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Vectra AI launches Vectra AI Pro to feed AI agents better attack signals
Threat detection company Vectra AI Inc. today launched Vectra AI Pro, a product built to give the artificial intelligence agents now working inside security operations centers a more reliable read on attacker behavior. Security teams have spent the past year bolting AI into their workflows to keep pace with attacks running at machine speed. Agents ...
Open Secure AI Alliance proposes SAFE guidelines as membership tops 120
The Open Secure AI Alliance today proposed a set of guidelines for reporting cybersecurity incidents involving artificial intelligence agents, one week after the group was formed. The proposal is called Shared AI Findings Exchange, or SAFE, and was published as a request for comments by the Linux Foundation. Nvidia Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., CrowdStrike Holdings ...
SpaceX stock falls 8% as first earnings beat is overshadowed by $18B capex
Shares in Space Exploration Technologies Corp. fell more than 8% in late trading today after the newly public company beat Wall Street on revenue and earnings in its second quarter and disclosed capital spending billions of dollars above what analysts had modeled. It was SpaceX’s first quarterly report since its June initial public offering, the ...
Oligo Security raises $60M as AI speeds up exploit development
Runtime security startup Oligo Security Ltd. said today that it had raised $60 million in new funding to accelerate product innovation and expand global go-to-market operations. Oligo’s software sits alongside applications in production. A sensor built on eBPF, the Linux kernel feature, tracks which library functions a workload actually calls. Most of the vulnerabilities a scanner flags ...
Rubrik unveils Agent Identity to govern AI agents one tool call at a time
Rubrik Inc. today unveiled Rubrik Agent Identity, a service that governs what artificial intelligence agents are allowed to do by granting access one tool call at a time. The company announced the service at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. The service is an expansion of Rubrik Agent Cloud, the agent governance platform the ...
Ethyca launches Astralis to govern enterprise AI agents in real time
Data privacy engineering company Ethyca Inc. today launched Astralis, a platform that governs how enterprise artificial intelligence models and agents use company data in real time. The company is pitching the product as an answer to a widening gap between how fast enterprises are deploying AI agents and how well their compliance teams can keep ...
ServiceNow debuts six autonomous security products built on Armis and Veza
ServiceNow Inc. today unveiled six security products and a group of artificial intelligence agents it says can carry vulnerability and incident work through to closure without an analyst driving each step. The launch is ServiceNow’s biggest security push since it closed two large acquisitions. Its $7.75 billion purchase of connected device security company Armis Inc. ...
ArmorCode targets runaway AI costs with four new remediation agents
Exposure management startup ArmorCode Inc. today used Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas to detail an expansion of its agentic artificial intelligence platform, adding four planned agents and three new sources of context aimed at narrowing what security teams remediate and capping what they spend doing it. The additions extend the company’s Context Risk ...
Palantir shares jump 12% as revenue nearly doubles and guidance climbs again
Shares in Palantir Technologies Inc. surged more than 12% in late trading today after the big data analytics company crushed second-quarter expectations and raised its full-year guidance for the third consecutive quarter. For its fiscal 2026 second quarter that ended on June 30, Palantir reported adjusted earnings per share of 41 cents, up from 16 ...
Horizon3.ai raises $250M at $2B-plus valuation for autonomous pentesting
Autonomous security solutions startup Horizon3.ai Inc. today announced it has raised $250 million in a Series E round on a valuation of more than $2 billion to build out its sales operation and expand into Australia and Singapore. Horizon3.ai closed its Series D in June 2025 at a valuation of $650 million. Horizon3.ai’s NodeZero platform attacks its ...









