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Fortinet Inc. today expanded its FortiEndpoint platform with a set of features aimed at helping companies monitor employee use of artificial intelligence tools and stop sensitive data from leaking into them. The update adds AI visibility and controls, built-in data loss prevention …
Liquid Instruments launches GenInst Studio to build test instruments by prompt
Software-defined test and measurement startup Liquid Instruments Pty. Ltd. today launched GenInst Studio, software that turns a plain-language description into a custom, ready-to-run test instrument on the company’s reconfigurable Moku hardware. GenInst Studio takes the request through a chat interface and hands back a …
Cloudflare launches Precursor to catch bots by watching entire sessions
Cloudflare Inc. today opened general availability for Precursor, a bot detection system that tracks how a visitor behaves across an entire browsing session instead of testing them once on arrival. Precursor runs inside the browser. It streams interaction signals back to Cloudflare’s …
Mercor buys Deeptune to build training environments for AI agents
Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.io Corp. announced today that it has acquired Deeptune Inc., a startup that builds simulated software environments used to train AI agents. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal closed nearly four months after Mercor Chief Executive …
QIZ Security raises $17M seed round for post-quantum readiness platform
Cybersecurity startup QIZ Security Ltd. today announced it has raised $17 million in seed funding to expand a platform that discovers and governs the encryption buried across enterprise systems ahead of the migration to quantum-safe algorithms. Founded in 2025, the company offers …
Market data platform startup Databento closes $97M round after drawing $300M in investor demand
Market data platform startup Databento Inc. today revealed that it has raised $97 million in new funding to broaden its data coverage across asset classes and expand internationally. Investor demand ran past $300 million, according to the company, more than three times …
Cyolo launches CPS Segmentation to curb lateral movement in OT networks
Secure remote privileged access company Cyolo Ltd. today announced Cyolo CPS Segmentation, a microsegmentation product that extends its platform beyond human-to-machine access into controlling how machines and systems communicate across critical infrastructure. The offering targets a gap industrial operators have long acknowledged …
Darktrace finds AI gateway with Amazon Bedrock access hijacked for cryptomining
Researchers at U.K.-based cybersecurity company Darktrace Holdings Ltd. today detailed a cloud intrusion in which a compromised artificial intelligence gateway tied to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Amazon Bedrock was hijacked to mine cryptocurrency. The compromised system was an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud …
Permiso brings FICO-style risk scores to human, machine and AI identities
Unified identity security platform provider Permiso Security Inc. today launched the Risk Score Engine, a model that assigns continuous, multidimensional risk scores to every human, machine and artificial intelligence identity across an organization’s environment. The tool produces three outputs. Identity Risk Scores rank which …
Exclusive: Corvic AI launches V5 to turn one-off prompts into repeatable workflows
Enterprise artificial intelligence startup Corvic AI Inc. today released Corvic V5, a version of its platform built around reusing prompts, so when one gets the right answer, V5 can save it as a workflow that fires again on its own and pulls …