Vanta's analysis of its 15,000+ customer base found that 70% of companies have Shadow AI—unapproved AI tools accessing company data—contributing to a 36% year-over-year rise in overall Shadow IT. The …
Most production AI agents run on closed frontier models that developers cannot fine-tune, so continual learning must happen in the agent's environment rather than in model weights, according to a guid…
Vanta, a security-compliance software startup valued at about $4 billion, promoted Sarah Scharf from VP of marketing to CMO, tasking her with solidifying the brand's association with trust and reinven…
Vanta is hiring a Senior Manager, AI Corporate Engineering for a remote U.S. position with a salary of $210k–247k/yr. The role will lead a senior team to own the shared AI platform for Vanta's interna…
Audit Ready AI, a new platform for AI startups and B2B teams, offers a SOC 2 readiness assessment that connects to GitHub to auto-detect compliance controls and generate a readiness score, aiming to s…
Jack Raines argues that AI will not replace financial advisors because the profession relies on behavioral coaching and trust, not just data processing. Raines notes that while large language models a…
Blue Magma, a startup building AI agents for SOC 2 compliance, has shifted its sales strategy to target AI agents rather than humans, after an agent responded to a LinkedIn post and connected the comp…
Microsoft released over 630 patches in July 2025's Patch Tuesday, up from 137 a year ago, driven by security LLMs that help find vulnerabilities but also enable attackers to exploit them faster, promp…
Vanta introduces a local-first governance model for AI agents, emphasizing containment through least privilege, outbound gating, secret hygiene, audit trails, and kill switches. The approach argues th…
Beehiiv, a newsletter platform startup, has rapidly scaled to challenge established competitors by offering integrated monetization and growth tools, attracting over 487,000 subscribers to its own new…
Vanta released GrantGuard, an open-source tool that audits and cleans up permission allowlists built by Claude Code. The tool classifies granted permissions into risk groups and provides a local web U…
Brian, a former Vanta employee, launched Halo, an open-source tool that records AI agent actions in a tamper-evident, hash-chained log to enable runtime auditing. The tool addresses the challenge of v…
Vanta, a Markdown notes app for iPhone, launched on the App Store with on-device AI organization and GTD principles. The app uses Apple's local Foundation models to clean up dictation, format Markdown…
Vanta's SVP of Engineering Iccha Sethi detailed the system the company built to grade its own AI, using language models as judges and humans as juries. The trust management platform, now past $300M AR…
Vanta's Staff Software Engineer Noam Rubin outlines the company's agent development principles, emphasizing betting on model intelligence, enabling composition for emergent behaviors, and building str…
Vanta, an agentic trust platform, crossed $300M in ARR by integrating AI into its security and compliance product, a domain where trust is traditionally hard to earn. The company learned to trust AI b…
Moving AI agents from prototype to production introduces seven critical problems, including unreliable retrieval, tool failures, and lack of observability. Vanta tested its Fin AI Agent on 400 real co…
Tony Fadell, the inventor of the iPod, co-creator of the iPhone, and founder of Nest, discussed the heated internal debates over whether the iPhone should have a physical keyboard and warned that cogn…
Vanta, a security and compliance platform used by over 16,000 companies, announced its "Trustcraft" approach to building AI products. The company said it prioritizes solving real customer outcomes ove…
Independent analyst and former Andreessen Horowitz partner Benedict Evans argues that artificial intelligence is as transformative as the internet or mobile—but no more than that, placing the current …