
Searchlight Cyber Adds Ransomware Leak Site Visibility with Ransomware File Explorer
Searchlight Cyber introduced Ransomware File Explorer, a new feature in its Cerberus platform that provides searchable visibility into file‑tree data posted on ransomware leak sites. The tool indexes file‑tree metadata, enabling instant keyword searches without handling malicious archives. It helps organizations detect exposed PII, intellectual property, and supply‑chain breaches early, even when they are not the direct ransomware victim. By accelerating exposure assessment, the solution aims to cut incident‑response time and reduce legal and reputational risk.

Airbyte Joins the Agentic AI Foundation as a Silver Member
Airbyte announced its membership as a Silver participant in the Linux Foundation’s newly created Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). The move underscores Airbyte’s focus on providing secure, scalable ELT/ETL connectors for autonomous AI agents that require continuous, governed data access. By...

Keyfactor and IBM Consulting Launch Joint Solution to Accelerate Post-Quantum Cryptography Readiness
Keyfactor and IBM Consulting have unveiled a joint solution that streamlines post‑quantum cryptography (PQC) readiness for enterprises. The offering blends Keyfactor’s automated cryptographic discovery, PKI lifecycle management, and digital signing with IBM Consulting’s cybersecurity governance, quantum‑safe delivery frameworks, and AI‑driven...

Yuki Launches with $6M in Funding to Help Businesses Manage Spiraling AI Data Costs
Yuki Technologies raised a $6 million seed round led by Hyperwise Ventures to launch its AI data‑cost optimization platform. The startup’s Yuki Fabric acts as a real‑time control layer for data warehouses such as Snowflake and BigQuery, automatically routing queries to...

Obsidian Security Targets Rising Tide of SaaS Integration Threats
Obsidian Security unveiled a new suite that provides end‑to‑end protection for SaaS‑to‑SaaS integrations, addressing a surge in supply‑chain attacks that exploit OAuth tokens and blind spots in traditional tools. The platform offers real‑time breach detection, visibility into unauthorized “shadow” connections,...

PanTerra Launches Streams.AI for Microsoft Teams: Enterprise Communications That Work Inside Teams—Even When Microsoft Teams Goes Down
PanTerra unveiled Streams.AI for Microsoft Teams, a native unified‑communications app that operates inside Teams without requiring Teams Phone licenses. The solution automatically fails over to PanTerra’s carrier‑grade network when Teams experiences an outage, preserving voice, SMS/MMS, and fax capabilities. It...

Palantir Helps Ukraine Turn Battlefield Data Into Drone Intercepts
Palantir is partnering with Ukraine to launch Brave1 Dataroom, a secure AI platform that gives vetted Ukrainian defense developers access to real battlefield data for training counter‑drone models. The environment houses visual and thermal imagery of Shahed‑type UAVs, allowing AI...

Cool AI Tools for Beginners You Can Use Right Now
The article highlights three beginner‑friendly AI platforms—Perplexity AI, Napkin AI, and Make—that deliver immediate productivity gains without requiring technical expertise. Perplexity AI combines search with AI‑generated answers and source citations, offering a robust free plan. Napkin AI converts written notes...

Silent Push Launches Traffic Origin to Expose the True Source of Obfuscated Web Traffic
Silent Push, a preemptive cyber‑defense startup, unveiled Traffic Origin, a solution that pinpoints the true upstream source of obfuscated web traffic such as residential proxies, VPNs, and bot farms. The platform delivers high‑confidence risk indicators, country‑connected data, and visual context...

Why We Invested in Endra
Notion Capital led a $20 million seed round in Endra, a Stockholm‑based startup building a generative‑design platform for mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) engineers. The solution promises to automate up to 80 % of the traditionally manual MEP design workflow, shrinking project...
Gr4vy and Ecommpay to Deliver Multiple Payment Methods Through a Single Integration
Gr4vy, a cloud‑based payments orchestration platform, has partnered with global payments provider Ecommpay. The collaboration enables merchants to access a broad suite of local and international payment methods through a single integration. By combining Gr4vy’s API‑first orchestration with Ecommpay’s extensive...

