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Blumira launches Kindling pilot, an agentic SIEM investigation engine that cuts alert volume up to 50x

Duncan Riley — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:00:08 +0000

Security operations platform startup Blumira Inc. today launched the pilot of Kindling, an agentic security information and event management investigation engine that the company says can reduce alert volume for security teams by 30 to 50 times. Pitched at small and midmarket security operations centers and the managed service providers that support them, Kindling sits on top […]

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Cofense adds AI-driven campaign detection to its phishing defense platform

Duncan Riley — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:00:40 +0000

Phishing defense company Cofense Inc. today unveiled new artificial intelligence-driven detection and automation features for its Phishing Defense Platform aimed at catching coordinated polymorphic phishing campaigns that slip past traditional filters and AI-only tools. The company says the new features shift away from one-email-at-a-time responses toward action at the campaign level. The release pairs campaign-aware detection with […]

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JupiterOne targets AI sprawl with new attack surface and vulnerability tools

Duncan Riley — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:00:23 +0000

Artificial intelligence risk management platform provider JupiterOne Inc. today announced the launch of two new offerings aimed at helping security teams get a handle on risk created by the sprawl of AI systems across enterprise environments. The company pitches the two products, AI Attack Surface Management and Unified Vulnerability Management, as a way to show […]

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Idira launches as Palo Alto Networks extends CyberArk tech to machine and agentic identities

Duncan Riley — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:50:26 +0000

Palo Alto Networks Inc. today launched Idira, a new identity security platform designed to manage human, machine and artificial intelligence agent identities across the enterprise under a single privileged access management framework. Idira incorporates technology from CyberArk Software Ltd., the privileged access management specialist Palo Alto Networks acquired in February for $25 billion, and extends those […]

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Agentic SOC startup Exaforce closes $125M round at reported $725M valuation

Duncan Riley — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:25:06 +0000

Agentic security operations startup Exaforce Inc. today announced that it has raised $125 million in new funding to scale up its AI-driven security operations platform and expand its real-time threat reasoning capabilities. Though not confirmed directly by Exaforce, TechCrunch reports that the round was raised at a valuation of $725 million. Founded in 2023, Exaforce sells what […]

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New Signadot skill lets Claude Code, Codex and Cursor validate changes in live Kubernetes environments

Duncan Riley — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:00:20 +0000

Microservices testing company Signadot Inc. today launched /signadot-validate, a new skill that lets coding agents such as Anthropic PBC’s Claude Code, OpenAI Group PBC’s Codex and Cursor validate their own changes against production-like Kubernetes environments before handing code back to developers. The skill is designed to close what Signadot calls the “agent loop” in cloud-native […]

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Manifold scores 7,700 MCP servers in Manifest expansion aimed at agent security teams

Duncan Riley — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:00:03 +0000

Artificial intelligence detection and response platform startup Manifold Security Inc. today announced an expansion of its Manifest supply chain intelligence tool to cover Model Context Protocol servers, adding scored entries for more than 7,700 servers pulled from the official MCP Registry. The expansion brings MCP servers into the same searchable index Manifold already maintains for agent skills […]

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AI security startup Grego AI debuts, claims record $250,000 bounty for AI-found exploit

Duncan Riley — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:00:40 +0000

Artificial intelligence cybersecurity startup Grego AI formally launched today with a claimed method of using existing AI models to find critical software vulnerabilities that human auditors and other automated tools routinely miss. Founded in 2024, the company calls its approach Deep Invariant Analysis. The tool scans a full codebase and works out how each module […]

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With $50M in funding, Frame Security takes aim at AI-powered social engineering

Duncan Riley — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:33:14 +0000

Human risk security startup Frame Security Ltd. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $50 million in funding to build out its platform, which uses artificial intelligence to harden employees against social engineering and deepfake attacks. Frame pitches its platform as a replacement for quarterly slide decks and canned phishing simulations that still […]

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Quiq extends its AI agent platform into voice as enterprise rollouts move past pilots

Duncan Riley — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:15:14 +0000

Artificial intelligence customer service platform provider Quiq Inc. today launched a new voice product and refreshed its brand, betting that customer experience teams are ready to move beyond isolated pilots to scaled production deployments. The new voice capability extends Quiq’s platform into real-time spoken conversations to allow customers to move between voice and messaging channels […]

