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Asymptote Labs Lands $5.5 Million Seed for AI Agent Runtime Security

Asymptote Labs has secured $5.5 million in seed funding to develop runtime control and visibility infrastructure for enterprise AI agents.

Tower Research Ventures led the oversubscribed round. Other participants included Lytical Ventures, 1984 Ventures, and South Park Commons.

The new capital will support product development, engineering expansion, and go-to-market efforts.

Founders Justin D’Souza (CEO) and Shukan Shah (CTO) previously built defenses at Doppel. They aim to address the monitoring blind spots security teams face when autonomous tools access sensitive corporate data.

The foundation of their approach is Beacon, an open source telemetry layer. Beacon standardizes activity from over 20 different agent harnesses, including Cursor, Codex, and Claude Code. It normalizes this telemetry into a unified data model extending the OpenTelemetry framework.

A commercial enterprise platform sits on top of this open source core to secure operations in real time. It intercepts live activity to enforce policy guardrails at both the...

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Citadel's Ken Griffin says investors are "almost certainly" in an AI bubble

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State Bank of India reports cyberattack — thousands of customer records affected, here's what we know

* State Bank of India is investigating a suspected dark web data leak affecting thousands of customer records * Exposed information reportedly includes personal details, loan-related data, and customer identifiers * Bank has launched a forensic investigation but has not yet confirmed the source or authenticity of the leak The State Bank of

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Cloudflare says it deployed default WAF mitigations for all free and paid tier customers to combat two PHP flaws, roughly nine hours ahead of public disclosure

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Responding to core PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619

PHP and Wiz Research disclosed today two critical vulnerabilities in the core PHP language runtime that can expose applications to unauthenticated remote code execution and memory disclosure. Wiz used a mix of models to identify and help remediate these vulnerabilities. Notably, Gemini 4 Argon made an invaluable contribution to finding

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Citadel's Ken Griffin says investors are "almost certainly" in an AI bubble

State Bank of India reports cyberattack — thousands of customer records affected, here's what we know

Cloudflare says it deployed default WAF mitigations for all free and paid tier customers to combat two PHP flaws, roughly nine hours ahead of public disclosure

Responding to core PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619