F5 has announced its intent to acquire enterprise AI security company CalypsoAI, whose award-winning platform brings real-time threat defense, red teaming at scale, and data security to enterprises racing to deploy generative and agentic AI. These capabilities will be integrated into the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP) to create the most complete solution for securing AI inference.

The deal is worth $180 million, in purchase consideration financed primarily with cash.

“AI is redefining enterprise architecture—and the attack surface companies must defend,” said François Locoh-Donou, President and CEO of F5. “Traditional firewalls and point solutions can’t keep up. The addition of CalypsoAI will give enterprises the confidence to innovate faster and better protect critical data as they rely on F5 to deliver and secure apps, APIs, and AI models across their environment.”

F5 is aiming to tackle this need with CalypsoAI’s adaptive AI security capabilities that deliver proactive and continuous AI protection regardless of model or cloud, including:

  • Adversarial threat protection: Protection against new AI threats like prompt injection and jailbreak attacks with real-time threat management. Proactive red-teaming tests against more than 10,000 new attack prompts each month to produce a risk score.
  • Secure data: Guardrails detect and prevent sensitive data leakage and policy violations at runtime and audit AI interactions across models.
  • Unified visibility and governance: Centralized observability, policy control, and audit logs make it easier to meet GDPR/EU AI Act requirements across SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

“Enterprises want to move fast with AI while reducing the risk of data leaks, unsafe outputs, or compliance failures,” said Donnchadh Casey, CEO of CalypsoAI. “Our customers rely on us to pressure test AI systems at scale, set inference layer guardrails that adapt as models change, and to gain visibility and auditability across their AI estate. F5 and CalypsoAI are more than the sum of their parts: high performance application delivery and AI security that enable businesses to deliver innovation faster without increasing risk.”

CIQ to Accelerate AI and HPC Workloads with NVIDIA CUDA

CIQ, the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux and a leader in high-performance software infrastructure, today announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA to integrate the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit within its commercial offerings.

NVIDIA CUDA is NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform and programming model that powers major AI and scientific computing breakthroughs. The CUDA Toolkit includes NVIDIA’s optimized libraries and development tools used to develop and deploy NVIDIA accelerated workloads.

CIQ’s Rocky Linux platform, enabled with CUDA, addresses critical deployment challenges by providing a fully tested, validated, and optimized stack available immediately. This eliminates the need for manual installations or custom integrations that traditionally create deployment delays and misconfiguration risks. Organizations can now unlock the full performance of NVIDIA accelerated computing from development to production, whether training large language models, running inference pipelines, or executing advanced scientific simulations.

“The CIQ and NVIDIA collaboration is all about empowering users,” said Bjorn Hovland, Chief Operating Officer at CIQ. “By delivering GPU-ready infrastructure with Rocky Linux, we’re eliminating deployment complexity and helping customers extract maximum machine performance and efficiency from day one.”

As part of this collaboration, CIQ will provide prebuilt Rocky Linux with CUDA images through its registries and major cloud marketplaces. These environments ensure consistency, portability, and compliance, streamlining deployment across the entire GPU development lifecycle for organizations in regulated and performance-critical sectors.