Cohere Moves to Buy AI Cybersecurity Startup AISLE

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• Cohere signed a letter of intent to acquire San Francisco-based AI cybersecurity startup AISLE, per Investing.com; deal terms and price were not disclosed. AISLE, which uses AI to detect software vulnerabilities, was co-founded in 2025 by former Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek along with co-founders from Google DeepMind and Anthropic, and has an engineering hub in Prague; in its first year it found more than 500 new bugs in widely used software, including 12 vulnerabilities in OpenSSL.
• The acquisition is meant to add cybersecurity capabilities to the business Cohere is forming through its merger with Germany's Aleph Alpha (a separate roughly $20 billion deal), strengthening security and threat-detection for enterprise and public-sector customers who can deploy it directly on their own systems, and expanding Cohere's European footprint. Cohere said defensive capabilities must advance as quickly as AI systems themselves.

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