Freshworks Inc. today unveiled an expanded set of agentic capabilities in its Freshservice information technology service management platform led by a new no-code Freddy AI Agent Studio that lets enterprises build, customize, or deploy prebuilt artificial intelligence agents across service workflows. The announcements, made at the company’s annual Refresh conference, also includes a Model Context ...

Microsoft Corp. today detailed a new artificial intelligence-powered vulnerability discovery system that uncovered 16 previously unknown flaws in Windows networking and authentication components, including four critical remote code execution bugs patched in this month’s Patch Tuesday release. The system, code-named MDASH for multimodel agentic scanning harness, was built by Microsoft’s Autonomous Code Security team in ...

Mind Robotics Inc., an industrial robotics startup founded by Rivian Automotive Inc. Chief Executive RJ Scaringe, said today it has raised $400 million in new funding to put more of its artificial intelligence-powered robots onto factory floors. The company is building robots that can handle the kind of fiddly, judgment-based work on a production line ...

Security operations platform startup Blumira Inc. today launched the pilot of Kindling, an agentic security information and event management investigation engine that the company says can reduce alert volume for security teams by 30 to 50 times. Pitched at small and midmarket security operations centers and the managed service providers that support them, Kindling sits on top ...

Phishing defense company Cofense Inc. today unveiled new artificial intelligence-driven detection and automation features for its Phishing Defense Platform aimed at catching coordinated polymorphic phishing campaigns that slip past traditional filters and AI-only tools. The company says the new features shift away from one-email-at-a-time responses toward action at the campaign level. The release pairs campaign-aware detection with ...

Artificial intelligence risk management platform provider JupiterOne Inc. today announced the launch of two new offerings aimed at helping security teams get a handle on risk created by the sprawl of AI systems across enterprise environments. The company pitches the two products, AI Attack Surface Management and Unified Vulnerability Management, as a way to show ...

Palo Alto Networks Inc. today launched Idira, a new identity security platform designed to manage human, machine and artificial intelligence agent identities across the enterprise under a single privileged access management framework. Idira incorporates technology from CyberArk Software Ltd., the privileged access management specialist Palo Alto Networks acquired in February for $25 billion, and extends those ...

Agentic security operations startup Exaforce Inc. today announced that it has raised $125 million in new funding to scale up its AI-driven security operations platform and expand its real-time threat reasoning capabilities. Though not confirmed directly by Exaforce, TechCrunch reports that the round was raised at a valuation of $725 million. Founded in 2023, Exaforce sells what ...

Microservices testing company Signadot Inc. today launched /signadot-validate, a new skill that lets coding agents such as Anthropic PBC’s Claude Code, OpenAI Group PBC’s Codex and Cursor validate their own changes against production-like Kubernetes environments before handing code back to developers. The skill is designed to close what Signadot calls the “agent loop” in cloud-native ...

Artificial intelligence detection and response platform startup Manifold Security Inc. today announced an expansion of its Manifest supply chain intelligence tool to cover Model Context Protocol servers, adding scored entries for more than 7,700 servers pulled from the official MCP Registry. The expansion brings MCP servers into the same searchable index Manifold already maintains for agent skills ...