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Israeli runtime security startup Sweet Security Ltd. today unveiled Agentic AI Blocking, a capability that stops artificial intelligence agents mid-action in production when they do something they were not built to do. Released ahead of Black Hat USA 2026 in Las Vegas, …
Nimble launches Web Search Agents to cut AI research token costs
Web search platform company Nimble today launched Web Search Agents, a product that learns a customer’s domain and then runs complex web research tasks on its own. The company is aiming the release at teams that have found general-purpose web search too …
Cyera to buy nonhuman identity startup Oasis Security for a reported $1B
Data security company Cyera Ltd. revealed today that it is set to acquire nonhuman identity management startup Oasis Security Ltd. in a deal Israeli media report is worth about $1 billion. Neither company disclosed terms. Calcalist put the price at roughly $700 …
PayPal tops Q2 estimates and raises full-year forecast amid Stripe takeover bid
Shares in PayPal Holdings Inc. closed regular trading up 4% today after the payments company beat expectations on revenue and earnings in its second quarter and raised its full-year profit forecast, less than two weeks after a $53 billion buyout offer from …
Bugcrowd launches Savant Pathseeker for continuous agentic pentesting
Crowdsourced cybersecurity company Bugcrowd Inc. today launched Savant Pathseeker, an agentic penetration testing tool that continuously tests external web applications and application programming interfaces for vulnerabilities and provides proof that the flaws it finds can actually be exploited. The product is the first in …
1Password aims to cut standing access risks for AI agents
Identity security company 1Password today launched 1Password Privileged Access, a product that gives engineers and AI agents a single task’s worth of access to critical infrastructure and nothing that outlasts it. The product pushes 1Password’s Unified Access platform into privileged access management, …
Tines seeks to tame ‘wild code’ AI sprawl
Workflow automation company Tines Ltd. today launched Tines 3B, an artificial intelligence-native platform for building, running and governing enterprise workflows, applications and agents. The product targets a problem Tines has taken to calling “Wild Code,” the sprawl of AI-generated software now being …
Snowflake debuts Cortex AI Gateway to govern and monitor enterprise AI agents
Snowflake Inc. today introduced Cortex AI Gateway, a centralized control layer that lets enterprises connect, govern and monitor artificial intelligence agents as they reach into models, tools, Model Context Protocol servers and internal systems. The company cast the gateway as the connective …
Torq unveils SOC Brain, a self-learning layer for its AI SOC platform
Security hyperautomation platform company Torq Ltd. today introduced Torq SOC Brain, a new layer of its artificial intelligence security operations center platform that trains on a customer’s own investigation history and analyst decisions instead of treating every alert as a fresh problem. Torq said …
Diagrid Catalyst 2.0 adds durable execution to more than 10 agent frameworks
Agent infrastructure startup Diagrid Inc. today released Catalyst 2.0, an update to its managed workflow engine that adds automatic failure recovery and cryptographic verification to artificial intelligence agents built on frameworks such a LangGraph, Microsoft Agent Framework and Google’s Agent Development Kit. …