Mergers and acquisitions continue to spread in the global security market, with companies stepping up efforts to respond to AI security threats and treating browser security as a key battleground. Zscaler bought browser security specialist SquareX, while Sophos acquired Arco Cyber and Keycard agreed to buy Anchor.dev. In AI, companies are pushing beyond large language models toward world models, alongside fresh funding, product launches and enterprise partnerships.

DeepL said on Monday it has launched the DeepL Voice API, which provides real-time speech recognition and translation. The new API lets developers integrate the functions into applications by streaming audio to receive speech recognition results in the source language and real-time translations into up to five languages. DeepL said it targets industries such as customer centres and business process outsourcing. It will also run a six-week early-access programme for voice-to-voice interpreting from mid-February.