Cloudflare Inc. and newsletter platform beehiiv Inc. today launched an integration that hands independent publishers a single toggle to decide whether artificial intelligence crawlers can reach their work. The integration bakes Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control into the beehiiv dashboard. Writers face a choice. They can open their archives to AI search engines and agents and ...

The Linux Foundation said today it plans to launch the Agent Name Service, an open standard that gives artificial intelligence agents trusted identities through the same Domain Name System that already runs the internet. Using ANS, a system or a person can confirm what organization an agent belongs to and what it has permission to ...

Partly Group Ltd., a New Zealand startup using artificial intelligence to change up the automotive parts business, announced today that it has raised $50 million new funding at a $500 million valuation. It’s also opening its first U.S. operation, betting that the country’s collision repair sector is ready to buy software it has so far ...

Container image startup Minimus Inc. today announced that it’s removing the registration wall on its entire catalog of secure container images, making the full library free to any developer. The company tied the decision to artificial intelligence tools that are now finding software vulnerabilities faster than teams can patch them. Minimus Community Edition is the ...

Industrial control system cybersecurity company Dragos Inc. today launched EmberAI, an artificial intelligence assistant built specifically for operational technology environments that aims to put the company’s threat intelligence in the hands of analysts at any experience level. EmberAI runs on the Dragos Intelligence Fabric, which the company calls the world’s largest OT cybersecurity data set ...

OpenAI Group PBC today expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity program with a new open-source patching initiative called Patch the Planet, an updated Codex Security plugin, a partner program and the full release of its most capable defensive artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.5-Cyber. The push marks a shift in how OpenAI talks about AI and security. The company ...

Swiss artificial intelligence startup Prem SA is raising $100 million in Series A funding at a valuation of at least $500 million, Bloomberg reported today. The round is expected to close in the third quarter. Prem sells software for running AI models on a company’s own infrastructure, not a cloud provider’s. Customers fine-tune models, analyze ...

General Intuition PBC is in talks to raise about $300 million at a valuation of just over $2 billion, TechCrunch reported today, citing people familiar with the talks. The New York-based startup uses video game footage to train artificial intelligence agents to navigate physical space. The price tag is a steep markup. General Intuition launched ...

Cloudflare Inc. mitigated 38.5 billion cyberattacks against civil society organizations over the past year, the company said in a report out today, and most of it was one kind of attack: Distributed denial-of-service floods made up 81.7% of the malicious traffic. The data comes from Project Galileo, which Cloudflare started in 2014 to give independent ...

BlackFog Inc. today launched ADX Vision for macOS, extending its shadow artificial intelligence detection and prevention platform to Apple Inc. endpoints so security teams can apply one data-loss policy across Windows and Mac fleets. The anti-data exfiltration company claims the release closes a gap that has left a large share of corporate AI use unmonitored. ...