
Palo Alto Networks Acquires AI IT Support Startup Console for $500 Million
Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million for Console, an AI startup that automates IT help desk tasks using autonomous agents.
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Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million for Console, an AI startup that automates IT help desk tasks using autonomous agents.

Israeli-Dutch AI startup Wonderful has raised $550 million at a $5 billion valuation as it expands its AI agent and workflow platform.

AI security startup HiddenLayer raises $100 million to expand its tools that protect AI models, agents, and workflows from emerging cyber threats.

AI training-data startup AfterQuery reportedly reaches a $3.2 billion valuation, becoming Y Combinator’s fastest startup to reach unicorn status.

Empirik launches with $21 million in funding to help infrastructure teams predict outages by analysing system changes and potential failures.

AI security startup AIR raises $50 million to help companies monitor, verify and secure the skills, plugins and tools used by AI agents.

Fambot launches an AI family assistant designed to help parents manage schedules, school updates, activities, emails, and daily logistics.

Apple is becoming an AI company through local AI hardware, agentic computing, and powerful Mac systems designed to run private AI workflows without constant reliance on the cloud.

GLM 5.3 Flash explained, the free open AI model that gained massive usage through OpenRouter with efficient design, low costs, and powerful features.

Claude Code 2.0 introduces multi-agent workflows, safer automation, browser tools, iOS testing, code reviews, and features that change AI development.

Sam Altman says OpenAI will have AGI by December, with Astra at the centre of its ambitions, raising key questions about AI capabilities, safety, and alignment.

GPT 6 Astra could challenge Opus 5.1 with stronger reasoning, coding and agentic capabilities, potentially reshaping the race among the leading AI models.
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