C5i Launches Enterprise-Grade Platform Agent5i to Scale Business Value
C5i unveiled Agent5i, an enterprise‑grade platform that lets organizations operationalize and scale autonomous AI agents across mission‑critical workflows. The platform combines planning, intelligence, governance, and systems integration into a single lifecycle environment, from design to continuous optimization. Agent5i ships with...
Syntax Launches Construction Toolkit for SAP Solutions to Accelerate Cloud Transformation for Engineering, Construction, and Operations Firms
Syntax has launched the Construction Toolkit for SAP Solutions, a suite of four purpose‑built applications that embed construction‑specific workflows directly into SAP Cloud ERP. The toolkit includes change order management, forecasting, mobile field data capture, and progress billing, aiming to...
Liveops Unveils LiveNexus to Help Enterprises Modernize CX with Confidence
Liveops announced LiveNexus, an AI‑human orchestration platform that combines its 20,000‑plus agent network, three decades of CX data, and best‑in‑class AI into a single operating model. Debuted at Customer Contact Week 2026, the solution lets enterprises test, validate, and scale...

Securing the Future: Practical Approaches to Digital Sovereignty in Google Workspace
The recent Thales‑Google Workspace webinar highlighted practical ways to achieve digital sovereignty through client‑side encryption and Thales CipherTrust. It underscored how Google Workspace’s zero‑trust architecture, regional data storage, and external key management give organizations control over encryption keys. The discussion...
Show HN: Dotenv Mask Editor: No More Embarrassing Screen Leaks of Your .env
The Dotenv Mask Editor is a Visual Studio Code extension that provides a grid‑based interface for editing .env files while automatically masking any value longer than six characters. Masked entries appear as asterisks in the view and only reveal their...

X Copies Bluesky with a ‘Starterpacks’ Feature that Helps You Find Who to Follow
X announced it will introduce "Starterpacks," a curated list of suggested accounts modeled after Bluesky’s popular feature. The new packs will cover categories such as News, Technology, Business, and Gaming, and are compiled from X’s internal data rather than user...

Todoist’s App Now Lets You Add Tasks to Your To-Do List by Speaking to Its AI
Doist has launched Todoist Ramble, an AI‑powered voice‑to‑tasks feature that lets users create and edit to‑do items by speaking. The tool runs on Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash Live model via Vertex AI, capturing details such as deadlines, priorities and assignees in real...

Chainalysis Introduces Workflows, a No-Code Automation Solution for Enhanced Blockchain Insights
Chainalysis has launched Workflows, a no‑code automation layer inside its Data Solutions platform, allowing users without programming skills to run sophisticated blockchain analyses. The feature converts multi‑hour or multi‑day investigations into rapid, guided processes by leveraging Chainalysis’s extensive on‑chain dataset....

SaasRise Mastermind Recap - Jan 21, 2026
The SaaS Rise Mastermind recap highlighted six core operational themes for growth‑stage CEOs: AI‑driven cold outreach personalization, CTO hiring strategies, EOS implementation paths, L10 meeting structuring, technology and data management, and facilitator selection. Across each topic, the advice stresses simplifying...

Enterprise AI Adoption, Demystified: What Enterprises Learned Building with Google Cloud
Enterprise AI adoption has accelerated as confidence replaces complexity, according to a year‑long Google Cloud interview series. Leaders emphasized that existing development skills remain relevant, while new terminology often masks familiar concepts. Google’s platforms—especially GKE’s automated scaling and Cloud Run’s...

Alloy Unveils Perpetual KYB and Customer Risk Assessment
Alloy, the identity orchestration platform, has introduced its first perpetual Know Your Business (pKYB) and Customer Risk Assessment (CRA) solution across the UK and Europe. The offering builds on its earlier perpetual KYC product and uses AI‑driven continuous monitoring to...

