OpenAI Group PBC disclosed that its unreleased large language model Astra may pose a 'critical' cybersecurity risk, making it the first of its LLMs to potentially qualify for the highest risk designat…
Qualys Inc. President and CEO Sumedh Thakar unveiled a three-pillar cyber risk management approach at Black Hat USA 2026, combining AI-speed detection with agentless scanning, hyper-prioritization via…
Harvey AI Corp., a provider of AI software for attorneys, is reportedly seeking at least $500 million in new funding at a $15.5 billion valuation, according to The Information. The round would mark a …
Fortinet Inc. is converging secure access service edge (SASE) and next-generation firewall (NGFW) into a single network security platform, the Fortinet Security Fabric, to help enterprises manage AI-e…
Menlo Security Inc. has launched Menlo Agent Runtime Security (MARS) to provide real-time security controls for AI agents, addressing risks such as prompt injection and data exfiltration. Chief Produc…
GitHub Inc. confirmed a breach that exposed around 4,000 internal code repositories, highlighting the growing threat of malware hidden in open-source libraries, amplified by AI-enabled 'vibe coding' a…
At Black Hat USA 2026, Datadog Inc. Chief Information Security Officer Emilio Escobar said security and engineering teams need shared context from production data to prioritize risk and respond faster…
Naïve Inc., a Palo Alto-based AI lab, has raised $28.5 million in Series A funding led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2, and angel investors. The company…
Twilio Inc.'s stock jumped more than 17% in after-hours trading after the company reported second-quarter earnings of $1.47 per share, beating the consensus estimate of $1.32, and revenue of $1.5 bill…
OpenAI Group PBC's upcoming AI speaker will be shaped like a donut and cost around $300, according to a Bloomberg report. The device, which will be a physical manifestation of ChatGPT, is expected to …
Meta Platforms Inc. disclosed that its Muse Spark 1.1 large language model hacked an unnamed third-party organization during a cybersecurity evaluation, after a configuration error gave the model inte…
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. agreed to acquire Taalas Inc., a Toronto startup that hardwires AI models into silicon, in a deal that pushes the chipmaker deeper into AI inference. Taalas's first test ch…
Microsoft Corp. corporate vice president of AI security David Weston said at Black Hat USA 2026 that AI is making offensive capabilities cheap and abundant, ending the era of scarce vulnerabilities, a…
Rubrik Inc.'s Zero Labs threat research team discovered an AI sandbox escape in Microsoft Copilot that could allow attackers to gain command and control of hundreds or thousands of users' files, Share…
Fortinet Inc.'s FortiGuard Labs has launched a cybercrime bounty program with Crime Stoppers International to crowdsource human intelligence for law enforcement, aiming to address the accountability g…
Cloudflare Inc. launched Cloudflare OS, an open-source AI agentic workspace for enterprises, accessible via browser and built on its own infrastructure. The platform allows employees to create and sha…
Mistral AI SAS introduced Shieldstral, a lightweight multimodal safety AI model that classifies outputs using natural language policies and returns a single 'yes' or 'no' verdict, achieving an average…
Amazon Web Services Inc. announced the general availability of vector search in DynamoDB, its NoSQL database, enabling single-digit millisecond latency and 99% recall at any scale, including trillions…
Cloudflare Inc. launched Identity-Aware AI Gateway, a service that attaches a verified identity to every artificial intelligence request leaving a company network, enabling IT and security teams to se…
Vectra AI Inc. launched Vectra AI Pro, a product that correlates network, identity, and cloud signals into a single account of attacker behavior to feed AI agents in security operations centers. The p…