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Application observability startup groundcover Ltd. today announced a major expansion of Agent Mode that lets artificial intelligence agents act on a team’s observability data across the development tools they already use. The update allows engineers to direct agents to recommend code, open …
Arcova promises to strip 18 months and up to $200M from AI data center builds
Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence consulting firm Arcova today launched an end-to-end data center development offering that brings engineering, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance and grid-planning coordination under one team. The offering is designed to carry data center programs from site selection through day-two operations. …
CoreWeave debuts ARIA agent to automate AI research in Weights & Biases
Artificial intelligence cloud operator CoreWeave Inc. today launched ARIA, an AI research agent built into the Weights & Biases platform. The agent reads experiment data and surfaces insights researchers might miss, then recommends ways to improve their models and agents. Short for AI …
As OpenAI staggers GPT-5.6 rollout for government vetting, it may delay IPO to 2027
OpenAI Group PBC will roll out its next model, GPT-5.6, to a small group of partners rather than the public at the request of the Trump administration, the latest sign that Washington now wants to review frontier artificial intelligence models before they …
Nebulock raises $25M to expand hunt-first security platform
Threat hunting startup Nebulock Inc. revealed today that it has raised $25 million in new funding to push its autonomous hunting platform into broader “hunt-first” security analytics. Founded in 2023, Nebulock offers autonomous, vendor-agnostic threat hunts driven by artificial intelligence. Those hunts span endpoint, …
New MCP specification kills old risks but opens fresh attack surfaces, Akamai finds
A major overhaul of the Model Context Protocol due next month removes several longstanding protocol-level security risks but hands developers a fresh set of attack surfaces to defend, according to research published today by Akamai Technologies Inc. The analysis examines the MCP …
Exclusive: Chainguard extends Repository scanning and policies to Java, Python and containers
Secure software supply chain solution provider Chainguard Inc. today expanded its Chainguard Repository product with malware scanning, policy enforcement and visibility features that now cover Java packages, Python packages and container images. The update extends protections that previously applied only to JavaScript …
Warp lands $60M to automate payroll, compliance and HR with AI
Employee management startup Warp today said it has raised $60 million in new funding to expand a platform that uses artificial intelligence to run payroll and other back-office work with little staff involved. The New York-based company pitches itself as an AI-native …
BreachRx launches Rex Platform to coordinate AI-era incident response
Incident response company BreachRx Inc. today launched the Rex Platform, an agentic artificial intelligence incident command center built for a future in which AI-accelerated attacks set off several breaches at once. The platform grows out of Rex AI, the generative AI engine …
Incode acquires Identiq, commits $100M to privacy-first identity tech
Identity verification company Incode Technologies Inc. today announced that it has acquired Identiq Protocol Ltd., an Israeli startup that builds cryptographic tools letting companies share fraud signals without sharing the underlying customer data. Incode is treating the deal as the centerpiece of …