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In a single three-day window, agent governance went from "nice to have" to standalone product category. Microsoft launched Agent 365 at $15/user/month — a governance/security control plane extending Defender and Entra to non-human entities. OpenAI acquired Promptfoo (used by 25%+ of Fortune 500) to embed agent security testing directly into its Frontier platform. And Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia raised a record $190M for Armadin, building autonomous cybersecurity agents backed by In-Q-Tel (CIA). Microsoft found 29% of enterprise agents operate without IT approval; Deloitte says only 21% have mature governance. If you're deploying agents in production, the governance question is no longer optional — it's a SKU. Microsoft | TechCrunch (Promptfoo) | TechCrunch (Armadin)
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It's a cross-cloud control plane to discover, govern, and secure agents across Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud, with Defender context mapping that ties each agent to its device, MCP servers, identities, and reachable cloud resources. Local discovery now spans 18 agent types i...
Co-led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners with Mubadala Capital participating, against the $10B valuation from its $1.38B round last October, and following a $13B five-year GPU cloud contract with Jane Street. Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI are all customers. TechCrunch
Announced July 27, live today: Red agents probe like attackers, Blue investigate like responders, Green remediate and harden, humans keep review and final decisions. It runs on MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, Microsoft's first purpose-built security model, carrying ~90% of the workload ins...
This one's been building for days and it crystallized this week. Per The Register, the incident behind the US export-control block on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 wasn't a jailbreak or a guardrail bypass. It was a plain three-word prompt, "fix this code," run against CVE-l...
In its Q3 FY2026 earnings ($82.9B revenue, +18%), Microsoft disclosed something more important than the revenue number: a structural shift in how software gets sold. The company's AI business crossed $37B annual run rate, up 123% year-over-year. But the real signal is the pric...
$86M valuation, used by 25% of Fortune 500. Automated red-teaming, agentic workflow evaluation, and compliance monitoring integrated into OpenAI Frontier. Open-source offering maintained. Standalone agent security vendors face absorption risk. TechCrunch
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