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OpenAI Group PBC today published an open letter signed by more than 100 technology companies, banks, insurers and security vendors warning that artificial intelligence-enabled cyberattacks will become far more widespread within months and that defenders have a narrow period left to get …
Autodesk shares fall despite Q2 beat as cash flow guidance narrows
Shares of Autodesk Inc. fell about 5% in late trading today after the design software company beat Wall Street targets in its fiscal 2027 second quarter and then trimmed the midpoint of its full-year free cash flow forecast. For the quarter that …
Rubrik shares drop on raised outlook as SentinelOne slides on profit guide
Shares of Rubrik Inc. and SentinelOne Inc. both fell in late trading today despite the two cybersecurity companies posting fiscal second-quarter beats on revenue and earnings. Rubrik dropped about 8%, a reaction that came even as the security and AI operations company …
Socure raises $156M at $5.2B valuation and acquires AI startup Fravity
Identity verification company Socure Inc. today announced a $156 million strategic growth investment at a valuation of $5.2 billion. Part of that money went to agentic artificial intelligence startup Fravity AI, acquired in a separate transaction announced the same day. Neither company …
Sonar launches Hunter Agent to find flaws code scanners can’t see
Artificial intelligence code verification and governance company SonarSource Sàrl today released SonarQube Hunter Agent, an AI agent built to find security flaws that pattern-based scanning cannot see. The vulnerabilities it targets are the ones where the code does exactly what it was …
HP beats on earnings and revenue but PC unit slump sinks the stock
Shares in HP Inc. fell more than 9% in late trading today after a third quarter in which the company shipped far fewer personal computers than a year earlier, even though revenue and earnings landed ahead of analyst expectations. For the quarter …
CrowdStrike and Okta shares jump on second-quarter beats and raised outlooks
Shares in CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. and Okta Inc. both jumped in late trading today after the two security companies beat expectations in their July quarters. CrowdStrike shares were up more than 10% after the bell and Okta shares more than 19%. Both …
Exclusive: Mate Security launches Gamebooks to govern how AI agents run investigations
Security operations startup Mate Security Ltd. today launched Gamebooks, a set of structured investigation procedures that govern what its artificial intelligence agents are allowed to do while working an alert. Mate is aiming Gamebooks at two failures that have shaped security automation. …
Glean unveils Tau desktop workspace, claims token-cost edge over Claude
Glean Technologies Inc. today unveiled Glean Tau, a desktop workspace that connects the company’s enterprise artificial intelligence to a user’s local files, applications and code. The launch anchors a broad slate of product news at Glean:GO, the company’s conference this week in …
Data center power startup Emerald AI raises $150M at $1.05B valuation
Data center power startup Emerald AI Inc. today said that it has raised $150 million in new funding in an oversubscribed round at a valuation of $1.05 billion. Emerald will put the money into scaling up commercial deployments worldwide. The company’s core product, …