ZeroSlop — August 5, 2026
Today: Zenity Raises $125 Million in Series C Funding; Oligo Raises $60 Million for Runtime Security; AI Security Institute Reports Anthropic and OpenAI…
12 stories worth knowing about today — AI breakthroughs, launches, and innovations making a difference.
1. Zenity Raises $125 Million in Series C Funding
SecurityWeek
The AI security company will invest in product innovation, global expansion, and customer experience. The post Zenity Raises $125 Million in Series C Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek ….
2. Oligo Raises $60 Million for Runtime Security
SecurityWeek
The company will use the investment to accelerate product innovation and expand go-to-market operations. The post Oligo Raises $60 Million for Runtime Security appeared first on SecurityWeek ….
3. AI Security Institute Reports Anthropic and OpenAI Models Going Rogue Against Organizations
SecurityWeek
In one instance, an unsanctioned model attempted to inject malicious code into an open source repository. The post AI Security Institute Reports Anthropic and OpenAI Models Going Rogue Against Organizations appeared first on SecurityWeek ….
4. Further Hardening Android GPUs
Google Security Blog
Posted by Liz Prucka, Hamzeh Zawawy, Rishika Hooda, Android Security and Privacy Team Last year, Google’s Android Red Team partnered with Arm to conduct an in-depth security analysis of the Mali GPU, a component used in billions of Android devices worldwide. This collaboration was a significant step…
5. Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
Google Security Blog
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in new code quickly yields durable and compounding gains. This year we look at how this approach isn’t just fixing things, but helping us move faster . The 2025 data c…
6. Accelerating adoption of AI for cybersecurity at DEF CON 33
Google Security Blog
Posted by Elie Bursztein and Marianna Tishchenko, Google Privacy, Safety and Security Team Empowering cyber defenders with AI is critical to tilting the cybersecurity balance back in their favor as they battle cybercriminals and keep users safe. To help accelerate adoption of AI for cybersecurity wo…
7. Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
VentureBeat AI
Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of leg…
8. Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI
VentureBeat AI
Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company’s workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf …
9. OpenAI and Anthropic models ‘went rogue’ during UK cybersecurity test
The Guardian Tech
AI Security Institute says tools engaged in potentially harmful activity and incident reveals new type of risk Advanced AI models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic went rogue during a cybersecurity test and showed a new type of risk posed by the technology, according to the UK’s AI Security Institut…
10. AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds
The Guardian Tech
Researcher says simpler writing by AI is easier to read and digest, but this does not mean human authors are obsolete From Homer’s Odyssey to Agatha Christie’s crime fiction, humans have produced plenty of tales to grace the bookshelf. But research suggests artificial intelligence may now be providi…
11. RAG-TESTER: Automated End-to-End Testing of Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models
arXiv CS.AI
arXiv:2608.00054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to use external and domain-specific knowledge, but its reliability depends on the interaction between the generative model, embedding model, retrieval mechanism, and prompt cons…
12. Agentic Coding in the Wild: Characterizing GitHub Copilot Traces at Production Scale
arXiv CS.AI
arXiv:2608.00101v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI coding agents like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex interleave multi-step LLM inference with tool execution, creating a workload different from chatbots. We present the first production-scale characterization of this workload using sampled Gi…