Executive Summary Current IAM protocols face fundamental gaps when dealing with autonomous AI agents that can act, not just access data. The ratio of machine to human identities has reached 82:1, with AI agents representing a new, harder-to-govern class. Traditional standards like SAML/OIDC are being extended (SPIFEE, SPIRE) but require more radical evolution in credential…
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More evidence your AI agents can be turned against you
Agentic AI tools are being pushed into software development pipelines, IT networks and other business workflows. But using these tools can quickly turn into a supply chain nightmare for organizations, introducing untrusted or malicious content into their workstream that are then regularly treated as instructions by the underlying large language models powering the tools. Researchers…
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Video: How Thrive Is Bringing AI Managed Services to its Customers
Thrive CTO Michael Gray joins Channel Insider: Partner POV to unpack the MSP’s newest offering: AI Managed Services. Explore how Thrive helps organizations identify practical AI use cases, streamline workflows securely, and adopt AI responsibly across their teams. Michael also shares how Thrive closed internal AI security gaps, why that led to surprising data insights,…
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Exclusive: OpenAI’s Atlas browser — and others — can be tricked by manipulated web content
As AI browser agents enter the market promising to help people shop, hire employees or assist with other online tasks, security researchers are warning that the information these programs collect from the internet can be manipulated and corrupted without anyone ever realizing it. In new research shared exclusively with CyberScoop, AI cybersecurity firm SPLX highlighted…
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Redefining Zero Trust in the Age of AI Agents and Agentic Workflows
AI-powered threats demand intent-based security. Cisco’s Semantic Inspection Proxy redefines zero trust by analyzing agent behavior, ensuring semantic verification.
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Redefining Zero Trust in the Age of AI Agents and Agentic Workflows
AI-powered threats demand intent-based security. Cisco’s Semantic Inspection Proxy redefines zero trust by analyzing agent behavior, ensuring semantic verification.
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Redefining Zero Trust in the Age of AI Agents and Agentic Workflows
AI-powered threats demand intent-based security. Cisco’s Semantic Inspection Proxy redefines zero trust by analyzing agent behavior, ensuring semantic verification.
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Redefining Zero Trust in the Age of AI Agents and Agentic Workflows
AI-powered threats demand intent-based security. Cisco’s Semantic Inspection Proxy redefines zero trust by analyzing agent behavior, ensuring semantic verification.
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Agentic AI platform Manus launches a paid plan for teams
Manus, the once-buzzy AI agent platform, on Tuesday launched a plan aimed at small businesses and organizations. The plan, dubbed Manus Team, starts at $39 per seat per month with a five-seat minimum, totaling $195 per month. Each team gets 19,500 credits in a sharable pool, as well as access to certain features in beta,…
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Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees
Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees, after a previous attempt to hire one didn’t go as planned.
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Even a16z VCs say no one really knows what an AI agent is
Buzzwords that are stretched to the point of being meaningless are as old as the tech industry itself. The top current one is “AI agent” and its variants, like “agentic.” So, unsurprisingly, no one really knows what an AI agent is. Even people with software engineering backgrounds who work for Andreessen Horowitz, one of the premier venture…
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ServiceNow acquires Data.World months after snatching up Moveworks
Enterprise workflow management platform ServiceNow on Wednesday announced its second AI-related acquisition this year. ServiceNow said that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Data.World, a cloud-native data catalog and data governance platform. Austin, Texas-based Data.World was founded in 2015 and previously raised more than $130 million in venture financing from firms such as…
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Relevance AI raises $24M to help businesses build AI agents
Individuals may work closely with AI agents as they become increasingly prevalent in the workplace. According to a report by Boston Consulting Group, the market for AI agents is expected to grow at a 45% compound annual growth rate over the next five years. Just like human employees, AI agents could be onboarded to learn…
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Salt Security Embraces MCP to Improve Cybersecurity in the Age of AI
Salt Security this week at the 2025 RSA Conference made available an early preview of an ability to secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that are emerging as a de facto standard for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) models and agents. The post Salt Security Embraces MCP to Improve Cybersecurity in the Age of AI appeared…
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Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Protect AI, Launches AI Security Platform
Accelerating its aggressive foray into artificial intelligence (AI) security, Palo Alto Networks Inc. on Monday said it has agreed to acquire cybersecurity startup Protect AI. Additionally, the company launched an ambitious AI security platform at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, as well as updates to two of its core products. The deal to buy..…
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AppOmni Adds MCP Server to Platform for Protecting SaaS Applications
AppOmni at the 2025 RSA Conference today added a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to its platform for protecting software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Originally developed by Anthropic, MCP is emerging as a de facto standard for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) agents and models. Melissa Ruzzi, director of AI for AppOmni, said it’s now only a matter..…
