Beacon Security, which offers an agentic security platform, raised a $13M seed and says it has "tens" of large enterprise customers including Cerebras (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/07/16…
So the upcoming NPM publish token changes are a potential lock-out scenario for people who're not using CI-based "Trusted Publishing" (TP) and cannot switch to "Staged Publishing" (SP) for reasons of practicality or feasibility.
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-
Trump has signed a little-noticed national security directive identifying
“anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as
indicators of radical left violence.
Called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7,
it’s being referred to as “NSPM-7” by administration insiders.
“This is the first time in American history that there is an
all-of-government effort to dismantle left wing terrorism,”
Trump’s homeland security advisor Stephen Miller said,
Crypto.com raised $400M from Citadel Securities in its first institutional funding round, valuing the Singapore-based crypto exchange at $20B (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/16/citadel…
Comp AI, which uses AI agents to draft security policies, collect audit evidence, conduct continuous compliance monitoring, and more, raised a $34M Series A (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/comp
KI-Update kompakt: KI-Brillen, Selbstbewusstsein, Sicherheitslücken, KI-Musik
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://ww…
Sources: Microsoft security chief Hayete Gallot, who took over in February, has prioritized AI tools, cut several hundred roles, replaced senior execs, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-new…