RAG Eval, an open-source evaluation framework for retrieval-augmented generation. RAG is a technique that enhances AI responses by retrieving relevant external data to inform its output. The approach improves accuracy and reduces hallucinations by grounding responses in real-time, trusted information. ...
Fortanix introduces Armet AI for compliant, secure enterprise generative AI deployment
Multicloud security firm Fortanix Inc. today announced the public preview of Fortanix Armet AI, a new service that allows enterprises to create secure and compliant custom generative artificial intelligence applications to mitigate data exposure risk. Armet AI has been designed to assist organizations that are seeking to take advantage of generative AI technology but don’t view off-the-shelf ...