Machine-to-machine communications startup Corsha Inc. announced today that it has raised $18 million in new funding to expand go-to-market efforts, launch Corsha Labs and enhance its machine identity platform with artificial intelligence-driven behavioral and adaptive access controls for securing machine-to-machine communication. Founded in 2017, Corsha offers solutions designed to integrate seamlessly into various environments, including ...

San Francisco-based venture capital firm SignalFire Ventures today announced that it has raised more than $1 billion in new capital to bring its total assets under management to $3 billion. Founded in 2013 by Chris Farmer and Ilya Kirnos, SignalFire is best known as an early investor in artificial intelligence startups but also as a ...

Identity platform startup Stytch Inc. today unveiled Remote MCP Authorization, a new service created in partnership with Cloudflare Inc. that allows developers to add authorization to Remote MCP Servers built on Cloudflare Workers and any other frameworks supporting MCP Servers. Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is a communications standard developed by Anthropic PBC that allows artificial intelligence ...

A new report released today by phishing protection company SlashNext Inc. details the emergence of a next-generation malicious artificial intelligence platform called Xanthorox AI, which is being promoted in underground cybercrime forums as a modular, self-hosted tool for automated hacking operations. Malicious AIs are not new, with several tools already in circulation, with models such as WormGPT, FraudGPT ...

A new paper from Google DeepMind Technologies Ltd., the artificial intelligence research laboratory that is part of Alphabet Inc., this week laid out a comprehensive framework for navigating the risks and responsibilities of developing artificial general intelligence, marking one of the clearest commitments yet from the company on AGI safety. AGIs are theoretical AI systems that ...

Microsoft Corp. has reportedly pulled back on multiple planned data center projects three months after it announced plans to spend $80 billion to build artificial intelligence data centers through the current fiscal year. Bloomberg, referencing people familiar with the situation, claims that Microsoft had recently halted talks for, or delayed development of, sites in Australia, ...

Oracle Corp. has reportedly told some customers that a hacker broke into computer systems and stole old client login credentials. The admission comes after the company publicly denied any breach had taken place following a hacker offering allegedly stolen Oracle data on BreachForums. Bloomberg, referencing two people familiar with the matter, claims that Oracle staff ...

A new report out today from cybersecurity training services company Hoxhunt Ltd. reveals that artificial intelligence-powered phishing agents have surpassed elite human red teams in crafting effective phishing attacks, a milestone that arguably reshapes the cybersecurity threat landscape. The report describes AI as having reached its “Skynet moment for social engineering,” a reference to “The Terminator” movie franchise, ...

Enterprise artificial intelligence platform startup Unframe Inc. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $50 million in funding to support global expansion and sales growth while enhancing its platform by accelerating research and development. Unframe was founded by Chief Executive Shay Levi, a co-founder of application programming security startup Noname Security Inc., which ...

New reports out today from Crunchbase Inc. and PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor reveal that global venture capital rebounded sharply in the first quarter of 2025, posting its strongest performance since mid-2022. However, both datasets point to a growing division in the startup ecosystem where a small set of companies and sectors, particularly artificial intelligence, are capturing ...