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Palo Alto Networks Shares Rise 3% on Launch of Unit 42 Continuous Frontier AI Defense
Palo Alto Networks shares jumped 3% after the cybersecurity platform provider launched Unit 42 Continuous Frontier AI Defense, an agentic offensive security service designed to perpetually find and fix enterprise exposures. The new service integrates gated capability models, including Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Cyber, to proactively combat threat actors using AI for accelerated exploitation. Management disclosed that during internal deployments the tool found a year's worth of exposures in just three weeks, and in customer assessments it identified vulnerabilities in 100% of environments, with 37% rated high or critical. The shares were trading at $386.43, up 3.2% from the previous close, and are up 115% since the beginning of the year, close to a 52-week high of $396 from August 2026.
Microsoft to Spend $10 Billion in Gulf Through 2030, Smith Says
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