
Cyera Buys Oasis Security for $1B to Guard AI Agents
Cyera will pay about $1 billion for Oasis Security, its fifth 2026 acquisition, as enterprises scramble to manage the credentials of AI agents outnumbering human employees 45 to 1.
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Cyera will pay about $1 billion for Oasis Security, its fifth 2026 acquisition, as enterprises scramble to manage the credentials of AI agents outnumbering human employees 45 to 1.

We tested four enterprise LLM firewalls - Milgram, Lakera Guard, Palo Alto Prisma AIRS and Prompt Security - on prompt injection detection, data leakage prevention, enforcement and inference cost.

Microsoft says MAI-Cyber-1-Flash helps MDASH beat every rival on the CyberGym benchmark, but the score isn't on CyberGym's own public leaderboard, and Wiz topped it the same day with a lower, verified number.

OpenAI, Azure, Hive, Sightengine, Amazon Rekognition and WebPurify tested on coverage, pricing and accuracy as Perspective API shuts down.

Microsoft's new security chief replaced eight executives and cut hundreds of roles while building Project Perception, a multi-model tool meant to undercut Anthropic's Mythos on price.

Databricks signed a term sheet for a $188 billion valuation days after quietly making a Chinese open-weight model its default coding engine over Anthropic.

Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman have launched Ode, a $1.5 billion AI implementation firm betting that deploying models beats building them.

Clem Delangue says cost is pushing companies off frontier APIs and onto open models. A16z's own CIO survey shows enterprise dollars still moving the other way.

Lyzr closed a $100M Series B at a $500M valuation using its own AI agent SivaClaw to handle investor inquiries from 130+ funds - no founders needed on the road.

Ollama raises $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures as 8.9 million monthly developers and 85% of Fortune 500 companies adopt local AI model deployment.

Prime Intellect closed a $130M Series A at a $1B valuation, giving enterprises compute, RL training, and evaluation tools to build their own AI agents without relying on frontier labs.

Anthropic's Claude models are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure, running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra NVL72 racks - with vendor numbers claiming 40% faster token generation than H100.