Israeli runtime security startup Sweet Security Ltd. today unveiled Agentic AI Blocking, a capability that stops artificial intelligence agents mid-action in production when they do something they were not built to do. Released ahead of Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas, the feature extends the enforcement Sweet already runs against cloud workloads to the ...

Web search platform company Nimble today launched Web Search Agents, a product that learns a customer’s domain and then runs complex web research tasks on its own. The company is aiming the release at teams that have found general-purpose web search too blunt for production agents. Generic tools return a wide, unstructured set of results ...

Data security company Cyera Ltd. revealed today that it is set to acquire nonhuman identity management startup Oasis Security Ltd. in a deal Israeli media report is worth about $1 billion. Neither company disclosed terms. Calcalist put the price at roughly $700 million in cash, with the rest paid in Cyera shares. Globes reported that ...

Shares in PayPal Holdings Inc. closed regular trading up 4% today after the payments company beat expectations on revenue and earnings in its second quarter and raised its full-year profit forecast, less than two weeks after a $53 billion buyout offer from Stripe Inc. and Advent International L.P. that its board considers too low. For ...

Crowdsourced cybersecurity company Bugcrowd Inc. today launched Savant Pathseeker, an agentic penetration testing tool that continuously tests external web applications and application programming interfaces for vulnerabilities and provides proof that the flaws it finds can actually be exploited. The product is the first in a new Agentic Offensive Testing line from the company and pairs automated testing ...

Identity security company 1Password today launched 1Password Privileged Access, a product that gives engineers and AI agents a single task’s worth of access to critical infrastructure and nothing that outlasts it. The product pushes 1Password’s Unified Access platform into privileged access management, a category the company entered in June with the acquisition of Apono Inc. ...

Workflow automation company Tines Ltd. today launched Tines 3B, an artificial intelligence-native platform for building, running and governing enterprise workflows, applications and agents. The product targets a problem Tines has taken to calling “Wild Code,” the sprawl of AI-generated software now being assembled inside enterprises by employees working outside traditional information technology processes. Much of ...

Snowflake Inc. today introduced Cortex AI Gateway, a centralized control layer that lets enterprises connect, govern and monitor artificial intelligence agents as they reach into models, tools, Model Context Protocol servers and internal systems. The company cast the gateway as the connective tissue for the “agentic enterprise,” the point at which autonomous software agents start ...

Security hyperautomation platform company Torq Ltd. today introduced Torq SOC Brain, a new layer of its artificial intelligence security operations center platform that trains on a customer’s own investigation history and analyst decisions instead of treating every alert as a fresh problem. Torq said most autonomous investigation tools retrieve similar past cases and pass them to a ...

Agent infrastructure startup Diagrid Inc. today released Catalyst 2.0, an update to its managed workflow engine that adds automatic failure recovery and cryptographic verification to artificial intelligence agents built on frameworks such a LangGraph, Microsoft Agent Framework and Google’s Agent Development Kit. Developers do not have to rebuild anything to use it. Teams add a ...