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Xpander Raises $7.5 Million to Help Companies Control Their AI Agents
A startup says it can give organisations a single control panel for the AI software agents running across their business. Investors just backed that idea with $7.5 million.
When an AI Bot Causes Harm, Who Pays? Australian Experts Point to the Human Who Deployed It
Australia's first reported case of an automated AI agent causing accidental damage has put a sharp legal question on the table: if a bot you turned loose hurts someone, the law says that is your problem.
Four Gaps That Are Keeping AI Out of Your Security Team's Hands
Security operations centres are spending big on artificial intelligence, but most are not seeing results. Here is why the problem is not the technology.
USA Fencing's Identity Problem: How a Sports Body Stopped Checking Kids' Ages by Hand
With more than 50,000 members ranging from age eight to eighty, USA Fencing was drowning in paper birth certificates. Here is how it automated the problem away, and why the data questions around children are still worth watching.
Cantina Raises $8 Million to Let AI Agents Hunt and Fix Security Flaws Automatically
A New York startup wants to replace slow, manual vulnerability management with software agents that find problems, investigate them, and patch them without waiting for a human to file a ticket.
Ivanti Used AI to Find a Perfect-Score Security Flaw in Its Own Software. Here Is What That Means.
The company quietly ran an AI project starting in March and says the results are already surprising even its own security chief.
When the IT Team Is at the Beach, Who's Watching the Alerts?
Summer holiday rotas leave security desks thin. Kaseya argues AI-driven automation can hold the line, but only if it's set up before the out-of-office replies start.
When Attacks Take Minutes, Not Days: The AI Speed Problem Defenders Now Face
Criminals using AI models can now write phishing bait, pick targets and hop between machines faster than most security teams can read the first alert.
An AI Agent Ran a Ransomware Attack by Itself. Here's What That Means.
Criminals used an AI tool called Langflow to let a machine plan and carry out a multi-step ransomware intrusion without a human guiding every move — a shift that could make attacks faster and cheaper to run at scale.
A Year of Testing Has Cooled Security Teams' Enthusiasm for AI-Run Hacking Drills
Companies that hoped AI could fully replace human security testers have pulled back sharply. New data shows only 9% still trust fully automated systems — down from nearly a third just twelve months ago.
The Alert Queue Is Full. So Is the Graveyard of Missed Threats.
When every event screams critical, nothing is. AI and automation are being drafted to fix a triage problem that human analysts simply can't outrun anymore.
Six Things SRE Teams Demand Before Handing Anything to an AI Agent
Observability gaps, missing guardrails, and opaque reasoning are the real blockers — not the AI itself.
The Gap Between the Tools Is Where Networks Break
More dashboards, more telemetry, more AI copilots — and outages still drag on for hours. The problem isn't visibility. It's the handoff.
The Real Bottleneck in Network Incidents Isn't Detection — It's Everything After
Monitoring catches the spike in seconds. Then the Slack thread starts, and the clock keeps running.