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Azoma wants to help brands win the AI shopping race. See the pitch deck that helped it raise $11.2 million.

AUSTIN, Texas & BERLIN, October 21, 2026--NVIDIA GTC 2026--CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to extend AI-native security from software to silicon.

RegASK Expands AI Agents to Automate Regulatory Action Across 160+ Markets

Cisco is exploring DPU-based security to help enterprises scale AI agents, control access and data flows, isolate inference workloads, and improve visibility.

NSSTS Targets Coding Tools With 8 New Policy Areas [2026]

White House NSSTS strategy puts software supply chains, AI coding tools, and export controls under 8 national-security policy areas.

Open-Source llm-d 1.0 Hits Production: IBM Research Confirms 11.5× AI Inference Cost Drop

llm-d distributed LLM inference hit version 1.0 today at PyTorch Conference, with IBM Research reporting $0.11 per million tokens at production scale - roughly 11.5 times lower than commercial API pricing. Google Cloud, AWS, and Tesla also confirmed production results across NVIDIA, AMD, and Google

CoreWeave Physical AI Launchables Simplify Development

The two companies are trying to solve the AI agent security conundrum with multiple layers of real-time security checks.

Schwab and JPMorgan are blocking outside AI agents as RBC weighs a similar move

Securing AI Agents Across the AI Factory

BBVA has announced plans to work with NVIDIA to explore the potential of the OpenShell Reference Architecture to enable new approaches to AI agent safety, security and governance.

Nvidia bets open models can give enterprise AI agents the context they’re missing

Enterprise AI Startup AuxoAI Nets $20.7M To Strengthen Its FDE Team

It will use the funds to deepen strategic ecosystem partnerships, expand its talent pool of FDEs, and invest in tech capabilities.

BBVA explores new approaches to AI agent security with NVIDIA