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Google Cloud today announced a range of new security capabilities designed to protect organizations’ artificial intelligence capabilities while also using AI to strengthen defenses. The updates, revealed at the Google Cloud Security Summit 2025, span agent security, operations, consulting and core platform …
February ransomware attacks hit record high as ThreatDown reports 25% annual surge
A new report out today from ThreatDown, the corporate business unit of Malwarebytes Inc., finds that ransomware attacks jumped 25% year-over-year between July 2024 and June 2025, making it the most active 12-month period on record. The ThreatDown 2025 State of Ransomware …
Alation debuts Chat with Your Data to simplify enterprise access to structured insights
Data intelligence company Alation Inc. today announced the launch of Alation Chat with Your Data, a new offering aimed at allowing anyone in the enterprise to get fast, accurate numbers from structured data by asking questions in plain English. The new solution is designed …
Fastly report finds AI bots are reshaping the balance of web traffic
A new report out today from edge cloud platform provider Fastly Inc. highlights how the explosive growth of artificial intelligence bots is reshaping web traffic, content access and infrastructure risks. The company’s Q2 2025 Threat Insights Report focuses exclusively on AI bots, providing …
Druva introduces AI agents to streamline workload recovery and incident response
Data security provider Druva Inc. today announced a major expansion of DruAI, the company’s suite of artificial intelligence capabilities for customers, to help organizations proactively secure, recover and manage their data. DruAI, built with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore on Amazon Web Services Inc., now includes …
BrowserStack introduces Testing Toolkit Chrome extension to unify QA workflows
Web and mobile testing company BrowserStack Inc. today announced the launch of Testing Toolkit, a new Google Chrome extension that brings more than 10 essential manual testing tools into one solution. The new extension seeks to address the issue wherein manual web testing has …
Ping Identity expands platform with integrated privileged access management
Identity management provider Ping Identity Corp. today announced new just-in-time privileged access capabilities within the Ping Identity Platform that provide capabilities across all three categories of identity: access management, identity governance and administration, and privileged access management. The new access capabilities come …
Sentient launches The GRID to connect and make money from open AI agents
Open-source artificial intelligence development platform provider Sentient Foundation today announced the launch of The GRID, a “network of intelligence” that is designed to let developers monetize and coordinate artificial intelligence agents across real-world environments. The GRID varies from proprietary marketplaces from the likes of OpenAI …
AI coding assistant startup Cognition reportedly raises nearly $500M on $9.8B valuation
Artificial intelligence coding assistant startup Cognition AI Inc. has reportedly raised nearly $500 million in funding on a $9.8 billion valuation, a month after it entered an agreement to acquire Windsurf Inc. Though the company hasn’t as yet confirmed the raise, The …
Sentry launches MCP Server Monitoring to give developers deeper operational insight
Application performance monitoring company Sentry Inc. today announced the launch of MCP Server Monitoring, a new service that gives anyone building on top of the Model Context Protocol a clearer view into what is working and not working behind the scenes. MCP, introduced by …