Canada's Cohere has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire AISLE, a company building autonomous systems that find and fix previously unknown software vulnerabilities. AISLE says that in its first year it found more than 500 vulnerabilities assigned CVEs across over 100 codebases, including all 12 in OpenSSL's January security release. Founder Ondrej Vlcek will lead the new Cohere Cyber unit. Cohere plans a large investment in Prague, where the AISLE team is based.

What it means: The acquisition confirms that AI-driven vulnerability discovery has moved from the lab to the market. When a system finds hundreds of real flaws in widely used libraries such as OpenSSL, the same capability can also be used by attackers. That means the time between a flaw being published and being exploited will keep shrinking. For Greek businesses, especially those covered by DORA or NIS2, the practical consequence is that patching processes have to become faster and more automated. A monthly update cycle is no longer enough when critical flaws are found and used within days. The deal also has a European angle: Cohere has already bought Germany's Aleph Alpha and is now investing in the Czech Republic, pitching sovereign AI to governments and regulated industries. For Greek software firms, that raises questions about which suppliers will be acceptable in public tenders that demand data sovereignty. It is worth noting that the deal is still a letter of intent and no financial terms have been disclosed. Security teams should already be testing AI-assisted code review on their own repositories, because the attackers will certainly be doing the same against public code.

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