Offensive security startup Terra Security Inc. today launched Prevention, a feature that writes the firewall rules needed to block an attack its artificial intelligence agents have already proven works. Prevention is available now. Terra built it for the gap between a confirmed finding and a deployed code fix, a stretch that can run for weeks ...

Networking and security company Cato Networks Ltd. today introduced Cato Agentic Threat Prevention, a capability that uses autonomous agents to predict the route an attacker is likely to take through a customer’s network. Protections for that specific environment are then generated and enforced before the attack advances. The feature runs on Cato’s cloud-native platform, which ...

Artificial intelligence has become a target for attackers rather than only a tool they use, according to CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.’s “2026 Threat Hunting Report,” released today. The annual report draws on observations from CrowdStrike’s OverWatch threat hunting team and intelligence analysts tracking more than 290 named adversaries over the 12 months to June 30. Previous ...

OpenAI Group PBC revealed Saturday that an internal version of Astra, the model family it calls its next major release, produced new results for 10 problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science that had been open for at least a decade, and it published machine-checkable proofs alongside the claim. The company posted a 249-page manuscript ...

Okta Inc. said today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security Inc., a startup whose software hunts for attackers abusing identities across cloud accounts, software-as-a-service applications and, more recently, artificial intelligence agents. No price was announced. A person with knowledge of the deal put it at just under $200 million, nearly all ...

Shares in Coinbase Global Inc. fell more than 5% in extended trading today after the cryptocurrency exchange missed Wall Street targets on both revenue and earnings, with falling token prices and multi-year lows in volatility gutting its trading business. For its second quarter that ended on June 30, Coinbase reported an adjusted loss of 40 ...

Cloud security startup Upwind Security Inc. today unveiled AI Agent Context Scanner, which inspects the instructions, tools and connections feeding artificial intelligence agents before those agents act on them. The company also moved its AI Detection & Response service, or AI DR, into general availability. AI agents are no longer just coding assistants on employee ...

Enterprise data pipeline startup DataBahn Inc. today revealed that it has raised $40 million in new funding to accelerate development of what it calls an agentic data control plane. Founded in 2024, DataBahn sells software that sits between the systems generating enterprise telemetry and the tools that consume it. The platform ingests, normalizes and routes ...

Agentic security startup Cantina formally launched today and said it has raised $8 million in funding to automate the security work that happens after a vulnerability is found. The company was started by security researchers and engineers who spent years finding flaws in widely used software and defending against attacks on it. Its platform runs ...

Meta Platforms Inc.’s shares fell more than 8% in after-hours trading today after the social networking company beat revenue expectations for its fiscal 2026 second quarter but missed badly on earnings as costs rose 55%. For the quarter that ended on June 30, Meta reported diluted earnings per share of $6.18, down from $7.14 in ...