Most security teams face the same problem. There are far more flaws than anyone can fix, and no clear way to know which ones matter. Empirical Security wants to predict the answer. The Chicago startup’s Series A was led by Brightmind Partners, chief executive Ed Bellis told Axios, which first reported the round. It takes […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
Earlier today, OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a specialized model designed to perform advanced vulnerability research and exploit development for approved defenders — including categories of work th [...]
Empirical Ventures, which backs what it calls “venture scientists”, PhDs building deeptech companies across energy, materials, and life sciences, has received a fresh £10M commitment via the BBB [...]
Capital One on Thursday released VulnHunter, an open-source, agentic AI security tool that scans source code for exploitable vulnerabilities, maps out how an attacker would reach them, and proposes ta [...]
A 27-year-old bug sat inside OpenBSD’s TCP stack while auditors reviewed the code, fuzzers ran against it, and the operating system earned its reputation as one of the most security-hardened platfor [...]
Amazon Web Services is threading its AI-powered security infrastructure directly into the coding environments built by two of its fiercest rivals — and in doing so, it is making a bold bet that cont [...]
Hybrid cloud security was built before the current era of automated, machine-based cyberattacks that take just milliseconds to execute and minutes to deliver devastating impacts to infrastructure. The [...]
Fleek, a London startup building the software plumbing behind the global secondhand clothing trade, has raised $25m in Series B funding to scale the AI it uses to sort, grade and price used garments. [...]
A team of BioNTech alumni thinks cancer screening has been stuck in the past, and it has raised $25M to do something about it. Bios Life has emerged from stealth with a plan to replace one-off screeni [...]
Anthropic pointed its most advanced AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, at production open-source codebases and found a plethora of security holes: more than 500 high-severity vulnerabilities that had survived [...]