Twilio and AEG Bring Real-Time Personalization to Live Sports and Entertainment
Twilio has deepened its multi‑year partnership with AEG, extending its customer‑engagement platform to Crypto.com Arena, the LA Kings and the AXS ticketing system. The collaboration enables real‑time, data‑driven personalization of fan communications across SMS, email and in‑app channels. By integrating...

Report: Apple Does About-Face on Siri Chatbot — and It Might Compete Directly with ChatGPT and Google
Apple is reportedly pivoting to launch a new AI‑powered Siri chatbot, dubbed Project Campos, in the upcoming iOS 27 release. The chatbot would be built on Google’s Gemini foundation models, with Apple possibly paying roughly $1 billion annually for the partnership and...

Excecutive Intelligence Podcast - Cloud ERP, AI, and Customer Priorities: Acumatica's Ali Jani and Miten Mehta Weigh In
Acumatica’s Chief Product Officer Ali Jani and Chief Engineering Officer Miten Mehta discussed the company’s "AI‑First" cloud ERP strategy on the Executive Intelligence podcast. They highlighted how legacy ERP silos, supply‑chain volatility, and inflation are driving mid‑market firms toward integrated,...
AI Company Eightfold Sued For Helping Companies Secretly Score Job Seekers
Eightfold AI, a venture‑backed hiring platform used by firms like Microsoft and PayPal, faces a California class‑action lawsuit alleging it scores job applicants without informing them. The suit claims the company violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act and state law...

The AI Coding Revolution: How Claude and AI Assistants Are Transforming Software Development in 2026
AI coding assistants such as Claude Opus 4.5 are reshaping software development, enabling a solo developer to deliver roughly 15 functional stories per day. The new workflow collapses intent, code generation, sanity‑checking, and deployment into a rapid loop, making traditional story...

What’s Actually Working in B2B SaaS Marketing in 2026
Enterprise B2B SaaS marketers in 2026 are abandoning the myth of a single magic channel and instead layering eight proven acquisition levers—retargeting, LinkedIn sponsored and thought‑leader ads, Meta lookalikes, Google search, high‑volume AI‑personalized cold email, systematic LinkedIn connections, and weekly...
Waiting for Dawn in Search: Search Index, Google Rulings and Impact on Kagi
A U.S. court ruled in August 2024 that Google is a monopoly in general search services, and the Department of Justice’s 2025 remedies require Google to provide its web index and search results to qualified competitors on non‑discriminatory terms. The ruling...

14 Ways to Use Microsoft Copilot More Effectively at Work
Microsoft Copilot is embedded across Microsoft 365, but many users see only generic, corporate‑sounding output. The article outlines 14 ready‑to‑use prompts that treat Copilot like a literal intern, guiding it with clear roles, goals, and guardrails. Examples range from pre‑meeting briefings and...

CyberNut Closes $5M Growth Capital for K-12 Security Awareness Training
CyberNut, a Miami‑based startup, closed a $5 million minority growth equity round led by Growth Street Partners to scale its K‑12 cybersecurity awareness platform. The company, which emerged from stealth in May 2024 after raising $800,000 in pre‑seed capital, already serves over...
Focus on ‘Don’ts’ to Build Systems that Know when to Say ‘No’
The article argues that AI knowledge bases must go beyond listing policies and include explicit "don’ts" to prevent harmful behavior. By integrating negative examples, decision‑logic trees, and relational knowledge graphs, organizations can give agents contextual guardrails and judgment akin to...

What SaaS Security ROI Looks Like in Practice
AppOmni released an ROI report showing SaaS security delivers tangible operational benefits quickly. Customers reported saving roughly 146 manual hours each month and a 24% reduction in audit findings after gaining visibility. The study found measurable value within two weeks...

Zucora Offers AI Powered Training Platform for Retailers
Zucora, Canada’s leading home‑furnishing protection provider, has launched Champions, an AI‑driven, mobile training platform for retail sales associates, offered free to its SmartOne partners. The platform delivers bite‑sized, gamified modules, virtual webinars, and a points‑based incentive system that rewards learning...

