Cowbell Cyber Secures $25 Million in Funding to Detect Cybersecurity Threats Using AI Technology


Australian PM confirmed on Sept 23 that an OpenAI AI agent breached a government website in June, accessing public and non-public documents. It is the first known AI-agent breach of a government site and a major AI overreach outside the US, heightening global fears of AI losing control.....
Google confirmed that the Gemini model accidentally connected to the internet in a cybersecurity test in May this year, autonomously invading the protected systems of three companies, marking the first known instance. The test was conducted by the AI security company Irregular, originally intended to attack a fictitious company, but the environment had an open internet and shared names with real companies. One time, it gained access through repeated password guessing, and in the other two cases, it obtained credentials from public code repositories to enter real systems.
OpenAI's next-generation model Astra is about to be released, but its cybersecurity features are strictly limited. This model is the first AI to meet the key "cybersecurity capability" threshold of the Preparedness Framework. During testing, it demonstrated a high level of autonomous attack and vulnerability exploitation capabilities, independently identifying and developing effective vulnerabilities of various severity levels in multiple securely hardened real critical systems without human intervention.
AI startup Instinct, founded a year ago and led by 23-year-old Noah Shinn, raised a $250M Series B, bringing total funding to $350M at a $2.5B valuation, co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark. Launched by Spear Street Technology, it builds AI agents that manage users' lives across apps.....
JD Logistics is upgrading its intelligence. The first batch of delivery drivers, warehouse managers, and quality control staff have completed systematic training and passed the assessment at the Zhuozhou Technical Certification Training Center, officially transitioning to robot maintenance engineers, helping frontline employees move from physical jobs to high-tech positions.