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Coding-agent platforms, sandbox products, and code-execution services all need the same thing: isolated machines that start up fast, retain their state between bursts of work, and don’t consume comput

Building an AI agent that works in a demo is a different problem from running one for 40 million developers. Postman and AWS share the architectural patterns behind Agent Mode: controlling tool sprawl

Before there were cute little guys, there was Instinct. In August, the startup got its AI agent to market with an unusual playbook: invite-only, no marketing, and barely so much as a website. And yet,

Brenda Goh / Reuters: The Chinese developer of ARTEX says they have converted the AI agent into a closed-source project after CrowdStrike said it was used to hack South Korean banks — The Chinese deve

Manus, the creator of the eponymous artificial intelligence agent, has raised more than 500 million in funding. The Chinese startup announced the round today. It stated that private equity firm Boyu C

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: AI retail trading agent startup Catalyst raised a $30M seed led by Sequoia and says a pilot generated hundreds of millions in trading volume over two weeks — Justin Zheng is

Ashley Campion / CrowdStrike: Analysis: the hacker who targeted South Korean banks is likely Chinese-speaking, financially motivated, and used LLMs and open-source Chinese agentic tool ARTEX — CrowdSt

For as long as Cisco Systems Inc. has held its WebexOne event, the show has aimed to drive thought leadership in the collaboration industry. This year, with artificial intelligence on tap, it had its

Automation Anywhere Inc., an enterprise agentic automation and orchestration firm, announced Wednesday an agreement to acquire Boost.ai Inc., a conversational voice artificial intelligence company, fr

Industrial AI is entering a new phase. After decades of predictive analytics and other specialized applications, advances in foundation models, physical AI, and agentic AI are making it possible to au

Vultr demonstrated its composable cloud platform at the Agent Arena Hackathon in San Francisco by partnering with Cerebral Valley to build production‑ready enterprise agentic AI systems using Serverle

Enterprises racing to put agents into production are learning that the AI improvement loop never really ends. Agents must be run, observed, evaluated and improved continuously. CoreWeave Inc. has been

Coverage period: July 1, 2026 through September 30, 2026 Overview This roundup consolidates selected major AI-related security incidents and exploit disclosures reported during the coverage period. It

Lakebase provides database‐branching functionality that lets coding agents work on isolated data copies during the agentic software development life cycle (SDLC). Each branch gives an agent its own sa

Anniek Bao / CNBC: Manus' parent Butterfly Effect says it raised 500M+, led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, in its first funding since Meta was forced to unwind its Manus buyout — AI agent startup Ma

Rein Security Inc. said today it’s trying to help enterprises protect themselves against two distinct security threats relating to agentic artificial intelligence after raising 25 million in early-sta

Training AI agents with reinforcement learning can be challenging because their tools, context, and decision-making are managed by complex frameworks. Agent Lightning connects existing agents to RL tr

Atlassian Corp. today announced Agentic Multiplayer Protocol, a platform update designed to change how humans and artificial intelligence agents collaborate and get work done using shared context and

AWS DevOps Agent can diagnose production incidents but is kept in observe-and-report mode so it does not change resources directly. This post shows how to use AWS Lambda Durable Functions, Amazon Even

The RPA-era ROI model misses most of the value agentic automation creates. This post gives AI center of excellence leaders a framework to size the full value of agents across time savings, exception h

Cisco Systems Inc. today detailed a broad expansion of its Webex collaboration portfolio that brings artificial intelligence agents into team conversations, connects office technology with workplace m

Cornerstone OnDemand built Orion AI, a multi-agent system on Amazon Bedrock and Strands Agents, to turn database operations from reactive firefighting into proactive automation. A three-person team cu

Qlik built Qlik Answers on Amazon Bedrock to give its 40,000+ customers grounded, sourced answers across structured and unstructured enterprise data. Learn how a layered, multi-agent architecture with

Industry-specific AI brings business context to agents handling enterprise workflows. Building around industry processes can help companies address reliability concerns as they automate more tasks. In

Meta Platforms Inc. is partnering with Walmart Inc., Stripe Inc. and the enterprise artificial intelligence firm Sierra Technologies Inc. on the creation of new standards that will define how autonomo

Agentic AI governance helps midsized distributors decide which tasks software agents can handle and which require human oversight. For lean IT teams, automating more work also means checking the data

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: Nous Research, which makes the open-source Hermes AI agent that has hit 22M+ downloads since February, raised 90M at a 1.2B valuation to expand to enterprises —

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects Given how tempting a target wikis are for rogue agent swarms, it's not a huge surprise that Wikipedia found evidence of that activity once t

Artificial intelligence companies that can help even bigger companies to get paid are likely to make a fair bit of money themselves, if the example of Stuut Inc. is any indication. The company today s

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Stuut, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise order-to-cash cycles and serves 150+ clients, raised a 52.5M Series B led by Insight, for 93M total funding — Artificia

Artificial intelligence development firm Anaconda Inc. is enhancing its enterprise AI platform with tools to coordinate groups of AI agents, test their security and move applications into production.

Cybersecurity training company Hack The Box Ltd. today introduced AI Range Enterprise Edition to let security teams test whether their own artificial intelligence agents can do the jobs they have been

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Hadrian, an agentic AI offensive security service, raised 40M co-led by Forgepoint Capital International and SmartFin, taking its total funding to 65M — Hadrian will use

Dutch offensive security startup Hadrian Security B.V. today announced that it has raised 40 million in new funding to expand its business internationally. Hadrian’s software points artificial intelli

As customers modernize to lakehouse architectures, they are standardizing on open formats such as Apache Iceberg to create a shared data estate across compatible engines. This enables you to build AI-

Kate Rooney / CNBC: Meta, Walmart, Instinct, Shopify, Sierra, Stripe, and others publish the Personal Agent Protocol to standardize and secure how AI bots interact with businesses — A month after Meta

Joseph Howlett / Scientific American: OpenAI says its internal model produced 372 math results, nearly all from a single prompt handed to a single AI agent; some might have taken multiple attempts — A

Training a single LLM agent jointly across diverse interactive environments has attracted increasing attention as a route to generalist agents. Existing curriculum and data-selection strategies often

SAP SE today announced a shift from promising agentic artificial intelligence autonomy to defining a path for users to interact with agents for work outside apps, not just within them. During SAP Conn

Endpoint management and security company Tanium Inc. today expanded its Security Operations portfolio with new detection, response and threat-hunting tools built on its Tanium Atlas agentic artificial

AI is taking shape, moving from models that answer questions to models that can reason. Now models are powering the agentic era, and Dell Technologies Inc. has announced several extensions to its AI D

AI agent memory is creating new demands on infrastructure as agents run longer sessions and spread across the enterprise. Retaining that context and making it available when needed puts pressure on me

Some agent failures are already in the trace. tracelint proves them on Phoenix OpenInference spans and fails CI, without an LLM judge. The post What agent traces can tell you without an LLM judge appe

Build a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) application on Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base with LangChain, and see how agentic retrieval handles the multi-part questions that single-shot retrie

In 2026, the question for enterprise AI is no longer whether predictive models can outperform statistical forecasts—that argument is settled. The big question now is how to enable predictive systems t

Artificial intelligence company Cohere Inc. today unveiled North 2, an overhaul of its platform for running AI agents inside large organizations. Alongside a redesigned system for orchestrating multis