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OpenAI Group PBC today detailed GPT-Red, an internal artificial intelligence system it built to attack its own models and surface prompt injection vulnerabilities before they reach users. Red teaming is the job of hammering software to find its weak points, work that …
Stripe and Advent reportedly make $53B bid to take PayPal private
Stripe Inc. and private equity firm Advent International L.P. have reportedly offered more than $53 billion to buy PayPal Holdings Inc. in a deal that would take PayPal private and place one of the pioneers of online payments under the control of …
Tenable folds application security into Tenable One exposure platform
Exposure management company Tenable Holdings Inc. today expanded its Tenable One Exposure Management Platform to pull application security risk into the same view as the rest of an organization’s exposure data. By adding static code vulnerability information, the platform now tracks risk from code …
Sophos launches Fusion, an AI-native ‘defense system’ to unify security tools
Cybersecurity firm Sophos Ltd. today launched Sophos Fusion, a single platform that ties together its security operations, endpoint, network, identity, email and cloud protection. Sophos calls it the industry’s first and most complete artificial intelligence-native cybersecurity defense system. It’s a rebuild of Sophos Central, …
Chipmaker Axelera releases Voyager Wingman to speed edge AI development
Edge artificial intelligence chip company Axelera AI B.V. today publicly released Voyager Wingman, an AI assistant that lets developers build and troubleshoot applications for its edge chips by typing plain-language requests instead of digging through documentation. The tool connects to the company’s …
AI DevOps startup MyDecisive launches with $12M and open-source SmartHub
Artificial intelligence DevOps startup MyDecisive formally launched today and announced $12 million in new funding to bring to market an open-source foundation for managing observability data and a commercial suite it says can slash what enterprises spend running production systems. Ari Zilka …
Singularity lands $80M at $400M valuation to build cheap drone interceptors
Air defense startup Singularity Defense Corp. formally launched today, announcing that it has raised $80 million in new funding at a $400 million valuation to mass-produce low-cost interceptors that can knock down the cheap drones and missiles now common on the battlefield. …
New York becomes first US state to impose a data center moratorium
New York became the first state in the U.S. to impose a statewide moratorium on new data centers today after Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing state environmental permits for large facilities for up to a year. Executive Order No. …
Boundless taps idle crypto GPUs to cut AI inference costs
Boundless Network Inc., a distributed computing company that built its graphics processing unit network to generate zero-knowledge proofs for the cryptocurrency industry, is expanding its network toward artificial intelligence inference, the process of providing responses to AI queries. The company said today …
Entrust launches Agentic AI Trust Accelerator to move AI agents into production
Identity-centered security solution company Entrust Corp. today launched the Agentic AI Trust Accelerator, a co-development program that brings together enterprises and technology partners to build the identity infrastructure companies need to move autonomous AI agents from pilot projects into production. The program targets a …