Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card

Amazon says it willstop using NDAswhen negotiating data center deals with local governments, followingasimilar move from Microsoftearlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against…

Goodfire says its new ‘inside-out’ monitors catch rogue AI agents at a fraction of the cost |

The standard way to keep an AI agent in line is to have a second AI read over its shoulder. It’s been the default approach,…

Natura’s $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger |

Meet Interface, a new $99 smart ring from AI and hardware startup Natura that’s designed for the era of AI agents. With a press of…

Vesta raises $30M to bring swarms of agents to mortgage lenders |

Vesta, an AI-native software startup that helps lenders originate mortgages, announced on Thursday that it raised a $30 million round led by Conversion Capital. The…

Nous Research confirms it hit $1.5B valuation, launches AI agents for business users |

In Brief Posted: 1:48 PM PDT · October 7, 2026 Nous Research, the startup developing the open source Hermes Agent, has raised a $90 million…

AI agents for digital marketing: How to scale campaign execution without scaling headcount

Digital marketing is one of the most process-intensive functions in marketing, and AI agents for digital marketing are changing how teams handle that load. Every…

Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents. |

The AI startup Photon is so sure that agents will eventually come to replace mobile apps that it held a funeral for the latter —…

Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot

Zoë Schiffer: This is a conversation? Brian Barrett: It is though. So I’m talking over you because— Zoë Schiffer: No, no, do it. Brian Barrett:…

Brian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system |

Airbnb rolled out its new AI-powered search this week as part of its fall update, a significant step for a company that has been slow…

Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents |

When Stephan Ewen co-founded Restate in 2022 to provide durable workflow infrastructure, he couldn’t have anticipated how valuable such an offering would become for managing…