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Cloud financial management startup North Cloud Holdings Inc. today released North 3.0, a platform-wide update that adds Microsoft Azure and pulls cloud, artificial intelligence and data spending into a single system. The release gives North coverage across all three major hyperscale cloud …
Ethyca launches Astralis to govern enterprise AI agents in real time
Data privacy engineering company Ethyca Inc. today launched Astralis, a platform that governs how enterprise artificial intelligence models and agents use company data in real time. The company is pitching the product as an answer to a widening gap between how fast …
Horizon3.ai raises $250M at $2B-plus valuation for autonomous pentesting
Autonomous security solutions startup Horizon3.ai Inc. today announced it has raised $250 million in a Series E round on a valuation of more than $2 billion to build out its sales operation and expand into Australia and Singapore. Horizon3.ai closed its Series D in …
Exclusive: Terra Security’s Prevention writes the firewall rules to block proven exploits
Offensive security startup Terra Security Inc. today launched Prevention, a feature that writes the firewall rules needed to block an attack its artificial intelligence agents have already proven works. Prevention is available now. Terra built it for the gap between a confirmed …
Okta to acquire Permiso Security in reported $200M identity security deal
Okta Inc. said today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security Inc., a startup whose software hunts for attackers abusing identities across cloud accounts, software-as-a-service applications and, more recently, artificial intelligence agents. No price was announced. A person with …
Coinbase shares slide as revenue and earnings miss despite record market share
Shares in Coinbase Global Inc. fell more than 5% in extended trading today after the cryptocurrency exchange missed Wall Street targets on both revenue and earnings, with falling token prices and multi-year lows in volatility gutting its trading business. For its second …
Exclusive: Upwind adds context scanning for AI agents as AI DR hits general availability
Cloud security startup Upwind Security Inc. today unveiled AI Agent Context Scanner, which inspects the instructions, tools and connections feeding artificial intelligence agents before those agents act on them. The company also moved its AI Detection & Response service, or AI DR, …
DataBahn raises $40M as AI agents queue up for enterprise telemetry
Enterprise data pipeline startup DataBahn Inc. today revealed that it has raised $40 million in new funding to accelerate development of what it calls an agentic data control plane. Founded in 2024, DataBahn sells software that sits between the systems generating enterprise …
Cantina launches with $8M to take security work from triage to verified fix
Agentic security startup Cantina formally launched today and said it has raised $8 million in funding to automate the security work that happens after a vulnerability is found. The company was started by security researchers and engineers who spent years finding flaws …
Meta’s AI bill swallows nearly all of its free cash flow as profit falls 14%
Meta Platforms Inc.’s shares fell more than 8% in after-hours trading today after the social networking company beat revenue expectations for its fiscal 2026 second quarter but missed badly on earnings as costs rose 55%. For the quarter that ended on June …