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 ...

Cloud detection and response company Skyhawk Security (CNP) Ltd. today said its AI Red Team now ingests vulnerability findings from AWS Continuum and ranks them by whether an attacker could weaponize them as part of a broader cloud breach. The integration lands ahead of Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas. Amazon Web Services Inc. launched Continuum ...

Cybersecurity company ZeroFox Inc. today launched HNTR, an artificial intelligence-first platform that pulls the company’s digital risk protection and threat intelligence products into one service. The first application built on it, HNTR Executive Protection, targets threats against corporate executives. Both are generally available today. ZeroFox runs the platform as a loop it names discovery, validation ...

Microsoft Corp. today introduced its first in-house cybersecurity model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, and a companion agentic system called Project Perception that fields teams of artificial intelligence agents to probe for weaknesses, investigate threats and remediate them, starting with software vulnerability management. The model is a compact, code-tuned derivative of Microsoft’s MAI-Thinking-1 line, trained in-house on the company’s ...

Vulnerability management startup Cogent Security Inc. today introduced Cogent VR-1, a frontier reasoning model trained to find and prove attack paths inside live enterprise environments. The company says VR-1 proved twice as many attack paths as other frontier models on IntrusionBench, a benchmark released alongside it, at roughly a quarter of the cost. The test ...

OpenAI Group PBC today launched Health in ChatGPT, a feature that lets people connect their medical records and Apple Health data to the chatbot — one day after a lawsuit accused the company of handing out dangerous medical advice and asked a California court to halt the product until independent auditors could verify it is ...

Email security startup AegisAI Inc. today said it has raised $36 million in new funding to counter a fast-growing class of artificial intelligence-generated email attacks that no amount of employee training can reliably stop. The San Francisco company builds its own large language models to guard corporate inboxes. The pitch rests on how much the ...

Composable security operations startup Abstract Security Inc. today said it has raised a $25 million Series A extension, capital it will put toward widening in-stream threat detection and pushing its artificial intelligence tooling deeper into the security operations workflow. The round caps a fast year for the company. Annual recurring revenue climbed 380% over the ...

Mobile app security company NowSecure Inc. today introduced a set of artificial intelligence-native features for its testing platform, including a chat assistant, a Model Context Protocol server and new detection for vulnerabilities specific to AI-powered mobile apps. The additions target a fast-moving problem. NowSecure’s 2026 Mobile App Risk Management Survey found that 95% of organizations already run ...