AgentsArmadin: Mandiant Founder M Autonomous Security Agent StartupTechCrunch·high signalXBlueskyLinkedInCopy linkKevin Mandia raises M for agent-native security. 60+ employees, Fortune 100 customers in 6 months. Backed by In-Q-Tel.SourceSource pageTechCrunch↳ Follow the threadThreat pattern / Follow-up threadListen Labs walked from a signed $1.5B Menlo term sheet to negotiate a ~$2B Salesforce saleTechCrunchPolicy dependency / Stack layerMullenweg Tells Automattic Staff in Slack He Is Back in Control, Days After the Board Voted Him Out With 50 Minutes' NoticeTechCrunch (corroborated by 404 Media, Search Engine Journal and NewsBytes)Stack layer / Threat patternClaude Code 2.1.269 Ships a Plugin Eval Runner and a Knob to Raise the Workflow Tool's Concurrent Agent Cap to 256Anthropic (claude-code CHANGELOG)Stack layer / Threat patternAnthropic's alignment transcript shows a model spending 150 pages of reasoning on CAPTCHAs to publish to PyPITechCrunch (citing Anthropic alignment assessment)Stack layer / Threat patternSalesforce frames its agent stack as an 'Enterprise AI Harness' with a separate AI Control PlaneSalesforceStack layer / Threat patternOne operator ran hundreds of Codex- and DeepSeek-driven agents to compromise 440+ PaperCut servers at 395 organizations in 48 countriesGreyNoiseStack layer / Threat patternKevin Zakka's mjbatch steps thousands of MuJoCo simulations in parallel on CPUGitHubStack layer / Threat patternNscale Put Former OpenAI No. 2 Fidji Simo on Its Board Ahead of a Possible IPOTechCrunch