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Google says criminals used AI to build a working zero-day exploit for the first time

Duncan Riley — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:00:35 +0000

Criminal hackers have used artificial intelligence to develop a working zero-day exploit, the first confirmed case of its kind, according to a report released today by Google LLC’s Google Threat Intelligence Group. The GTIG AI Threat Tracker report details how a criminal group used AI to build a Python-based exploit targeting a two-factor authentication bypass […]

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Akamai shares surge 26% on $1.8B AI infrastructure deal as earnings meet estimates

Duncan Riley — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:40:27 +0000

Shares in Akamai Technologies Inc. surged more than 26% in late trading today after the cybersecurity and cloud computing company reported in-line first-quarter results and disclosed a $1.8 billion, seven-year commitment from a leading U.S.-based frontier model provider for its cloud infrastructure services. For its fiscal 2026 first quarter that ended on March 31, Akamai […]

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Block raises 2026 outlook after first-quarter earnings beat, accelerating gross profit growth

Duncan Riley — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:17:56 +0000

Shares of Block Inc. rose more than 8% in late trading today after the financial services company beat earnings expectations, accelerated gross profit growth and raised its full-year outlook on the back of a deepening artificial intelligence push inside the business. For its fiscal 2026 first quarter that ended on March 31, Block reported adjusted […]

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Cloudflare beats on earnings, but 20% AI-driven layoffs and weak guidance send shares down

Duncan Riley — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:49:58 +0000

Shares in Cloudflare Inc. plunged more than 16% in late trading today after the content delivery network and security company beat fiscal 2026 first-quarter estimates but issued second-quarter revenue guidance that fell short of expectations. It also announced plans to cut about 20% of its workforce in a restructuring tied to what it called an […]

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‘Infrahub’ maker OpsMill raises $14M to give AI agents a single view of enterprise infrastructure

Duncan Riley — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:00:40 +0000

Infrastructure data management startup OpsMill SAS announced today that it has raised $14 million in new funding to expand its infrastructure data management platform aimed at making enterprise information technology environments ready for artificial intelligence-driven automation. Founded in 2023, OpsMill develops software that gives enterprise infrastructure and network teams a unified, structured view of their […]

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Corgi raises $160M at $1.3B valuation to expand AI-native insurance platform

Duncan Riley — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:16:49 +0000

Corgi Insurance Inc., an artificial intelligence-native insurance carrier built for startups, revealed today that it has raised $160 million in new funding at a $1.3 billion valuation to expand its startup insurance products, develop its technology further and move into new verticals. Founded in 2024 and a graduate of Y Combinator’s Summer 2024 batch, Corgi […]

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Amplitude shares slide after revenue beat, earnings miss and softer profit outlook

Duncan Riley — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:47:45 +0000

Shares of Amplitude Inc. dropped sharply in late trading today after the analytics company reported a mixed fiscal 2026 first quarter that beat on revenue but missed slightly on adjusted earnings, even as it raised its full-year revenue outlook. For the quarter that ended on March 31, Amplitude reported an adjusted earnings per share loss […]

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Fortinet shares surge on first-quarter earnings beat and raised outlook

Duncan Riley — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:16:01 +0000

Shares of Fortinet Inc. surged more than 15% in late trading today after the cybersecurity company reported strong beats in revenue and earnings in its fiscal 2026 first quarter and lifted its full-year outlook. For the quarter that ended on March 31, Fortinet reported adjusted earnings per share of 82 cents, up from 58 cents […]

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Atlassian opens Teamwork Graph and pushes Rovo into agentic execution at Team ’26

Duncan Riley — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:00:40 +0000

Atlassian Corp. today unveiled a sweeping set of artificial intelligence updates at its annual Team ’26 conference, headlined by the broad opening of its Teamwork Graph and the evolution of its Rovo AI assistant from a helper into an agent that can plan and execute multistep work autonomously. The company said the Teamwork Graph, which […]

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Tanium and ServiceNow launch joint solution to automate endpoint patching and remediation

Duncan Riley — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:15:03 +0000

Cybersecurity software provider Tanium Inc. today announced a new partnership with ServiceNow Inc. to deliver a joint autonomous information technology solution, ITOM AI Prime powered by Tanium. The joint offering integrates the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform with ServiceNow IT Operations Management AI Prime into a single solution to move from reactive operations to autonomous, outcome-based IT, where […]

