Cohere to acquire Czech AI cybersecurity firm Aisle, set up new cyber division

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    "url": "https://betakit.com/cohere-to-acquire-czech-ai-cybersecurity-firm-aisle-set-up-new-cyber-division/",
    "title": "Cohere to acquire Czech AI cybersecurity firm Aisle, set up new cyber division - BetaKit",
    "excerpt": "Cohere is hoping to make its AI platforms more resilient to cybersecurity threats by acquiring a company that detects software vulnerabilities with AI. The news: Toronto AI company Cohere announced on Thursday that it had signed a letter of intent to acquire Prague-based AI cybersecurity company Aisle , which develops tools to identify software vulnerabilities. Aisle’s Prague headquarters, which hosts an engineering hub, will become Cohere’s Prague office, the company said. Aisle’s approximately 50 full-time employees will all join Cohere, an Aisle spokesperson told BetaKit . Aisle CEO Ondřej Vlček will join Cohere as senior vice-president of a new cybersecurity unit called Cohere Cyber, while co-founder Jaya Baloo will become Cohere’s global chief information security officer. Aisle co-founder and CTO Stanislav Fort will become Cohere’s vice-president of AI security. From the source: “There are meaningful gaps in solutions available for [cyber] defenders, and many are having to make the difficult tradeoff between securing their systems and exposing their [intellectual property] and telemetry to a provider that does “zero data-retention” performatively,” Cohere co-founder Ivan Zhang wrote in an X post. With Aisle, Cohere will “continue to empower defenders with a truly sovereign platform that they can fully trust to secure their most critical systems.” The context: AI...",
    "summary": "Cohere announced it signed a letter of intent to acquire Prague-based AI cybersecurity company Aisle.",
    "location": "Prague, Czech Republic",
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    "image_url": "https://cdn.betakit.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Aidan-Gomez-at-ALL-IN-2026.jpg",
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    "published_at": "2026-10-15T14:08:12Z",
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