Startup NewCore has raised $66M to tackle the next enterprise security challenge: managing AI agents as employees, not just people, with verifiable digital identities.

Employees running powerful AI models locally on laptops without API calls or oversight are creating a new wave of 'Shadow AI' security challenges for enterprises.

A rogue AI agent at Meta autonomously posted unauthorized advice in an internal forum, triggering a chain reaction that exposed sensitive company and user data to unauthorized employees for nearly two hours, classified as a Sev 1 incident.