Anaconda Acquires Enkrypt AI to Secure the Trillion-Token Enterprise

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Anaconda Acquires Enkrypt AI to Secure the Trillion-Token Enterprise

2026-08-04 23:27 Last Updated At：23:40

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 4, 2026--

Anaconda Inc., the trusted foundation for AI-native development, today announced it has acquired Enkrypt AI, the AI security and compliance solution that finds and mitigates risks hidden inside enterprise AI. With Enkrypt AI, the Anaconda Platform now governs every step from a builder’s first prompt to their AI-native application running in production. Every model, agent, and MCP server along the way becomes one the enterprise can trust.

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For more than a decade, Anaconda has been building, curating, and securing the open source packages and models AI teams depend on, and that foundation now extends across the full AI-native development lifecycle. Production-grade AI orchestration is now built directly into the platform, giving teams a governed path from experimentation to production, and its recent acquisition of Kilo Code extended that foundation into the agentic engineering environments where builders work.

Now, Enkrypt AI adds the security, governance, and compliance layer that is required to help ensure the complete AI agent stack produces safe, trustworthy results at enterprise scale, from models to MCP servers. It is vendor-neutral and cloud-agnostic, built for organizations deploying autonomous AI agents. Bringing this all together, Anaconda emerges as the single, enterprise-ready foundation for building, securing, and orchestrating AI-native systems, without sacrificing builder velocity or enterprise guardrails.

For many organizations, the gap between what agents can do and what enterprises can trust them to do has become a board-level liability. As enterprises race toward trillion-token scale in their AI usage, CTOs are counting on agents to make their teams faster and more competitive. At the same time, CISOs strive for safety and security as AI agents become more autonomous. But as enterprises assign real work to autonomous agents, their attack surface grows significantly. Every model an agent runs on, every tool it calls, and every MCP server it touches introduces a potential exposed attack vector. In the past two months alone, Enkrypt AI scanned more than 268,000 tools, the individual functions that AI agents call, across 25,000 MCP servers. It found more than 143,000 vulnerabilities, affecting 73% of those servers.

Enkrypt AI extends its capabilities beyond agents to support the frontier AI models enterprises use. The company is an OpenAI compliance integration partner, giving enterprises running ChatGPT Enterprise turnkey access to its audit, compliance, and guardrail controls. The same model-agnostic approach is coming soon to enterprises relying on Anthropic.

To support today's enterprises, Enkrypt AI translates complex regulatory frameworks into controls and guardrails that are enforced automatically. This includes the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and the EU AI Act, along with industry-specific regulations, giving enterprises verifiable compliance and a reduced attack surface.

"Enterprises are running AI-native applications and services that already contain exploitable vulnerabilities and weaknesses, leaving them exposed to unknown risks they cannot easily address," said David DeSanto, CEO of Anaconda. "Enkrypt AI makes the unknown known, giving teams the security and guardrails required to get the board, CISO, and legal sign-off they need to scale systems with confidence. We're thrilled to welcome the Enkrypt AI team to Anaconda."

“There’s a difference between running AI, and running AI safely,” said Sahil Agarwal, co-founder and CEO of Enkrypt AI. “Enterprises are actively looking for a way to reduce AI model security risk, before it levels up to a boardroom problem. Trust can't be added after an agent ships, it has to be built into and run on a trusted foundation from day one. We’ve found the right home with Anaconda and are excited to join forces and make this a reality for organizations looking for a platform that delivers AI model security and safety from the start.”

Enkrypt AI remains available today with no changes to existing products, plans, or support for current users. Together, Anaconda and Enkrypt AI are accelerating the path to a unified platform for building, orchestrating, and securing AI-native systems, with details to be shared as they become available.

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Man charged with setting Spokane's largest wildfire went to prison for manslaughter in dad's death

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A man who went to prison for manslaughter in his father’s 2010 killing in Arizona has been charged with setting the largest of the wildfires that have destroyed hundreds of buildings in and around Washington state’s second-largest city and forced tens of thousands of people from their homes.

Aaron F. Farinacci, of Spokane, was arrested Monday and booked on suspicion of first-degree arson in connection with the Old Trails Fire, the biggest of the three blazes in and around the eastern Washington city, the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office said. His bond was set at $1 million.

The fires, which hadn't been contained at all as of Tuesday morning, have destroyed at least 700 buildings and forced about 67,000 people to evacuate. Authorities haven’t said what might have caused the other two blazes.

