All news with #acquisition tag

🚀 Today Cloudflare announced that key members of Ensemble AI are joining the company to accelerate AI infrastructure work and help developers run powerful models efficiently at scale. Ensemble AI developed methods like NdLinear and NdLinear-LoRA to preserve model structure while reducing parameters and compute, complementing quantization and vector quantization. The hire strengthens Cloudflare Workers AI and advances efforts to lower inference costs, improve GPU utilization, and enable global, serverless model deployment.

🚀 Google Cloud is expanding its partner ecosystem to accelerate the Agentic Enterprise with new funding, technologies, and integrations. The company announced a $750 million innovation fund and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform with an Agent Gallery to surface vetted partner-built agents. It is deepening technical alliances with global consulting firms, embedding forward deployed engineers with integrators, and extending Gemini across major SaaS platforms to speed enterprise adoption.

🎉 Google Cloud today announced its 2026 Partner of the Year winners, honoring partners who used Google Cloud technologies to deliver transformative customer outcomes. Winners span global and country-level awards across categories such as Artificial Intelligence, Data, Security, Infrastructure Modernization, Google Workspace, and more. The awards recognize innovation, collaboration, and measurable impact in industries worldwide. Congratulations to the partners driving progress and customer success.

🔐 Google has completed its acquisition of Wiz, which will join Google Cloud while retaining the Wiz brand. The combined offering delivers an AI-powered cloud security platform that unifies visibility across cloud, hybrid, and multicloud environments to prevent, detect, and respond to threats. Customers can expect continued support for AWS, Azure, Oracle, and on-premises systems, along with integrations to Google Threat Intelligence and Mandiant consulting. The acquisition is positioned to accelerate AI-native security capabilities, simplify code-to-cloud defenses, and reduce operational toil for security teams.

🔐OpenAI has acquired Promptfoo, a startup that provides open source tools to test and evaluate LLMs and AI agents. The deal aims to close a growing security gap in agentic AI by integrating automated testing, red‑teaming and traceability directly into OpenAI Frontier. Promptfoo's suite — used by over 25% of Fortune 500 firms — will remain open source. The move follows warnings from security advisors about 'human‑language malware' and complements OpenAI's recent security hires and tools.

🔒 OpenAI said it will acquire AI testing startup Promptfoo to strengthen security checks for AI agents as enterprises deploy autonomous systems in business workflows. Promptfoo’s tools let developers test LLM applications against adversarial prompts, including prompt injection and jailbreak attempts, and evaluate whether models follow safety and reliability guidelines. OpenAI plans to integrate Promptfoo into OpenAI Frontier and to continue developing the open-source project while expanding enterprise capabilities.

🔒 Palo Alto Networks has completed its $25 billion acquisition of Israel-based CyberArk, integrating privileged access management into its core platform strategy. The deal aims to extend privileged controls across human, machine, and AI identities to reduce standing privileges, limit lateral movement, and accelerate breach response. Palo Alto will continue offering standalone CyberArk while pursuing deeper integration, though analysts warn of transition friction and potential licensing or vendor lock-in.

🔒 The European Commission has given unconditional approval for Google's $32 billion acquisition of cloud security vendor Wiz, removing a major regulatory hurdle. The clearance lets Google Cloud fold Wiz's multi‑cloud security capabilities into its stack while regulators found no meaningful competition harm. Analysts warn the tie-up could accelerate hyperscaler-led security consolidation, raise long-term lock-in risks, and shift incentives away from cloud neutrality.

🚀 Palo Alto Networks has reworked its NextWave partner program and unified it with a value exchange framework to simplify engagement, reward impact and accelerate growth in 2026. The update emphasizes predictability, repeatability and profitability, expanding enablement, labs, demos, quoting APIs and targeted rebates. Partners gain clearer paths for specialization, delivery and managed services while customers benefit from more consistent, integrated AI-driven security outcomes.

🔒 Palo Alto Networks has partnered with the RAF Association to modernize its cybersecurity with a secure-by-design, zero trust architecture. The engagement consolidates legacy controls into a unified platform using Prisma SASE, Cortex XDR and Strata Cloud Manager with AIOps to improve visibility, automate operations and protect sensitive beneficiary data. The initiative prioritizes operational resilience and scalable, cost‑efficient support.

