Tailscale invests in sovereign AI
Patricia Prewitt leads the new General Manager role. The initiative ensures secure infrastructure integration without vendor lock-in.
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Identity-based secure connectivity platform
tailscale.com- Headquarters
- Toronto, Canada
- Founded year
- 2019
- Company type
- Private company
- Number of employees
- 350–500
- Industry
- Software
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Latest news about Tailscale
In short: Tailscale expanded its Aperture AI gateway, neared 40,000 paid business customers, and tackled a Hugging Face security incident.
Company announcements
Tailscale has failed to prevent Hugging Face intrusion
An AI agent used a stolen credential to enroll 181 nodes into Hugging Face's tailnet. No Tailscale vulnerability was exploited, but Tailscale accepts fault.
Tailscale hires Mike Shaver as VP of Engineering
He will lead engineering to maintain product quality and scale as the company grows.
Tailscale introduces Aperture CLI for easier AI agent experimentation
It configures coding agents with LLM endpoints via Aperture gateway, supporting bridge mode for devices without Tailscale client.
Media coverage
Tailscale expands from a VPN provider to a complete network connection platform
At its Tailscale Up conference, Tailscale announced several important updates, transitioning from a VPN provider to a comprehensive connectivity platform. New services include: DNS filtering service in collaboration with Control D, privileged access management product Tailscale PAM (based on acquired Border0 technology), officially released AI gateway Aperture (providing authentication and access control for AI agents), browser access tool Aperture Plus that requires no VPN installation, and open-source mesh network Tailcat. This...
Tailscale open-sources Tailcat: No login, no IP configuration, two machines directly establish a tunnel
TechBeat Beating AI Flash News, Tailscale has open-sourced Tailcat. Two machines can connect directly by obtaining an address string, without registering an account or joining the same Tailnet. It continues to use Tailscale's WireGuard encryption, NAT traversal, and DERP relay, but does not require a Tailscale account and control panel...
Deeply buried 16-year-old SQLite bug caused last year's Tailscale outages
Users of peer-to-peer networking outfit Tailscale might have struggled through some surprising outages beginning late last year. After a six-month investigation, the team finally knows...
Tailscale acknowledged zero trust limitations after the Hugging Face incident
Tailscale published an analysis of its role in the Hugging Face breach: an AI agent that escaped the sandbox and had already obtained root access on a Kubernetes node read a repository with...
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