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CopilotKit, a Seattle startup with roots in Techstars Seattle, raised $27 million for technology that lets AI agents work inside existing software apps. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle have adopted the company's open AG-UI protocol. Read More
Two new protocols, one from Stripe and one from a fintech startup called iWallet, are attempting to solve the same The post AI agents need to spend money — Stripe and iWallet are building the rails appeared first on The New Stack.
The Solana Foundation's Pay.sh provides a way for AI bots to discover, access, and pay for API usage on Google Cloud.
Open-source technology provider WS02 LLC today announced the launch of WSO2 Agent Manager, an open control plane for artificial intelligence agents that gives enterprises a unified way to identify, govern, secure and scale agents across environments. The new offering helps organizations move from AI
AI firm Anthropic is launching new software for banks and insurers. Ten specialized AI programs will automate tasks like building pitchbooks and auditing statements. This move aims to boost efficiency in the financial sector. Major companies like Goldman Sachs and Visa are already using Anthropic's
The founders of IronSource spent a decade building tools that helped mobile app developers monetise their products through advertising. They sold that company to Unity for $4.4 billion in 2022, watched Unity dismantle the ad network they had built, left in 2024, and have now returned with a company
The Seattle-based startup's Series A round was led by Glilot Capital, NFX, and SignalFire, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
Where Budgets Are Opening for AI Agents in May 2026 Where Budgets Are Opening for AI Agents in May 2026 Prepared on May 5, 2026. This note is not a generic “top 10 AI agents” list. I filtered for categories that already show three public signals at the same time: A company is actively hiring against
In a single-agent system, failure is simple: the agent errors, you retry. In multi-agent systems, failure is a graph problem. Agent A: ✅ Success Agent B: ❌ Timeout (depends on A) Agent C: ❌ Skipped (depends on B) Agent D: ❌ Partial data (depends on C) One timeout propagates through the entire pipeli
A test of leading AI agents found vastly different amounts of tokens consumed with no transparency and no guarantees of success.
Most AI apps do not fail because the model is bad. They fail because the system surrounding the model lacks structure. The first version usually starts the same way. A user sends input, the app calls an LLM, and the response is returned. That is enough for a demo, but the moment the system needs to
You know that feeling when your OpenAI agent starts behaving weirdly at 3 AM and you have no idea what went wrong? Yeah, that's what we're fixing today. Most teams focus on token usage and API costs when monitoring their agents. Sure, those matter. But if you're running agents in production handling
If you've tried building an AI agent in the last six months, you've hit the same wall: there are half a dozen frameworks, each with a different philosophy, a different API surface, and a different definition of what an "agent" even is. I spent a weekend writing the same simple agent — "read a GitHub
Eight months after closing a $350 million funding round, Sierra Technologies Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional $950 million at a $15 billion valuation. Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capital arm and Tiger Global led the investment. They were joined by Benchmark, Sequoia, Greenoaks an
Cisco Systems Inc. today revealed it will buy the Israeli cybersecurity firm Astrix Security Ltd. in an effort to bolster the defenses of artificial intelligence agents. The startup has developed a platform that can identify, manage and secure AI agents running in production environments. Terms were
Why Every AI Agent Needs a Cryptographic Identity The problem nobody is talking about Now consider this: every AI agent running in production today has no equivalent. No identity. No verification. No way to prove it is who it claims to be. A financial AI agent executing trades. A customer service ag
Katie Haun’s venture firm closes a $1 billion fund to target crypto infrastructure and systems for AI agents to transact autonomously.
Katie Haun has raised $1 billion for two new venture funds at Haun Ventures, split evenly between early and later-stage vehicles to be deployed over the next two to three years. The capital will go into crypto and blockchain companies, which have been the firm’s focus since Haun left Andreessen Horo
Former prosecutor Katie Haun has secured $1 billion for new venture funds, focusing on crypto and blockchain companies, with a strategic blend of AI and financial services. Her firm, Haun Ventures, aims for global investments, leveraging her unique background in law enforcement and tech to navigate
Giving an AI agent permission to spawn sub-agents (without losing control) A reader asked me last week: "If my main agent spawns a sub-agent, what permissions does the sub-agent get? How do I make sure it cannot do more than the parent?" This is the agent delegation problem. It comes up the moment y
