Shield AI announced a massive capital raise that pushes its post‑money valuation to $12.7 billion. The company will also acquire Aechelon Technology, a specialist in high‑fidelity defense simulation, as part of a broader push to embed its Hivemind AI pilot suite deeper into military training and autonomous‑flight workflows. Funding round and new backers The defense AI…
The cybersecurity market is witnessing a notable convergence of endpoint protection and autonomous security operations. This week, CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) and IBM announced an extension of their existing collaboration, aimed at tightening the feedback loop between detection and response through AI‑powered orchestration. A deeper technical merge The new arrangement couples CrowdStrike’s Charlotte AI™—the company’s proprietary investigative engine—with…
UiPath (NYSE: PATH), a market leader in what the company calls “agentic automation,” announced a reshuffle of its senior leadership that consolidates product development and engineering under a single executive. Effective March 25 2026, Raghu Malpani, who has served as Chief Technology Officer since May 2024, will assume the broader title of Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO). In the…
Clarity AI, the data‑driven platform that supplies extra‑financial intelligence to investors and corporations, announced a strategic partnership with RiskThinking.ai, a specialist in asset‑level physical climate risk modeling. The collaboration embeds RiskThinking.ai’s Climate Digital Twin™ technology and high‑resolution geospatial data into Clarity AI’s analytics suite, delivering bottom‑up climate and biodiversity insights that go beyond traditional top‑down reporting. A…
Miro, the collaborative workspace that has been positioning itself as an “AI Innovation Workspace,” announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Reforge, an AI‑focused platform that offers product‑team training and development tools. The transaction, which remains subject to customary closing conditions, brings Reforge’s learning catalog, its AI‑powered product development suite, and its staff…
Pagaya Technologies launches its RPM‑R auto resecuritization shelf, offering investors a two‑year‑seasoned auto loan pool and marking a strategic expansion beyond its personal‑loan ABS platform. Extending the Securitization Playbook The new vehicle, marketed as the RPM‑R shelf, is built around a diversified pool of auto loans that have already accumulated 24 months of performance history. By…
The rise of generative AI and the looming threat of quantum computers are reshaping the security playbook for large‑scale IT environments. Dell Technologies announced a suite of upgrades that target both fronts: hardware‑level hardening against future cryptographic attacks and faster, AI‑assisted recovery when breaches happen. The company also broadened its Managed Detection and Response (MDR)…
Ecolab has signed a definitive agreement to purchase CoolIT Systems, a niche player that designs and builds liquid‑cooling hardware for high‑performance computing environments. The deal, valued at roughly $4.75 billion in cash, positions Ecolab to offer a full‑stack cooling solution for the rapidly expanding AI data‑center market. Why the acquisition matters CoolIT’s product line—coolant distribution units,…
WideField Security announced a multi‑faceted development that could reshape how enterprises protect both human users and autonomous software agents. Cisco Investments has joined the company’s Series A financing round, Optiv’s chief revenue officer John Hurley has been appointed to the board, and WideField unveiled a new capability to monitor the identities of AI agents throughout their lifecycle….
