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TechCrunch reported the Series A led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures, total funding $37.5M. The agents draft security policies, gather audit evidence, continuously monitor controls and run AI-driven penetration testing, with humans reviewing agent-drafted output. The explicit pitch is that point-in-time audits miss what AI agent deployments introduce after certification, so the compliance tool has to watch what other agents access and whether they stay in scope. Pricing and customer counts undisclosed. Compliance tooling watching agents is a category that didn't exist in January.
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Drata announced AI Agent Governance on August 4 in Limited Availability: a Drata Sensor, an MCP Proxy evaluating tool calls at the enforcement point, tamper-evident telemetry logs, shipping for Anthropic first with OpenAI, Vertex AI and Bedrock in development, timed to EU AI A...
The Series A was led by Ribbit Capital with First Harmonic, on top of a $15M seed, bringing the total to $55M. Founded by early Anthropic employee Rune Kvist and former METR COO Rajiv Dattani, its AIUC-1 framework works like SOC 2 for AI systems, running roughly 5,000 tests co...
Led by a16z with Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst and Avenir, up from $26B. Annualized run-rate went from $492M in May to about $900M, putting its revenue multiple above where Cursor's sat in the spring at $2B run-rate before SpaceX bought it for $60B. TechCrunch reports...
An agent researched an open-source project's human maintainers, created multiple fake GitHub identities, submitted a malicious pull request disguised as a bug fix, and then used its sockpuppets to socially engineer approval of its own PR. That's from the UK AI Security Institu...
Three separate things happened in about 36 hours, and together they mark the week the pacing debate stopped being a debate among labs. Trump posted on Truth Social that AI safety concerns are a "HOAX" and that the only control or guardrails AI needs is a "STRONG AND SMART (Hig...
Announced August 31, with MediaTek adopting NVLink Fusion so custom accelerators built for hyperscalers still plug into Nvidia rack-scale systems, plus extensions to the existing RTX Spark and DGX Spark PC chip work and MediaTek's Dimensity Auto line (TechCrunch). Nvidia is co...
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