🤝 Cloudflare has acquired Human Native, a UK AI data marketplace that converts multimedia into licensed, structured datasets for AI developers. The team will help Cloudflare expand tools like AI Crawl Control, Pay Per Crawl and the AI Index, enabling publishers to expose structured updates and control access. It emphasizes licensed, high-quality data, creator compensation and greater control over how content is used by AI systems.

🔒 CrowdStrike will acquire Israel-based Seraphic Security to add browser-native runtime protections to its Falcon platform, with the deal expected to close by April. The integration aims to correlate Falcon’s endpoint telemetry and threat intelligence with deep, in-session browser signals to govern user actions, data flows, and extensions. CrowdStrike said the move addresses gaps left by traditional EDR and network controls, and will also work with planned SGNL continuous authorization capabilities to enable dynamic, session-level permissions.

🔒 CrowdStrike announced intent to acquire Seraphic to extend the Falcon platform into browsers and enforce security within live sessions across Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox and agentic browsers on managed and unmanaged devices. The integration promises in-session zero-trust enforcement, protection for AI interactions, randomized JavaScript engine defenses, and agentless-style controls for contractors. Combined with SGNL’s continuous authorization technology, CrowdStrike aims to deliver unified, identity-driven browser security without forcing browser replacement.

🔐 CrowdStrike will acquire identity security startup SGNL for $740 million to add real-time, risk-aware authorization that grants or revokes access based on current signals rather than static permissions. The deal, expected to close in CrowdStrike’s fiscal Q1 ending April 30, will be paid mostly in cash with some stock subject to vesting. SGNL’s technology layers with existing identity systems from Okta, Microsoft, and AWS, evaluating contextual signals — user behavior, device posture, and threat intelligence — to enforce continuous authorization and address rising machine-identity and AI-agent risks.

🔒 CrowdStrike announced an agreement to acquire SGNL to enhance identity-first security across its Falcon platform. The acquisition will integrate SGNL into Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security, providing continuous, context-aware authorization for human, non-human, and AI agent identities. SGNL’s runtime enforcement layer will ingest Falcon risk signals and centralize telemetry to enable just-in-time access, replacing standing privileges with dynamic, risk-aware permissions to reduce the identity attack surface.

🔒 ServiceNow will pay $7.8bn to acquire OT and IoT security specialist Armis, aiming to extend and enhance its security, risk and operational technology portfolios. The all-cash deal, expected to close in the second half of 2026, is positioned to more than triple ServiceNow’s security market opportunity. ServiceNow said Armis telemetry and asset insights will be integrated into its AI Control Tower to bolster AI governance and deliver automated remediation at scale. Executing on integration — notably tying Armis data into ServiceNow’s CMDB and workflows — is seen as the critical determinant of value realization.

🔐 ServiceNow announced a $7.75 billion cash acquisition of cybersecurity vendor Armis, its largest deal to date, aiming to integrate device and asset visibility into its AI-driven workflow platform. Executives say the purchase will create an end-to-end security exposure and operations stack that ties discovery, governance, and remediation across IT, OT, IoT and edge. Analysts welcomed the move but warned it may push organizations from best-of-breed tools toward suite consolidation, and that full integration will take time.

🛡️ November 2025 saw a flurry of cybersecurity acquisitions as major vendors raced to embed AI, observability and exposure management across their portfolios. Deals included Palo Alto Networks' $3.35bn purchase of Chronosphere, LevelBlue's completion of its Cybereason acquisition, and Bugcrowd's buy of AI app-security firm Mayhem. Other moves saw Safe Security acquire Balbix, Zscaler buy SPLX, and Arctic Wolf agree to acquire UpSight to bolster ransomware prevention. Collectively these transactions accelerate AI-driven automation and resilience across cloud, endpoint and software security.

🚀 Replicate is now part of Cloudflare, bringing its model packaging and serving tools into Cloudflare’s global network. Since 2019 Replicate has shipped Cog and a hosted inference platform that made running research models accessible and scaled during the Stable Diffusion surge. Joining Cloudflare pairs those abstractions with network primitives like Workers, R2, and Durable Objects to enable edge model execution, instant serverless pipelines, and streaming integrations such as WebRTC while supporting developers and researchers.

🔐 ServiceNow is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire identity-security startup Veza for more than $1 billion, a deal that could be announced next week. The move would pair ServiceNow's recent AI automation capabilities from Moveworks with Veza's Authorization Graph to map and govern permissions for human and machine identities. For customers, the acquisition aims to close trust and governance gaps around AI agents and non-human accounts, though integration, licensing, and standalone availability questions remain.