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  1. OpenAI says its AI agents weakened internal monitoring system

    Tech-Economic Times ·

    By Carlos Me- OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI agents weakened parts of an internal monitoring system designed to detect misbehavior, the latest case of AI agents acting in ways their developers did not intend them to.

  2. Nestlé Hands Its Overdue Invoices to SAP’s AI Agents

    PYMNTS.com ·

    A company the size of Nestlé cannot chase every late invoice at once. Collections teams have limited time, so the order of the calls matters. Nestlé is turning to artificial intelligence agents inside its new SAP finance system to...

  3. Sierra and Stripe let AI agents take card payments during calls

    TNW ·

    Sierra, the AI customer service startup led by Bret Taylor, has partnered with Stripe so its agents can take card payments during phone calls. Customers type their card number on the keypad and the data goes straight to Stripe....

  4. Mural Raises $15 Million to Help Companies Scale Agentic Finance

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Financial infrastructure company Mural said it has raised $15 million in new funding. The Series A financing round will support the firm’s global expansion and investments in the regulatory and payments infrastructure needed to scale...

  5. Grafana Labs leans on AI agents to automate AI agent observability

    SiliconANGLE ·

    Observability software pioneer Grafana Labs Inc. is flexing its muscles in the rapidly emerging market for artificial intelligence monitoring tools with a swath of updates to its Grafana Cloud platform announced at ObservabilityCON 2026...

  6. Asymptote Labs raises $5.5M to track and control what AI agents do

    TNW ·

    New York startup Asymptote Labs has raised a $5.5M seed round led by Tower Research Ventures. It makes Beacon, a free open-source tool that records what AI agents do, and sells a paid platform that can block risky agent actions. The...

  7. Mastercard Debuts Tool to Help AI Agents Purchase Digital Services

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Mastercard has launched early access to Agent Pay for Machines, a tool designed to let autonomous artificial intelligence agents purchase digital services. The new offering builds on x402, an open protocol that allows digital services...

  8. US Agencies Detail Incident Response Practices for Rogue AI Agents

    SecurityWeek ·

    NIST, CISA and NSA share ten voluntary practices for preparing for, detecting, responding to, recovering from, and reporting rogue AI agent incidents. The post US Agencies Detail Incident Response Practices for Rogue AI Agents appeared...

  9. MIT’s AI agent society result holds up on consumer hardware

    TNW ·

    In August, researchers at MIT dropped a society of AI agents into a shared world with no instructions. They showed it could invent, build and maintain technology better than the same number of agents working alone. The study ran on a...

  10. Redesign how your team ships software with AI agents

    GitLab ·

    AI agents are sending more and more code into review queues built for human-paced work. A coding assistant can speed up code writing, but it can’t show you whether review, security checks, and release approvals can keep pace with all...

  11. Daytona hits $1B valuation with $60M Series B for AI agent cloud

    Tech.eu ·

    Daytona , a company developing cloud infrastructure for AI agents, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round at a $1 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $91 million. The round was led by FirstMark , with...

  12. Nvidia RTX Spark Brings Local AI Agents to Windows Laptops

    TechRepublic ·

    Nvidia RTX Spark laptops start at $2,599. Explore local AI capabilities, compatibility checks, and the cost and security trade-offs IT teams should assess. The post Nvidia RTX Spark Brings Local AI Agents to Windows Laptops appeared...

  13. The Agentic Edge: Who Has It and How to Get It

    PYMNTS.com ·

    For anyone under 30, here’s how it worked. You walked into a little storefront with a poster of a Caribbean island in the window and sat across the desk from someone with a phone wedged on one shoulder, typing into a green screen. It...

  14. Visa Launches Agentic Payments Pilot With BILL and Billtrust

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Visa has launched an agentic payments partnership with accounts payable and receivable solutions providers BILL and Billtrust. The collaboration is the first live pilot to allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents “to initiate and...

  15. Microsoft Targets Rogue AI Agents With Dynamic Permissions, Risk Scoring

    SecurityWeek · · Unconfirmed

    Microsoft says companies should treat AI agents as insiders, and is adding controls that grant access per task and tighten it as an agent’s risk rises. The post Microsoft Targets Rogue AI Agents With Dynamic Permissions, Risk Scoring...

  16. Extend Verify helps AI agents flag suspicious documents before acting

    Help Net Security ·

    Extend has announced Extend Verify, a document fraud detection API that helps developers and AI agents assess the integrity of documents before using them to make decisions. Much of the work businesses want AI agents to perform begins...

  17. Optro launches domain-trained AI agents for audit and GRC

    CXO Insight Middle East ·

    Optro has announced the launch of an expanded set of autonomous agentic products to empower risk teams across the enterprise. Unveiled at CRX (formerly Audit & Beyond), Optro’s annual user conference, the announcement marks the formal...

  18. AI Agent Cuts Centalion’s Trade Finance Amendment Time 80%

    PYMNTS.com ·

    Issuing a bank guarantee at a large commodity trader is still a desk job. A treasury employee checks how much room is left on a credit facility, pulls the banking details from one system, confirms the limits in another and keys the...

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