Netomi raises $110 million as Accenture and Adobe bet on AI for customer service

Netomi, the San Francisco-based startup building AI systems for enterprise customer service, said Thursday that it has raised $110 million in new funding in a round led by Accenture Ventures, with par [...]

Hybrid cloud security must be rebuilt for an AI war it was never designed to fight

Hybrid cloud security was built before the current era of automated, machine-based cyberattacks that take just milliseconds to execute and minutes to deliver devastating impacts to infrastructure. The [...]

Here are all the games Microsoft added to Game Pass today, including a whole lot of Assassin's Creed

Xbox owners got a bit of a nasty surprise thanks to Microsoft’s sudden announcement today that the monthly cost of a Game Pass Ultimate subscription is getting a 50 percent increase. The new $30 mon [...]

Former MoviePass head pleads guilty to securities fraud

“A Florida man pleaded guilty today,” began a Department of Justice press release published on Tuesday. In this case, the ever-infamous Florida Man is none other than Ted Farnsworth, the former CE [...]

Vercel breach exposes the OAuth gap most security teams cannot detect, scope or contain

One employee at Vercel adopted an AI tool. One employee at that AI vendor got hit with an infostealer. That combination created a walk-in path to Vercel’s production environments through an OAuth gr [...]

Accenture bets on General Robotics to unify factory AI across robot brands

In short: Accenture Ventures has invested in General Robotics, whose GRID platform provides a unified AI intelligence layer across 40+ robots from different manufacturers including FANUC, Flexiv, and [...]

Microsoft takes Agent 365 out of preview as shadow AI becomes an enterprise threat

Microsoft last week took Agent 365, its management platform for AI agents, out of preview and into general availability — a move that signals the software giant believes the governance challenge aro [...]

How recruitment fraud turned cloud IAM into a $2 billion attack surface

A developer gets a LinkedIn message from a recruiter. The role looks legitimate. The coding assessment requires installing a package. That package exfiltrates all cloud credentials from the developer� [...]

Echelon's AI agents take aim at Accenture and Deloitte consulting models

Echelon, an artificial intelligence startup that automates enterprise software implementations, emerged from stealth mode today with $4.75 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, targeti [...]