Hexaware Technologies Ltd. today introduced the Zero Friction Enterprise, a delivery framework that folds the information technology services company’s modernization, cybersecurity, engineering, operations, quality and enterprise software practices into a single offering aimed at the drag that builds up inside large technology estates. The argument behind it is one of accumulation. Aging code, security exposure, ...

OpenRouter Inc., which sells developers a single door into more than 400 artificial intelligence models, has agreed to terms to sell itself to Stripe Inc. for north of $7 billion, according to a report today from Bloomberg. The company’s pitch is that one integration outlives any single model. A customer writes to OpenRouter once, then swaps ...

Nozomi Networks Inc. and Sophos Ltd. today announced a partnership that pushes operational technology telemetry from Nozomi’s Vantage platform into Sophos Fusion, the artificial intelligence-native defense system launched in July. It’s one of the first significant third-party integrations Sophos has disclosed since Fusion launched. Sophos has said the system supports more than 500 third-party integrations. Vantage is ...

Vantage Data Centers LLC has held early talks about an initial public offering that would value the operator at roughly $100 billion, Reuters reported today, citing people familiar with the discussions. Two of those sources told Reuters a listing at that size would be the largest the data center industry has produced. The talks are ...

President Donald Trump signed a national security presidential memorandum Wednesday authorizing vetted private companies to carry out hacking operations against foreign criminal groups. The memorandum, “Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime,” tells the Homeland Security Task Force’s National Coordination Center to build the program. Executive directors from the Justice Department and Homeland Security will ...

Data resilience company Rubrik Inc. today said a month of scanning its own code with Anthropic PBC’s Mythos Preview model surfaced so many potential security issues that it rebuilt its review pipeline rather than hire reviewers. The details came in a blog post from Rubrik co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Arvind Nithrakashyap. Rubrik got access ...

Enterprise voice artificial intelligence company Regal Voice Inc. today unveiled an integration with Five9 Inc. that makes its autonomous AI voice agents available to customers of the contact center software provider. Five9 lists the agents in its AI Agent Connect program, a distribution channel for third-party AI vendors. A Five9 call event can now trigger ...

A new report from threat intelligence company Flashpoint has found that criminals now use artificial intelligence in day-to-day operations, well past the experimental stage. The 2026 Global Threat Intelligence Report: Midyear Edition covers the first six months of the year. Flashpoint’s analysts worked through 3.9 petabytes of material for it, most of it lifted from ...

Palo Alto Networks Inc. said today its Unit 42 consulting arm will put OpenAI Group PBC’s frontier cyber models to work inside customer environments, expanding a service it launched earlier this year to find the attack paths that artificial intelligence-equipped intruders are most likely to take. The expanded service, Unit 42 Frontier AI Exposure Analysis, ...

Process intelligence company Skan AI said today it raised $63 million in a Series C round to help further develop a platform that records how enterprise work actually gets done and feeds that record to artificial intelligence agents. Founded in 2019, the company offers software that sits on employee desktops, grabs screenshots and then processes ...