Cybersecurity validation startup Picus Security Inc. today launched the Picus Autonomous Exposure Validation Platform, a system that merges breach and attack simulation, autonomous penetration testing and exposure validation into a single automated loop. The platform is aimed at a question security teams struggle to answer when a critical vulnerability drops: Can this actually be exploited against ...

Autonomous security company Assail Inc. today launched Sidewinder, a rebuilt version of its Ares offensive security platform that runs on a new 31 billion-parameter model designed to audit its own findings and repair its own mistakes without human intervention. Sidewinder is a full second-generation redesign of Ares, which Assail introduced in January, with a new ...

CyberProof Inc., a co-managed security services company owned by UST Global Inc., today launched an agentic artificial intelligence service that it says can autonomously handle up to two-thirds of security investigations while leaving human analysts in control of critical decisions. The service, called CyberProof Agentic MXDR, is a form of managed extended detection and response ...

Application and network security company Radware Ltd. today expanded its Agentic AI Protection product with compliance reporting, deeper visibility into artificial intelligence agent activity, and new protection for agents that run directly on developer machines, including Anthropic PBC’s Claude Code. As enterprises hand more of their operations to AI agents, security and compliance teams are ...

Cloud security company Sysdig Inc. has documented what it says is the first ransomware operation carried out from start to finish by an autonomous artificial intelligence agent, a campaign it calls JadePuffer. Sysdig’s Threat Research Team spelled out its findings in research published last week. A large language model ran the whole intrusion. It broke ...

Google LLC has disrupted NetNut, one of the largest residential proxy networks in operation, degrading a service that had turned more than 2 million home devices worldwide into relays for other people’s internet traffic. The action was carried out in coordination with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Lumen Technologies Inc. and others. Google’s Threat ...

Sam Altman is calling for a US-led international forum to set global safety standards for artificial intelligence, arguing that no single country should be left to dominate the technology. In an op-ed published Wednesday in the Financial Times, OpenAI Group PBC’s chief executive (pictured) proposed “a US-led international forum that establishes accepted standards, provides expert ...

British data intelligence startup StirlingX Ltd. has raised $20 million in an early-stage round to accelerate product development and push into new markets. StirlingX describes itself as a data intelligence company built inside a drone maker. Its platform is designed to capture, secure, fuse, analyze and act on data pulled from complex and contested settings. ...

Startups worldwide raised a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, according to a new report out today from market intelligence company Crunchbase Inc. The figure was more than investors put into venture deals across all of last year, when the total came to $440 billion. The first half also set a funding record, ...

Physical security company Verkada Inc. has taken an investment from Nvidia Corp. and signed a technical partnership with the chipmaker, the two said today, in a deal meant to speed up the artificial intelligence running across Verkada’s 2.4 million connected devices. The size of the investment was not disclosed but comes seven months after Verkada ...