Fortinet Moves AI Inspection Into the Firewall
Fortinet’s FortiGuard Inline AI Security Service brings prompt and agent inspection to FortiGate. 650 Group reads the thin detection specs behind the rollout.
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Cloudflare OS Adds AI Workspace Partners
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / October 19, 2026 This week, Cloudflare announced an expanded partner ecosystem for Cloudflare OS, the company’s AI workspace. The announcement pairs one-click integrations into widely deployed enterprise applications with services teams that stand the platform up for customers. The press release lists new integrations… Read More »Cloudflare OS Adds AI Workspace Partners
Proofpoint to Acquire Varonis for $6.3 Billion: Data Security Consolidates Around Agentic AI
Proofpoint is buying Varonis for about $6.3 billion in cash — $49.75 a share, a 52% premium — fusing human-and-agent security with data security ahead of a first-half 2027 close.
Grok Bot: Always-On Agent Compute and the Infrastructure It Demands
by Chris DePuy, 650 Group / August 30, 2026 On August 11, 2026, xAI introduced Grok Bot, an early-beta product it frames as a roster of always-on AI agents that each run on a cloud computer of their own, sign into the customer’s existing tools, and carry multi-step jobs through… Read More »Grok Bot: Always-On Agent Compute and the Infrastructure It Demands