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1Password Extends Reach of IAM Platform to AI Agents and Unmanaged Devices
1Password today extended the reach of its Extended Access Management (XAM) platform to include an ability to secure artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The post 1Password Extends Reach of IAM Platform to AI Agents and Unmanaged Devices appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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COGNNA Adds AI Agents to SOC Platform
COGNNA today unveiled a security operations center (SOC) platform infused with artificial intelligence (AI) agents trained to detect, analyze and respond to threats in a way that promises to dramatically reduce alert fatigue. The post COGNNA Adds AI Agents to SOC Platform appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Famed AI researcher launches controversial startup to replace all human workers everywhere
Every now and then, a Silicon Valley startup launches with such an “absurdly” described mission that it’s difficult to discern if the startup is for real or just satire. Such is the case with Mechanize, a startup whose founder – and the non-profit AI research organization he founded called Epoch – is being skewered on…
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Artisan, the ‘stop hiring humans’ AI agent startup, raises $25M – and is still hiring humans
It’s been a tough but exciting year for 23-year-old Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, founder and CEO of AI sales agent startup Artisan. Artisan just raised a $25 million Series A led by Glade Brook Capital, Carmichael-Jack exclusively tells TechCrunch. Y Combinator, Day One Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, Oliver Jung, Fellows Fund, and others participated as well. A year…
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A nonprofit is using AI agents to raise money for charity
Tech giants like Microsoft might be touting AI “agents” as profit-boosting tools for corporations, but a nonprofit is trying to prove that agents can be a force for good, too. Sage Future, a 501(c)(3) backed by Open Philanthropy, launched an experiment earlier this month tasking four AI models in a virtual environment with raising money…
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Shopify CEO tells teams to consider using AI before growing headcount
In a recent memo to employees, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke made a bold policy change: teams must demonstrate why AI can’t perform a job before they’re permitted to ask for more headcount and resources. “Before asking for more headcount and resources, teams must demonstrate why they cannot get what they want done using AI,” Lütke…
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The AI Alibi Defense: How General-Purpose AI Agents Obscure Criminal Liability
As these AI agents become more capable of behaving like autonomous actors — clicking, typing, downloading, exfiltrating, or engaging in arguably criminal behavior — they may also become unintended scapegoats or even tools of plausible deniability. The post The AI Alibi Defense: How General-Purpose AI Agents Obscure Criminal Liability appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Agentic AI Enhances Enterprise Automation: Without Adaptive Security, its Autonomy Risks Expanding Attack Surfaces
The rise of agentic AI is accelerating. But as enterprises embrace AI autonomy, a critical question looms – how well is security keeping up? The post Agentic AI Enhances Enterprise Automation: Without Adaptive Security, its Autonomy Risks Expanding Attack Surfaces appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful
Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures. Laude is the new fund launched in 2024 by Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, the UC Berkeley computer scientist who also co-founded Databricks. This isn’t the only check Laude has cut. But it…
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Browser User, one of the tools powering Manus, is also going viral
Manus, the viral AI “agent” platform from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, has had an unintended side effect: raising the profile of another AI tool called Browser Use. Browser Use, which aims to make websites more accessible for agentic applications that perform tasks on a user’s behalf, has experienced explosive growth in the past week. Daily…
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Dapr’s microservices runtime now supports AI agents
Back in 2019, Microsoft open-sourced Dapr, a new runtime for making building distributed microservice-based applications easier. At the time, nobody was talking about AI agents yet, but as it turns out, Dapr had some of the fundamental building blocks for supporting AI agents built-in from the outset. That’s because one of Dapr’s core features is…
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Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking on stage at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the advocate for secure communications, referred to the use of AI agents as “putting your brain in a jar,” and cautioned that this new paradigm of computing —…
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Crogl, armed with $30M, takes the wraps off a new AI ‘Iron Man suit’ for security analysts
AI agents are marching across the world of IT, and on Thursday a startup called Crogl is debuting its contribution to the field: an autonomous assistant for cybersecurity researchers to help them analyse thousands of daily network alerts to find and fix actual security incidents. The assistant — described by Crogl’s CEO and co-founder Monzy…
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GibberLink lets AI agents call each other in robo-language
A weekend hackathon project that lets AI agents talk on the phone with each other in a robotic language, one that’s incomprehensible to humans, has gone viral on social media over the past week. The project, called GibberLink, was created by two Meta software engineers during a hackathon competition in London, hosted by ElevenLabs and…
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Amazon reportedly forms a new agentic AI group