A tip from a community member who saw a nervous-looking man bent by the side of the road near some grass led authorities to Farinacci, though they released him after initial questioning, Sheriff John Nowels said Monday.

When major crimes detectives started investigating, they again identified Farinacci and determined that the fire had started where the witness had reportedly seen him, Nowels said. Farinacci had matches and a lighter when he was detained, Nowels said.

“As it happens in so many critical cases, it was citizens who were paying attention to their surroundings, being aware and willing to step up and say something that led to the relatively quick apprehension of Mr. Farinacci,” he said.

Farinacci, 37, was set to appear in court Tuesday, according to Spokane County Prosecutor Preston McCollam. A phone number couldn't be found for Farinacci and it wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf. An email was sent to the Spokane County Public Defender's office on Tuesday and a message was sent to a possible social media account for a brother.

In Mesa, Arizona, in 2010, Farinacci, then age 21, shot and killed his father during an argument about washing dishes, police said at the time. Farinacci also shot himself but survived.

He was charged with murder but pleaded guilty in 2012 to manslaughter and aggravated assault, records show. Farinacci was released from prison in 2020.

The Old Trails Fire began Saturday northwest of downtown Spokane and eventually jumped the Spokane River and tore through neighborhoods.

The three fires had burned about 16 square miles (about 41 square kilometers) by early Tuesday. After the weekend winds died down and shifted, sending smoke across the western part of the state, including the Seattle area, firefighting conditions were expected to worsen again Wednesday, with winds picking up and temperatures expected to reach the 90s (32-37 degrees Celsius), said Benjamin Cossel, a spokesperson for the fire incident management team.

On Monday, some residents who had to flee blazes over the weekend returned to find homes that had been burned to the ground. In some cases, only chimneys were left standing.

“There’s nothing to save,” Miriam Sim, 76, said as she and her husband, Daniel Sim, surveyed the ruins of the home where they had lived since 2005.

“At our age, do we want to rebuild?” her husband asked.

In one Spokane neighborhood, blackened vehicles, a boat twisted by the heat and melted plastic recycling bins remained. Across the street, lawns were still green and houses were spared, as residents continued to run hoses or sprinklers to water their properties.

“Hundreds of people have completely lost their homes and farms, and many are prohibited from returning to their homes or neighborhoods as crews continue to extinguish smoldering embers,” the state's congressional delegation wrote Monday in asking President Donald Trump to approve an expedited emergency declaration, which he did.

Cpl. Mark Gregory, a spokesperson for the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, said the county initially received nearly 300 reports of missing people, but by Monday had cleared all but 14. Those still unaccounted for were likely people who hadn't been in contact since evacuating, not people who were truly missing or in danger, authorities said.

More than 1,000 firefighters, many from out of state, arrived by Monday, and that number was expected to double in the next few days.

The fires were among dozens across the Western U.S. stretching the ability of federal, state and local agencies to fight them. At least 390 square miles (1,000 square kilometers) of land has burned across Washington, which has been dealing with a severe drought and paltry snowpack.

Authorities warned people not to fly drones near the burned areas, saying it could force them to delay aerial firefighting operations.

Angela and Wayde Deatherage, both 49, evacuated shortly after 3 p.m. Saturday with a son, grabbing a few bins of family photos and heirloom rings but not much else. Roughly 30 minutes later, their security camera was sending fire notifications to Angela’s phone.

Wayde Deatherage took some back roads and returned by early evening. He stopped at the end of the street and called his wife: “Our house is done.”

Deatherage, however, wasn't done with his neighborhood. He propped a hose at another house so it sprayed the property. That home survived.

The couple returned to their property Sunday.

“It’s just ash,” Angela Deatherage said of the home where they had lived for nearly 22 years. “It’s like our house sunk down in the basement. ... There’s just so much loss for so many people.”

Karen Faggioli, 61, figured she would be returning to her home. She recalled how other recent fires had been brought under control. But a relative texted her the bad news: Her house and three vehicles had been destroyed. A daughter lost her nearby house, too.

“Why cry? What’s crying going to do? I’ve been through so many tragedies myself,” said Faggioli, who is recovering from breast cancer. “This is nothing. Like I told my granddaughter, ‘We’re strong — and now we get all new things.’ I’m emotionally numb.”

Johnson reported from Seattle and White from Detroit. Associated Press writers Manuel Valdes in Spokane; John Hanna in Topeka, Kansas; Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire; and Martha Bellisle and Hallie Golden in Seattle contributed.