Vancouver – October 12, 2026 -- Anthropic committed $250 million across two new initiatives in the past two weeks, while OpenAI rolled out GPT-6 to every ChatGPT user. Most announcements from the two private AI developers targeted large organizations and government customers.

Santa Clara – October 12, 2026 -- HCLTech has signed a Global Premier Partnership with Anthropic and will set up a dedicated Anthropic Business Unit with a Center of Excellence (CoE) to speed enterprise deployments of Claude, with a focus on safety, cybersecurity and governance in Agentic AI.

NEW YORK – October 12, 2026 -- Driven Tech, Inc. has been named a 2026 Triple Crown Award winner by CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, after placing on three CRN rankings in the same year. The AI and cloud-native platform systems integrator also reported a combined Net Promoter Score of 92.7 and a Customer Satisfaction score of 93.4.

Three CRN lists qualify Driven for the Triple Crown

The award goes to solution providers that appear on all three of CRN's annual lists in a single year.

Austin – October 12, 2026 -- NVIDIA introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, an open source platform and reference design that applies multi-layered security controls across the software, runtime and infrastructure where AI agents operate, with CrowdStrike collaborating on the effort.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- Incidents involving fake CAPTCHA lures rose 563% in 2025, according to the CrowdStrike 2026 Global Threat Report, as adversaries including STARDUST CHOLLIMA and VOODOO BEAR adopted the social engineering technique known as ClickFix.

ClickFix turns the victim into the execution mechanism

The attack shows a fake error, CAPTCHA or system message and tells the user to copy a command into the Windows Run dialog, PowerShell or Terminal. In some variants, malicious JavaScript places the command on the clipboard directly.

United States – October 12, 2026 -- CrowdStrike's Falcon Next-Gen SIEM has been added to CISA's SIEM-as-a-service (SIEMaaS) technology stack, giving eligible federal agencies a path to modernize security operations without using their own program funding.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- CrowdStrike is adding third-party application insights and AI-enhanced remediation to Falcon Cloud Security, so security teams can identify which cloud-native applications are exposed when an external provider is compromised.

Global – – October 12, 2026 -- CrowdStrike has made Falcon Data Security for SaaS generally available, starting with Microsoft 365 coverage across SharePoint, OneDrive and Copilot, with plans to add more SaaS applications over time.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- CrowdStrike has been named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Enterprises Vendor Assessment, and is using the recognition to push its Falcon platform into protection for AI agents on the endpoint.

Global – October 12, 2026 -- CrowdStrike has joined Anthropic's Critical Infrastructure Defense Program, gaining access to Anthropic's technical guidance and frontier cybersecurity research to defend energy, water, manufacturing and transportation networks against AI-accelerated attacks.