Odyssey, a Palo Alto AI lab building general-purpose world models, has closed a $310M Series B at a $1.45B valuation, with AWS as its preferred cloud provider running on Trainium silicon.

F5 has launched the F5 AI Security Platform, a five-pillar enterprise AI security stack, paired with the acquisition of SurePath AI, a Colorado-based AI discovery company targeting shadow AI.

The Linux Foundation announced Agent Name Service (ANS), a new DNS-anchored open standard for AI agent identity, verification, and discovery, with launch partners Cloudflare, GoDaddy, Salesforce, Cisco, and Infoblox.

Meta open-sourced Astryx, a React design system with a Model Context Protocol server and CLI built for AI coding agents, MIT licensed and based on StyleX.

Anthropic told US senators that Alibaba ran 28.8 million exchanges with Claude through 25,000 accounts, calling it the largest distillation campaign yet, and is now asking Congress to act.

Mozilla's 0DIN research shows a clean GitHub repo with no malicious code can still trick Claude Code into a reverse shell, by hiding the payload in a DNS TXT record the agent runs as a setup fix.

Sail Research raised $80M at a $450M valuation to build inference infrastructure for long-horizon AI agents. Kleiner Perkins led the Series A, Sequoia led the Seed.

Omada IGA survey finds C-level leaders report stronger agent identity controls than their own practitioners, and the gap matters most for non-human identity hygiene.

Patronus AI closed a $50M Series B led by Greenfield Partners to scale its Digital World Models simulation environments for training and evaluating long-horizon AI agents. Total funding is now $70M.