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Security training startup Herd Security raises $3M to expand AI capabilities

Duncan Riley — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:00:57 +0000

Security training platform startup Herd Security Inc. today announced that it has raised $3 million in new funding to expand product development across new training categories in human resources and artificial intelligence, optimize its AI-powered video generation capabilities and grow its partnership ecosystem. Founded in 2025, Herd Security offers an agentic AI platform built for […]

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Boost Security acquires SecureIQx and Korbit, adds $4M in new funding

Duncan Riley — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:00:55 +0000

Application security startup Boost Security Inc. today announced two acquisitions and an additional $4 million in funding as it builds out what it pitches as an artificial intelligence-native defense platform for software development. The company has acquired SecureIQx, an MIT-founded startup that built a software composition analysis reachability engine and Korbit Technologies Inc., an AI-driven […]

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Monday.com relaunches as an AI work platform with native agents

Duncan Riley — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:00:10 +0000

Cloud project management provider monday.com Ltd. today relaunched itself as an “AI work platform,” repositioning itself around context-aware artificial intelligence agents that execute tasks alongside human workers. The repositioning represents monday.com’s most significant strategic shift since going public in 2021, recasting the platform from a tool that helps teams track work to one that performs the work […]

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Blitzy raises $200M at $1.4B valuation to deploy thousands of coding agents in parallel

Duncan Riley — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:24:16 +0000

Autonomous software development startup Blitzy Inc. said today it has raised $200 million in new funding on a valuation of $1.4 billion to expand its enterprise coding platform. The company was founded in 2023 by Brian Elliott, a serial entrepreneur and former Army Ranger, and Sid Pardeshi, an Nvidia Corp. master inventor who holds more […]

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Supermicro shares rally on guidance after Q3 revenue falls short of estimates

Duncan Riley — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:58:54 +0000

Super Micro Computer Inc.’s shares surged more than 18% in after-hours trading today after the server maker reported a mixed fiscal 2026 third quarter, missing revenue estimates but topping earnings expectations and issuing strong guidance for the current quarter. For the quarter that ended on March 31, Supermicro reported adjusted earnings per share of 84 […]

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DigitalOcean raises 2026 and 2027 revenue outlook after AI-driven earnings beat

Duncan Riley — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:29:51 +0000

Shares of DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. rocketed more than 40% today after the developer-oriented cloud infrastructure provider topped Wall Street targets in its fiscal 2026 first quarter. It also lifted its revenue outlook for both 2026 and 2027 on what it called accelerating demand for inference and agentic artificial intelligence workloads. For the quarter that ended […]

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WSO2 launches Agent Manager to help enterprises tame AI agent sprawl

Duncan Riley — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:00:03 +0000

Open-source technology provider WS02 LLC today announced the launch of WSO2 Agent Manager, an open control plane for artificial intelligence agents that gives enterprises a unified way to identify, govern, secure and scale agents across environments. The new offering helps organizations move from AI experimentation to production by addressing a critical gap: bringing visibility, control and accountability […]

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Dyna Software launches Platform Copilot, an agentic AI tool for configuring ServiceNow

Duncan Riley — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:00:21 +0000

Dyna Software Inc., a company that provides platform governance and health provider for ServiceNow Inc., today announced the launch of Platform Copilot, an agentic artificial intelligence tool the company describes as the first to autonomously configure, design and build on the ServiceNow platform. Platform Copilot integrates with a customer’s ServiceNow development instance and applies configuration […]

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Palantir beats earnings expectations, raises full-year guidance as US revenue doubles

Duncan Riley — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:49:27 +0000

Shares in Palantir Technologies Inc. sagged more than 2% in late trading today despite the big-data analytics company beating first-quarter expectations and raising full-year guidance for the second consecutive quarter. For its fiscal 2026 first quarter that ended on March 31, Palantir reported adjusted earnings per share of 33 cents, up from 13 cents per […]

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Opaque buys post-quantum cryptographic AI tech from Abu Dhabi’s TII

Duncan Riley — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:00:10 +0000

Confidential artificial intelligence platform provider Opaque Systems Inc. today announced it has acquired advanced cryptographic AI technologies from the Technology Innovation Institute, the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council. The acquired technologies add critical capabilities to OPAQUE’s platform: confidential AI model training powered by advanced cryptographic techniques such as multiparty computation and fully […]

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