Space Exploration Technologies Corp. showed investors and other stakeholders an early prototype of a handheld artificial intelligence device ahead of its planned initial public offering, the Wall Street Journal reported, a claim Chief Executive Elon Musk quickly rejected as “utterly false.” The device is designed as a consumer product slimmer than an iPhone, with a ...

Privacy-focused artificial intelligence company Venice.ai Inc. today revealed that it has raised $65 million in new funding that values the startup at $1 billion. Venice pitches itself as a private and unrestricted alternative to mainstream chatbots such as ChatGPT. It was founded in 2024 by Erik Voorhees, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind the ShapeShift exchange, and Jesse ...

Security researchers at Armadin Inc. today detailed an attack chain that runs arbitrary commands as root inside the sandbox behind Anthropic PBC’s Claude Cowork, escaping the isolation layer, with a second flaw stripping the network restrictions meant to contain it. Anthropic, however, does not consider it a security issue. Armadin reported the chain on March ...

Behavior intelligence company Exabeam Inc. today expanded its security operations platform with new capabilities for detecting and investigating artificial intelligence agents, doubling its AI-focused detection coverage to 90 and adding monitoring support for Anthropic PBC’s Claude. The update builds on a year of agent-security releases from the company and targets a growing blind spot for ...

Apple enterprise management firm Jamf Holding Corp. today launched Beacon by Jamf Threat Labs, a premium threat hunting service that puts the company’s research and detection engineers directly inside customer environments to hunt for attacks targeting Apple’s macOS. Now generally available, Beacon is aimed at a gap Jamf said many security teams face as their ...

A consortium of more than 140 financial, payments and technology companies, including Visa Inc., Stripe Inc. and BlackRock Inc., is backing a new stablecoin called Open USD, taking direct aim at the market leaders Tether and Circle Internet Group Inc. The token, also known as OUSD, was unveiled by Open Standard LLC, an independent company ...

Belgian cybersecurity company Aikido Security NV today announced that it has acquired Root.io Inc., a company that offers patching for vulnerable open-source software at the exact versions organizations are already running. Founded in 2020 as Slim.AI Inc., the startup offered a popular open-source container tool called Slim Toolkit. It rebranded last year as its technology ...

Pie Tech Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to provide growth tools for small businesses, today officially launched with an announcement that it has raised $19.5 million in new funding to expand its platform and team. The company used the announcement to launch Front Desk, an AI service that picks up the phone for small ...

Perforce Software Inc. today expanded its Perforce Intelligence lineup with an agentic gateway for managing artificial intelligence agents, an autonomous testing platform driven by natural language and a unified compliance tool that turns written security policies into continuous enforcement. The DevOps company is pitching the releases at enterprises and regulated industries trying to move AI ...

Agentic ecosystem security startup Vorlon Inc. today launched Guardian, a real-time enforcement gateway that aims to block risky actions by artificial intelligence agents before a transaction completes rather than flagging them after the fact. The product targets a gap Vorlon argues most agent security tools leave open. AI agents do not log in. They authenticate ...