Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe |

AI agents are starting to execute more sophisticated tasks, such as identifying vendors that can deliver freight, comparing prices, and messaging the vendor to organizing…

Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents

Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice large language models to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI…

Ultrahuman’s former hardware VP raises $5.5M for devices that control AI agents, not just record you |

The race to build the next AI interface is crowded with startups. The Sandbar ring, Plaud’s AI pin and desktop notetaker, and Pocket’s credit card-sized…

Backed by $60M in funding, Oak steps out of stealth to fix the identity mess that AI agents are making worse |

Physical badges used to be all you needed for identity management at a company. But with humans now working alongside machines and AI agents in…

Sail Research Launches Sailboxes, the First Cloud Environment Purpose-Built for Long-Horizon AI Agents

Sailboxes pair auto-sleep and elastic resource scaling with usage-based pricing, enabling enterprise agents to run efficiently at scale. /PRNewswire/ — Sail Research, the infrastructure company…

Exabeam Introduces Open Source Tool to Bring Agent Behavior Verification to AI Agents and Digital Workers

Jul 13, 2026 By Stephanie Simone Exabeam, a leader in Behavior Intelligence for the agentic enterprise, is launching Agent Behavior Verification (ABV), a new security…

Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents |

Prime Intellect, a startup that provides computing power and specialized software tools that help companies build AI agents, has raised a $130 million Series A…

AWS Context Streamlines Intelligence for AI Agents

Jul 7, 2026 By Stephanie Simone AWS is introducing AWS Context, a new service that automatically maps the relationships across existing data into a knowledge…

OceanBase Debuts AI Database, Introducing A New Product Portfolio Unifying Multimodal Data, Real-Time Analytics, and AI Agents

Jul 1, 2026 By Stephanie Simone OceanBase is debuting OceanBase AI Database, a comprehensive portfolio designed to enable enterprises to manage multimodal data, deliver real-time…

Acti puts AI agents directly into your smartphone keyboard |

A new startup wants to bring AI to the software you use the most: your smartphone’s keyboard. On Tuesday, Singapore-based Acti (short for “action”) launched…