WebCatalog: Turn Any Website Into a Desktop App
WebCatalog lets users convert any website into a standalone desktop application for macOS and Windows, offering a centralized hub that eliminates browser tab overload. The platform bundles features such as ad and tracker blocking, app‑level passwords, cloud sync, and customizable...

Using Data Upsert to Optimize Test Data Management
Tonic.ai has added upsert capabilities to its test‑data platform, allowing teams to insert new records while updating existing ones without overwriting valuable test data. The feature supports preserving legacy fixtures, merging multiple data subsets, and retaining mock data for unreleased...
Guideline Strengthens Senior Leadership Team with Three Strategic Appointments
Guideline announced three senior leadership appointments: Steve Silvers as Chief Product Officer, Michael Laxineta as Senior Vice President of North American Data, and Vivian Herron as Senior Vice President of Sales for North America Brands and Agencies. The hires follow...
I Scanned 2,500 Hugging Face Models for Malware/Issues. Here Is the Data
Veritensor launches as a zero‑trust security solution for the AI model supply chain, offering deep static analysis and cryptographic verification of popular model formats such as Pickle, PyTorch, Keras, GGUF, and Python wheels. The tool can detect malicious code—including RCE,...

Sumo Logic Targets Data Pipeline Blind Spots with New Snowflake and Databricks Tools
Sumo Logic announced two new applications for Snowflake and Databricks that enhance real‑time visibility into data pipelines. The Snowflake Logs App provides login analytics, query performance insights, and centralized log correlation, while the Databricks Audit App offers unified monitoring of...

House Passes Historic AI Bill for US Small Businesses
The U.S. House passed the AI for Main Street Act with a 395‑14 vote, mandating AI education for small businesses via SBA training hubs. Adoption of AI among small firms rose 18% year‑over‑year, yet 65% fear compliance costs from fragmented...

Nightfall Expands Data Protection with AI Browser Security for Browsers, Endpoints and SaaS
Nightfall unveiled an AI Browser Security solution that protects browsers, endpoints, and SaaS applications from real‑time data theft driven by AI tools. The offering intercepts uploads, clipboard pastes, screenshots and other browser‑based actions that traditional DLP cannot see. Powered by...
TrueFoundry Launches TrueFailover to Automatically Reroute Enterprise AI Traffic During Model Outages
TrueFoundry unveiled TrueFailover, an autonomous resilience layer that detects AI provider outages, slowdowns, or quality drops and instantly reroutes enterprise traffic to backup models and regions. The system integrates multi‑model, multi‑region routing, degradation‑aware monitoring, and dynamic prompt adjustment to preserve...

Alkami Launches 1-Click SDK Manager
Alkami has introduced a One‑Click SDK Manager that lets financial‑institution developers self‑manage staging and production deployments. The tool consolidates validation, dependency checks, scheduling and rollout tracking into a single, guided workflow, cutting friction and accelerating time‑to‑market. By shifting deployment ownership...

LexisNexis Unveils Global Launch of AI Work Automation for Legal Professionals
LexisNexis, the data and analytics arm of RELX, launched a global commercial preview of its Protégé AI assistant for legal and business professionals. The platform delivers pre‑built, configurable workflows that automate tasks such as drafting motions, contracts, redlining, and research,...

Quantum Health Expands Solution Suite Built on a New Agentic AI Platform
Quantum Health unveiled an expanded suite of healthcare navigation solutions built on a new agentic AI platform. The technology goes beyond answering queries, proactively identifying clinical risk, initiating outreach, and coordinating care with human experts. Three tiered offerings—Quantum Signature, Quantum...

HSBC Picks Harvey AI for Lawful Good Plans
HSBC has launched the Harvey AI platform to automate high‑stakes legal analysis, targeting contract review, regulatory compliance and research. The system, trained on extensive legal precedents and financial regulations, promises machine‑speed processing that traditionally required large lawyer teams. HSBC’s rollout...