OpenMatter Network Inc. today launched a platform it says lets organizations collaborate, run sensitive workloads and deploy artificial intelligence agents across computing environments they do not fully control, using cryptography to prove what happens rather than trusting that it happened. The Melbourne, Florida-based startup is pitching the product as a “verifiable trust layer” built on ...

Protective DNS and content filtering company DNSFilter Inc. today launched an expanded partner program for managed service providers, restructuring its channel into three tiers as new company research found most MSPs are struggling to keep pace with the security their clients need. The program replaces a flatter structure with three levels that scale support to ...

Agentic security company Straiker Inc. today revealed that it has raised $64 million in new funding to expand a platform built that secures the artificial intelligence agents now spreading across enterprise systems. The Mountain View, California-based company sells agentic security, software that discovers AI agents running inside an organization, tests them for weaknesses ahead of ...

Application observability startup groundcover Ltd. today announced a major expansion of Agent Mode that lets artificial intelligence agents act on a team’s observability data across the development tools they already use. The update allows engineers to direct agents to recommend code, open pull requests and manage tasks inside applications such as Slack, Linear and GitHub. ...

Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence consulting firm Arcova today launched an end-to-end data center development offering that brings engineering, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance and grid-planning coordination under one team. The offering is designed to carry data center programs from site selection through day-two operations. Arcova says it cuts the average development timeline by 18 months and eliminates ...

Artificial intelligence cloud operator CoreWeave Inc. today launched ARIA, an AI research agent built into the Weights & Biases platform. The agent reads experiment data and surfaces insights researchers might miss, then recommends ways to improve their models and agents. Short for AI Research and Iteration Agent, ARIA can work through thousands of experiment runs and ...

OpenAI Group PBC will roll out its next model, GPT-5.6, to a small group of partners rather than the public at the request of the Trump administration, the latest sign that Washington now wants to review frontier artificial intelligence models before they ship widely. The plan was disclosed by Chief Executive Sam Altman during a ...

Threat hunting startup Nebulock Inc. revealed today that it has raised $25 million in new funding to push its autonomous hunting platform into broader “hunt-first” security analytics. Founded in 2023, Nebulock offers autonomous, vendor-agnostic threat hunts driven by artificial intelligence. Those hunts span endpoint, identity, cloud, network and software-as-a-service telemetry. Its argument is simple: Most security tooling ...

A major overhaul of the Model Context Protocol due next month removes several longstanding protocol-level security risks but hands developers a fresh set of attack surfaces to defend, according to research published today by Akamai Technologies Inc. The analysis examines the MCP 2026-07-28 specification, the biggest architectural change to the standard since Anthropic PBC created ...

Secure software supply chain solution provider Chainguard Inc. today expanded its Chainguard Repository product with malware scanning, policy enforcement and visibility features that now cover Java packages, Python packages and container images. The update extends protections that previously applied only to JavaScript packages. Chainguard pitches the move as a way for security and platform teams ...