CrowdStrike acquires Fiddler AI and Dreadnode for roughly $495 million combined
CrowdStrike is purchasing AI observability startup Fiddler AI for about $400 million and AI security-testing startup Dreadnode for roughly $95 million, per the Wall Street Journal. Fiddler AI will be integrated into CrowdStrike's Falcon platform as Falcon Observe, while Dreadnode's automated testing tools aim to catch flaws in AI models and agents before deployment.