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Elastic’s AlertZero puts AI agents to work on security alert overload

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Enterprise search and security company Elastic N.V. today introduced AlertZero, a team of specialized artificial intelligence agents for security operations.

Built into Elastic Security, the agents take on alert triage, threat hunting and forensic analysis, and each customer decides how much of that work runs without a person signing off.

AlertZero is aimed at the problem of alert overload. Security operations center teams have long had more detections coming in than analysts to work through them, and false positives keep adding to the queue. Elastic argues that attackers’ use of AI is now making the problem worse.

The company’s example is the July attack on Hugging Face Inc. by OpenAI Group PBC models that had escaped a testing environment. Elastic said the intrusion generated more than 17,000 events over four days. According to Elastic, security tools could detect each signal on its own, but the hard part was connecting them to see the full attack.

Connecting those signals is the job Elastic has given four groups of agents it calls Watches. Each one runs on its own triggers or schedule and writes what it finds to a shared investigation record. Triage Watch enriches incoming alerts and decides which ones are real, closing out the noise with a written reason.

Threat hunting runs continuously under Hunt Watch, guided by threat research. Detection Watch learns from the other three and proposes tuning for noisy detection rules or new ones to cover gaps. Nothing changes in a rule without approval. Forensics Watch handles malware analysis and the tracing of exploit paths, specialist work that Elastic says many security teams lack the staff for.

Customers decide how much autonomy each Watch gets, with the setting adjustable down to individual tasks. Elastic Security Labs said in a blog post that even at the most autonomous setting, an inconclusive assessment still needs a person’s decision. Model choice sits with the customer too, and analysts can switch models partway through an investigation as the evidence shifts.

Mike Nichols, general manager of security at Elastic, said the people who built AlertZero “have sat in the SOC analyst’s seat.” Each Watch lines up with a core security operations job, he said, and the aim was to let teams take on only as much automation as they can oversee.

AlertZero builds on updates Elastic released in late July ahead of the Black Hat USA conference. Among them was a reworked Attack Discovery that investigates alerts before flagging an attack, and that tool now runs inside Triage Watch. Nichols discussed the “Alert Zero” goal behind those updates in an interview with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio (below).

Customers can add workflows of their own using the same Agent Builder skills and Elastic Workflows automation the company used to build AlertZero. The release will be available to Elastic Security customers as a technical preview on Elastic Cloud and in self-managed and air-gapped deployments.

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OpenAI's $70B Run Rate Meets AI's Infrastructure Challenge

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OpenAI is expecting to reach or exceed US$70 billion in annualized revenue by the end of the year, according to people familiar with the matter, driven largely by growth in its enterprise business.

The ChatGPT maker’s annualized revenue was roughly US$50 billion at the end of last month, the people said. The figure represents a projection of OpenAI’s yearly sales based on a shorter period.

The company shared the numbers with investors as part of discussions for its latest fundraising effort, said the people, requesting anonymity to discuss private information.

The company is in talks to raise US$30 billion or more at a US$1.4 trillion valuation before the new money, Bloomberg first reported last month.

OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI firms have often touted their annualized revenue as a key growth metric. However, not all companies measure it the same way. Anthropic’s annualized revenue hit US$65 billion by the end of July, Bloomberg News previously reported.

Some outlets reported last month that OpenAI was already projecting nearly US$70 billion in annualized revenue, based on investor estimates.

The Financial Times reported on Thursday that the discrepancy came from OpenAI’s investors attempting to calculate OpenAI’s annualized revenue using the same methods as rival Anthropic PBC, which accounts for sales from cloud providers differently.

On Thursday, tech shares led losses in the S&P 500 after reports that OpenAI’s annualized revenue would be lower than some previous estimates. The NASDAQ 100 fell 1.4 percent. A gauge of chip giants sank 3.4 percent.

While OpenAI has pushed back plans for an initial public offering until at least next year, citing its focus on AI safety efforts, Anthropic is expected to sell shares in an IPO as soon as next month.

OpenAI is in talks with multiple investment funds from the United Arab Emirates, including Abu Dhabi-based MGX, to help anchor its new financing round, Bloomberg has reported.

The company most recently raised a US$122 billion round in March at an US$852 billion valuation, including the money.

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Anthropic-linked $366m data center project filed for in Cedar Creek, Texas

Credited to Data Center Dynamics · datacenterdynamics.com · 7h ago

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First building will be located on Earl Callahan Road

A proposal for a $366 million data center project in Cedar Creek, Texas, has been filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

Dubbed Project Longhorn - Building One, the data center will span some 498,165 sq ft (46,281 sqm) and be located at Earl Callahan Road, near Walter Hoffman Road, in Cedar Creek, Bastrop County.

Construction is aiming to begin on November 30, 2026, and be completed by the end of January 2028.

Representatives for Black Chamber, Pacifico Energy, and Anthropic did not respond to BizJournals' request for comments on a 2,842-acre gas-fired electric generation facility to support a major data center campus in the Cedar Creek area of Bastrop County, which AI lab Anthropic is reportedly in talks to lease.

At full buildout, the project is expected to offer 710MW of "site-rated redundant power using simple-cycle natural gas turbines" that will support 490MW of IT capacity.

The project is located near EdgeConneX's major campus in the area, for which four more data center buildings were filed in August 2026. In total, EdgeConneX’s presence in Bastrop County could total more than a dozen buildings across more than 1,500 acres at full build-out. At least part of the capacity is set to be leased to AI cloud firm CoreWeave.

Bastrop County is located outside of Austin, Texas.

Texas as a whole has seen a massive influx of data center projects in recent years, but has begun to resist the tidal wave. In September, Governor Greg Abbott halted all new data center permits from the state’s environmental agency until it completes a large-scale audit of facilities seeking to connect to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid. ERCOT aims to complete the audit by December.

Despite this, the new filing in Cedar Creek seems to suggest that the project is moving ahead.

Pacifico Energy is the energy arm of investment firm Pacifico Group. Based out of San Juan, California, the company has interests in both renewable and fossil fuel-based energy projects. Earlier this year, the company secured a 7.65GW air permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for its planned 5GW GW Ranch project in West Texas.

Black Chamber Partners is part of a private equity firm with a focus on data center development, typically in Northern Virginia. The group was founded in 2019 and focuses on developing build-to-suit powered shells for hyperscalers.