Employee management startup Warp today said it has raised $60 million in new funding to expand a platform that uses artificial intelligence to run payroll and other back-office work with little staff involved. The New York-based company pitches itself as an AI-native alternative to legacy human capital management software, the category long dominated by Workday ...

Incident response company BreachRx Inc. today launched the Rex Platform, an agentic artificial intelligence incident command center built for a future in which AI-accelerated attacks set off several breaches at once. The platform grows out of Rex AI, the generative AI engine BreachRx put out in March. What was an assistant is now pitched as ...

Identity verification company Incode Technologies Inc. today announced that it has acquired Identiq Protocol Ltd., an Israeli startup that builds cryptographic tools letting companies share fraud signals without sharing the underlying customer data. Incode is treating the deal as the centerpiece of a $100 million bet on privacy-preserving identity infrastructure. It did not disclose what ...

Superhuman Inc., the company formerly known as Grammarly, said today it has agreed to acquire GPTZero Inc., the startup whose detection tools tell teachers, editors and hiring managers when a piece of writing came from a machine. The acquisition price was not disclosed. The acquisition is arguably ironic. Grammarly spent years building tools that help ...

Voice artificial intelligence testing startup Coval Inc. revealed today that it has raised $28 million in new funding to expand its platform as more enterprises put voice agents into production. Founded in 2024, Coval offers software that runs simulations, tracks live performance and labels data for AI voice and chat agents. Companies use it to ...

Voice artificial intelligence company Modulate Inc. today launched a tool that flags AI-generated music straight from the audio. The product, an application programming interface called AI Music Detection, scores how likely a clip is to contain AI vocals or AI instrumentals and gives a verdict on the whole file. Streaming services, distributors and rights holders ...

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today said it has signed a multiyear partnership with Microsoft Corp. that will see its data security and cyber recovery technology offered as a native service inside the Azure cloud platform. Under the deal, Azure customers can find, provision and plug in Commvault’s resilience tools straight from Azure, with ...

Cybersecurity company Snyk Ltd. today launched Evo Agentic Development Security, a new layer of its artificial intelligence security platform built to police the autonomous coding agents that increasingly build enterprise software without much human oversight. The product, which Snyk shortens to Evo ADS, aims to govern three things at once: the tools an agent pulls in, the ...

Identity and access management company Okta Inc. today said more than 25 software makers have signed on to its Cross App Access framework, which routes the connections artificial intelligence agents make to enterprise applications through a company’s identity controls. The early adopters include Asana Inc., Atlassian Corp., Cloudflare Inc., Datadog Inc., Salesforce Inc.’s Slack, Zoom ...

Security intelligence and management solutions company Exabeam Inc. today introduced Agent Behavior Verification, a pre-deployment security discipline for artificial intelligence agents, and released Praxen, an open-source tool that tests an agent against the job it was hired to do before it ever goes live. Praxen puts the idea into practice. The company pitches ABV as a pre-deployment ...