Ben Itzhak
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Reduck raises $3 million so AI agents can stop clicking through websites
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Trmeric raises $6.5M to build an AI system that manages enterprise transformation projects
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Y Combinator’s Maritime gives every AI agent its own persistent computer, starting at $1 a month
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Replicas raises $4M to give coding agents their own cloud computers
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Upcoming: MCP Dev Summit Nairobi
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Upcoming: Agentic AI Summit Toronto
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Factory acquires Typedef to give its coding agents a view of data dependencies
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Deepgram buys Daily, maker of the Pipecat voice agent framework
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Agent identity startup Mintive raises $7 million seed, with Jeff Dean and Andrej Karpathy as angels
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Replit reports no tested open-weight model completed a full ViBench 2.0 build
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Microsoft offers the Copilot harness behind its own agents to developers through Foundry
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Fragment raises $56 million for procurement agents
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Amazon Quick adds a classifier that decides which agent actions need a human’s approval
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California lawmakers say ‘legislation is coming’ to close gaps in AI safety law SB 53
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FTC demands testimony from Anthropic executives in AI safety probe
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IBM makes Agent Identity generally available, treating AI agents like employees with badges
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At AGNTCon + MCPCon in San Jose, the Agentic AI Foundation passes 300 members and adds four projects
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NVIDIA’s OpenShell Reference Architecture is a hardware-to-software blueprint for running AI agents safely
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SentinelOne launches detection and response built to stop rogue AI agents
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Visa, BILL and Billtrust pilot AI agents that pay supplier invoices end to end
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Cursor releases its Agent SDK, the framework behind Bugbot, for teams to build their own agents
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Aleksander Madry returns to OpenAI to work on safety with chief scientist Jakub Pachocki
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MiniMax M3.1 Flash cuts agent task costs by 70%, and the anonymous ‘Space Bunny’ model was an early version
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OECD policy brief says AI agents will strain consent and deletion rules, and could also help enforce them
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Copilot Studio agents get their own Microsoft 365 accounts and a shared memory for business processes
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Singapore launches a starter kit for testing AI agents for safety and reliability
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G2 survey finds two-thirds of companies run AI agents in production, with a ‘distrust tax’ on the gains
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Microsoft ships Azure MCP Server 3.0 with backup, recovery and SRE Agent tools for AI agents
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Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model, at an introductory $2 per million input tokens
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Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench 2.0 gives agents three hours and tracks how far they get
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Gemini at Work 2026: Google surrounds its new agent with industry editions and spending caps
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Manus raises more than $500 million in its first round since Beijing blocked Meta’s takeover
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Nous Research raises $90 million at a $1.5 billion valuation to take Hermes Agent to businesses
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Eight former AI lab employees explain why they quit
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AWS releases Strands Decider 2B, an open-source model built to pick answers rather than write them
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FTC chair says companies are liable for what their AI agents do
