The danger isn’t the AI model. It’s the agent acting on its own, and Zenity raised $125m to watch it.
THE SO WHAT
Security spend is shifting from prompts and models to what autonomous agents actually do once wired into production systems—$125m into Zenity is a clear bet on that control layer. If you’re experimenting with agents, you now need an answer to “who watches the workflows?” before you scale beyond pilots.
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