The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) signed a $300 million blanket purchase agreement with AI company Palantir Technologies to update the government agency’s digital infrastructure and address the goals of the National Farm Security Action Plan. Palantir will build upon USDA’s existing capabilities and offer software and will “secure American farmland, enhance supply chain resilience,...Read More

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Netskope (NASDAQ: NTSK), a leader in modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era, today announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to deliver performance and security for AI workflows. The new solution uses Netskope One AI Guardrails to enable enterprise deployment of high-performance...Read More

A group of unauthorized users reportedly has gained access to Anthropic’s controversial Claude Mythos Preview AI frontier model despite the AI vendor’s efforts to keep it out of public hands by limiting the organizations that can use it. Bloomberg reported that the unnamed group had tried multiple ways to gain access to the AI model...Read More

Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence published its 2026 AI Index Report this month. Most coverage focused on the US-China race and the $285 billion in US AI investment. The finding that actually matters for security leaders sits in a section that got little attention. When Stanford asked organizations what is blocking them from scaling...Read More

Targets runtime protection, governance, and visibility as enterprises scale agentic AI deployments. Check Point Software Technologies has partnered with Google Cloud to integrate its AI Defense Plane with the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, as enterprises move to deploy AI agents at scale. The integration positions Check Point as a launch partner and aims to deliver...Read More

Agentic AI , Application Security , Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Cisco’s Jeetu Patel on How Machine-Speed Threats Drive Need for AI-Led Security Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • April 20, 2026     Jeetu Patel, president and chief product officer, Cisco Artificial intelligence tools are compressing the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation to minutes, forcing...Read More

The recent Firefox 150 release includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified using Claude Mythos Preview AI. Mozilla revealed the information in a new blog post, detailing how they’ve been using an early preview of the unreleased AI model as part of Project Glasswing. Anthropic have been talking up their new Claude Mythos, which is apparently...Read More

Real Lessons from Scaling SOC Operations With AI NTT Data cybersecurity leaders share 12 practical strategies for integrating AI into the SOC to reduce incident effort by up to 70%. By Sheetal Mehta, Karthikeyan Veerappan Apr 22, 2026 NTT Data has been delivering cybersecurity services to enterprises globally for over 30 years and...Read More

Key takeaways: Finance AI chatbots have moved past support. They now trigger payments, approve loans, and process claims inside real transaction systems. PCI compliance cannot sit outside the system. It must control how data enters, moves, and exits across every layer. Most failures happen where a finance AI chatbot meets payment systems. Poor data handling...Read More

Claude Mythos Preview is Anthropic’s most powerful AI model to date, and its cybersecurity implications are serious. But Mythos is not the real problem. Other frontier AI models—including OpenAI’s GPT-5.4-Cyber and Google’s Big Sleep—have some comparable capabilities already, and more will follow. The era of AI-enabled attacks is here, and organizations cannot afford to be...Read More