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The Visa AI cyber defence system is now partly open to the public, and the payments company's technology chief says the decision grew out of what AI models turned up when they were pointed at Visa's own code. Rajat Taneja, the company's president of technology, told Reuters in an interview published on September 29 that the findings were a sobering lesson. He said defending against machine-driven attacks will take machine-driven defences. The code itself is not new. Visa first published the tool, called the Visa Vulnerability Agentic Harness (VVAH), on GitHub in June 2026, and the company says it has since been downloaded by tens of thousands of developers worldwide. What the Reuters interview adds is Visa's own account of why it chose to share the system, and how its leadership now rea...

Ema AI employees just picked up a $77 million vote of confidence from investors who believe large companies are done testing AI agents and ready to put them to work. The Mountain View startup closed a Series B round led by Bengaluru-based Creaegis. Existing backers Accel, Section 32, and Prosus all returned with significantly bigger checks than they wrote the first time. The round brings Ema's total funding to $140 million and comes just two years after the company launched out of stealth. The company says its valuation has more than quadrupled since its last raise in 2024, though it has not disclosed the exact figure. Every dollar arrived as primary equity. No debt was involved, and no existing shares changed hands. How Ema AI Employees Actually Get Work Done Most AI products sold t...

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Visa Explains Why It Made Its AI Cyber Defence Tool Public

Ema AI Employees Land $77 Million as Enterprises Move Past the Pilot Stage