Plato has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round to expand its simulated workplace environments, where AI models can practice complex tasks before operating in real business systems. Led by Nava Ventures, with participation from Gradient Ventures, Transpose Platform and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, the round brings Plato’s total funding to $19…
NOL8 has launched the NOL8 AI Data Plane, a platform designed to control which enterprise data enters and leaves AI models, agents and tools. The system applies deterministic pattern-matching policies to prompts, retrieved documents, tool calls and model outputs, aiming to give security teams more predictable control over sensitive information as organizations deploy autonomous AI….
AI governance company Trustible is working with Mass General Brigham to help standardize how the US healthcare system evaluates, approves and monitors artificial intelligence use cases. The implementation will support existing governance processes across clinical care, research and operations, including risk assessment, review routing, decision documentation and post-deployment monitoring. The collaboration will also explore practical…
Voice AI developer Rime has launched Prism, a fine-tunable speech-to-speech model designed to give enterprises more control over conversational AI. The model can run on-premises or in a private cloud, with customization for vocabulary, pronunciation, latency and safety policies. Rime says Prism generates text before speech, enabling businesses to review responses and maintain audit trails….
OpenNebula Systems and Axelera AI are collaborating to develop infrastructure for European sovereign AI, combining open-source cloud orchestration with specialized AI inference hardware. The initiative targets enterprise AI environments, telecommunications infrastructure and large-scale AI Factories, where organizations need control over how AI workloads are deployed, managed and scaled. Building on an existing integration of Axelera’s…
Clone Systems has rebuilt its Managed SOC + SIEM service around privately hosted, self-managed artificial intelligence, combining 24/7 security monitoring, threat investigation and response in a single offering. The managed security provider says its AI assistant analyzes alerts within its own infrastructure, keeping customer logs away from external AI providers and public model training. The…
Kong Inc. has joined the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance as a founding member, bringing its API connectivity and AI traffic governance technology into an ecosystem focused on securing enterprise AI deployments. The collaboration centers on the ServiceNow Super Intelligence Control Tower, which is designed to help organizations discover, secure, govern, observe and measure AI systems….
Rockwell Automation is highlighting data integration, IT/OT connectivity and workforce readiness as key requirements for scaling artificial intelligence across food and beverage manufacturing. Drawing on its 2026 State of Smart Manufacturing Report, the industrial automation company says nearly 90% of food and beverage manufacturers already use AI and machine learning or plan to adopt them…
Monte Carlo has launched Bayes, an AI-powered reliability teammate designed to detect, troubleshoot and help resolve failures across enterprise AI agents and the data infrastructure supporting them. The system combines agent observability with data monitoring, tracing agent behavior, retrieved context and generated outputs back to underlying data pipelines. The launch targets a growing challenge for…