Amazon has formed a new group within AWS dedicated to creating AI agents, systems that help people automate parts of their lives, Reuters reported on Tuesday. In an email to staff seen by Reuters, AWS CEO Matt Garman said agentic AI has the potential to be “the next multi-billion business for AWS.” A longtime AWS…
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OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor lays out the bull case for AI agents
We still didn’t get a straight up definition of exactly what an AI agent is during Bret Taylor’s Mobile World Congress fireside chat in Barcelona on Tuesday. The Sierra founder and OpenAI board chair preferred to side-step CNN moderator Anna Stewart’s question asking how “agentic AI” is “any different to a GenAI chatbot” by suggesting…
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Unique, a Swiss AI platform for finance, raises $30M
A four-year-old Swiss startup has raised a sizable chunk of change to capitalize on the burgeoning “agentic AI” movement. Unique said on Thursday that it has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round that was led by London-based VC firm DN Capital and CommerzVentures, the investment offshoot of Germany’s Commerzbank. “Agentic AI” is…
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OpenAI rolls out its AI agent, Operator, in several countries
OpenAI said on Friday that it is rolling out Operator, its so-called AI agent that can perform tasks on behalf of users, for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the U.K., and more countries. OpenAI said Operator will be available in most places where ChatGPT is available, apart from…
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Pinkfish helps enterprises build AI agents through natural language processing
As the chief product officer for AI customer service startup TalkDesk, Charayna “CK” Kannan said that enterprises often say they want to automate different workflows but that it’s really hard to implement AI. Enterprises are dealing with clunky, legacy software, that often doesn’t have APIs, creating a daunting task their IT departments weren’t prioritizing. “Every…
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Workday launches a platform for enterprises to manage all of their AI agents in one place
HR giant Workday is launching a new way for enterprises to keep track of all of their AI agents in one place. It’s also launching a few more AI agents of its own, for good measure. Silicon Valley-based Workday announced on Tuesday the release of Workday Digital Workforce Management, which is meant to help customers…
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LogicStar is building AI agents for app maintenance
Swiss startup LogicStar is bent on joining the AI agent game. The summer 2024-founded startup has bagged $3 million in pre-seed funding to bring tools to the developer market that can do autonomous maintenance of software applications, rather than the more typical AI agent use-case of code co-development. LogicStar CEO and co-founder Boris Paskalev suggests…
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OpenAI’s Operator agent helped me move, but I had to help it, too
OpenAI gave me one week to test its new AI agent, Operator, a system that can independently do tasks for you on the internet. Operator is the closest thing I’ve seen to the tech industry’s vision of AI agents — systems that can automate the boring parts of life, freeing us up to do the…
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Jetify launches Testpilot, its AI QA engineer
Jetify, the company formerly known as Jetpack.io, is launching its first AI agent product Tuesday. Dubbed Testpilot, the company’s first AI agent is meant to make the majority of the routine test creation process a matter of simply letting Jetify create a test plan, execute it, and report back, all while the agent directly interacts…
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Coval evaluates AI voice and chat agents like self-driving cars
What do AI voice agents and self-driving cars have in common? Their performance can be evaluated in the same way, argues Brooke Hopkins, a former tech lead at Waymo. Coval, Hopkins’ new startup, looks to do just that. “When I left Waymo, I realized a lot of these problems that we had at Waymo were…
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Postman launches an AI agent builder on top of its API platform
Since it was founded in 2014, India-based Postman has made a name for itself as one of the most popular platforms for building and using APIs, with 500,000 organizations now using the service. Like with so many other SaaS services, though, its valuation today is reportedly down from its $5.6 billion high in 2021. But…
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Here are the types of AI companies enterprise VCs want to back in 2025
The AI startup market is sprawling, from companies looking to develop new chips, to those using AI to build robots, to others looking to use AI to create niche solutions for industry-specific workflows. There are a lot of potential areas for venture capitalists to invest in, but there are clearly a few subsectors they are…
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Nvidia releases more tools and guardrails to nudge enterprises to adopt AI agents
Nvidia is releasing three new NIM microservices, or small independent services that are part of larger applications, to help enterprises bring additional control and safety measures to their AI agents. One of these new NIM services targets content safety and works to prevent an AI agent from generating harmful or biased outputs. Another works to…
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Torq Adds Bevy of AI Agents to Automate Cybersecurity Workflows
Torq has extended the reach of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities spanning its security operations center (SOC) platform to now include multiple agents. The post Torq Adds Bevy of AI Agents to Automate Cybersecurity Workflows appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Salesforce plans to hire 2,000 people to sell its AI products
Cloud software giant Salesforce looks to hire thousands of new sales people to sell its AI tools to customers. The company plans to hire 2,000 new sales representatives, according to CNBC, which cited remarks from CEO Marc Benioff at a company event Tuesday. This doubles the hiring plans that Benioff told Bloomberg last month. Benioff…
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