Lovable Labs Inc. said today it has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation. The Swedish artificial intelligence coding startup was worth $6.6 billion in December. The company sells a vibe coding service. Users describe what they want in plain language and the platform builds it. Hosting is included. Chief ...

Marketing intelligence company Ahrefs Pte. Ltd. today launched Letaido, an agent-powered marketing workspace built to take over the recurring research, reporting and monitoring work that fills up a marketing team’s week. In most marketing departments, generative artificial intelligence is still something people use on their own. A writer drafts with it. An analyst pulls numbers. ...

Huntress Labs Inc. said today that an Akira ransomware affiliate rebooted a victim’s Windows server into Safe Mode to knock its endpoint security offline — and it worked. The same reboot also broke the ransomware. Safe Mode loads only core Windows drivers and services. Third-party security products sit outside that minimal set by design. That ...

Santa Clara-based technology services firm Apexon Inc. today expanded AgentRise, its agentic artificial intelligence platform, with three new components. The additions are named AgentRise Polaris, AgentRise Lodestone and AgentRise Harness. Each maps to one of three disciplines Apexon has built its client work around, called Domain & Strategy, Cognitive Architecture and Harness Engineering. Polaris covers ...

Google LLC’s Gemini artificial intelligence app has passed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th product in the company’s history to reach that mark. The company announced the milestone today in a blog post from Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs, Gemini and AI Studio. Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in a ...

Runtime intelligence startup FriskAI Inc. launched today with $3.6 million in pre-seed funding to give enterprises a record of what their artificial intelligence agents actually do once they go into production. FriskAI is aiming at a problem that comes with agents. Given different inputs, a different tool set or a shifting objective, the same agent ...

Cloudflare Inc. reported today that distributed denial-of-service attacks above 1 terabit per second grew sixfold between the first and second quarters of 2026, to 805 from 130. That took the half-year total to 935 attacks over 1 Tbps, against 219 in the fourth quarter of last year. Cloudflare said in the report that attackers now ...

Security operations platform startup Blumira Inc. today launched Hearth, a vendor-agnostic artificial intelligence command center that lets security teams investigate and act across their existing tools from a single interface. The product is available to organizations that do not use Blumira and is aimed at teams running a patchwork of identity, firewall, endpoint and cloud ...

DEF CON Franklin and the National Rural Water Association have launched the Water Watch Center, a program that delivers managed cybersecurity services to small water utilities that have no security staff of their own. The launch came on Aug. 7 at the DEF CON hacker conference in Las Vegas. More than 30 Minnesota water systems ...

Defensive cybersecurity startup Corma Labs Ltd. today announced it has raised $60 million in seed funding to build a foundation model purpose-built for security defense. Founded in 2025, Corma runs offices in Tel Aviv and San Francisco and describes itself as a frontier artificial intelligence lab working only on the defensive side of security. Its ...