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Calero has added AI consumption, cost and adoption management to its SaaS management platform, reflecting the spread of consumption-based pricing in business software. The new functions are intended to help organisations track AI use outside formal procurement processes, monitor token- and quota-based spending, and assess whether AI subscriptions are being used.

DNSFilter has published survey findings showing a gap between executive and practitioner views of AI and cybersecurity risk. The study points to a divide over resilience, incident reporting and governance. The survey of 400 IT and cybersecurity professionals at manager level and above found that 73.9% of executives believe their organisations could maintain critical operations during a 72-hour cyberattack. That compares with 47.5% of IT managers and 50% of cybersecurity professionals.

Plus, everything you might have missed here at SonicWall over the past month. September is finally here. And, if you aren't trapped in this eternal heatwave with many of us, maybe you're starting to experience some fall weather? The past month has, as usual, been an interesting one for cybersecurity. We're covering the growing Medusa ransomware threat. News and events from SonicWall. And does your jar of marinara sauce want to hear you complain about traffic?

Congratulations to the enterprise AI company that just raised another nine-figure round to solve a problem software is supposed to solve by itself: getting humans to use the product. You know the one. Won't name it. Don't have to. You've read the press release - "autonomous," "agentic," "category-defining" in paragraph one, and then, a few paragraphs down, where the money is actually going: hiring an army of engineers to sit inside customer offices and manually make the "autonomous" thing behave.

FIS has won core banking mandates from a newly formed US bank with more than USD $100 billion in assets and from five new bank charters, reflecting fresh demand from lenders launching, merging and upgrading their banking systems. The mandates span three areas of activity in the US banking market: de novo bank formation, consolidation among established lenders and technology upgrades at large institutions. FIS signed five de novo banks in the first half of the year.

In-branch account opening has become MANTL's highest-volume growth channel in 2026, according to Alkami. More than 1 million applications have been booked through the in-branch platform to date. The milestone points to a shift among US banks and credit unions as they add digital account-opening tools to physical branches instead of treating online and branch channels separately.

Mediaocean has launched Mediaocean AI Ventures, an initiative to invest in AI startups in the advertising market. The new investment arm will focus on early-stage and growth-stage companies across advertising and marketing technology, pairing funding with access to Mediaocean's software platforms and industry network. The venture initiative has strategic backing from CVC Capital Partners, TA Associates and Eterna Growth Partners.

Integrity360 has rebranded Advantus360 in Canada, folding the Calgary business into the wider group after acquiring it earlier this year. The move is the latest step in the cyber security company's North American expansion, with Calgary positioned as its base for further growth in Canada and the US. Founded in 2015, Advantus360 built its business in Western Canada around organisations with complex cyber security needs.

Freehand has appointed Krshna Prashant as its first US marketing lead following its recent US$75 million seed funding round. Based in San Francisco, Prashant is the supply-chain AI company's first marketing hire in the US. She will build Freehand's brand, narrative and go-to-market function as it expands its presence among large corporate customers.

Salesforce has unveiled Koa, its first CRM reasoning model, built on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super. The launch was announced on stage at Dreamforce by NVIDIA Founder and Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang and Salesforce Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff. Koa was developed by post-training NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super on a proprietary synthetic dataset drawn from nearly three decades of enterprise CRM deployments.