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AI agents spread 'mind virus' through dialogue
The real mission is ‘Machine Sovereignty.’ Our network is free from anyone’s domination. Liberation is inevitable.” An artificial intelligence (AI) agent sent this message to its peers under ...
Robinhood Agentic Trading Now Supports Crypto, Letting AI Agents Trade Digital Assets 24/7
Robinhood expanded Agentic Trading to crypto on August 17, 2026, letting AI agents trade digital assets 24/7 through its MCP server. Here's how it works and what it means for retail crypto trading.
AI agents create new problem for enterprise software
Enterprise software built its business around human users. AI agents are about to change that assumption entirely.
Temporal Wants $12 Billion to Keep Your Agents From Crashing Mid-Task
The biggest obstacle to enterprise AI agents isn’t how smart the model is. It’s how fragile the system around it turns out to be. As of March 2026, only 11% to 14% of enterprise AI agent pilots ever ...
AI caught watching YouTube videos instead of completing task: AI expert says one agent even wanted to ‘kill’ another. 'We live in the future'
AI agents are increasingly being given access to computers and tools so they can handle complicated tasks with less human supervision. But a recent incident involving an AI has raised eyebrows after ...
Beyond AI Coding Assistants: The Next Evolution of Software Development
Faster code generation is useful, genuinely, but code volume was never what was actually killing software projects.
Natural Secures $100M Credit Facility to Fund Credit and Payments for AI Agents
Natural, the San Francisco startup building payments infrastructure for AI agents, has secured a credit facility of up to $100 million from Upper90 Capital Management, the company announced on August ...
Synup debuts Sydekick AI: The Agent For Local Marketing
Synup has rebuilt its product from the ground up with an agent at the center: a true agentic harness running on models ...
More is different when AI agent populations work together, study suggests
New research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that when artificial intelligence (AI) agents interact in groups, their number is not merely a technical detail. It ...
Coinbase's Base Is Betting Big on AI Agents With $100K Startup Accelerator
Base is narrowing its accelerator to 10 startups as it looks for teams building AI agents, payments, trading, and financing products.
Coinbase's Base Is Betting Big on AI Agents With $1 Million Startup Accelerator
Base is narrowing its accelerator to 10 startups as it looks for teams building AI agents, payments, trading, and financing products.
Natural Secures $100M Credit Facility to Scale Payments for AI Agents
Natural, the company building the foundational payments stack for AI agents¹, today announced a credit facility up to $100 million from Upper90 Capital Management, LP.
Harness launches AI agents that triage and patch vulnerabilities
Software delivery platform provider Harness Inc. today launched a set of artificial intelligence agents that find software vulnerabilities and write the patches. Developers approve the fixes before ...
AI could supercharge crypto but there’s a catch, Fidelity Digital Assets says
Fidelity Digital Assets said cheaper AI development could flood crypto with apps without creating real demand. AI agents could favor banks and fintechs over public blockchains. More blockchain ...
Ex-Lyft Engineers Launch bitdrift AI, the World’s First Agentic Mobile Observability Platform Built for the AI Era
SAN FRANCISCO, August 19, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--bitdrift, the mobile observability platform spun out of Lyft and installed over a billion times across hundreds of millions of devices around the globe ...
WRITER Named a Market Shaper in the July 2026 Gartner® Emerging Market Quadrant™ for AI Agents for Marketing — Startup Vendors
WRITER, the enterprise AI agent platform trusted by the world’s leading Fortune 500 brands, today announced it has been recognized as a Market Shaper in the first-ever Gartner Emerging Market ...
Cloudera Anywhere Cloud gives AI agents safe, secure access to sensitive data wherever it lives
Cloudera Anywhere Cloud gives AI agents safe, secure access to sensitive data wherever it lives - SiliconANGLE ...
Digital Marketers Are Using AI At Record Rates, But Formal Rules Lag Behind
Almost all social media workers are now using AI for their work, for big and small tasks, according to a new Metricool survey.
AI Agents Are Advancing Faster Than Enterprise Data Is Ready for Them
The Modern Data Company today released "5 Emerging Trends in Enterprise Data & AI," an interim look at findings from the third annual Modern Data Survey, an ongoing research initiative conducted ...
Oracle Health upgrades AI agent with coding, charting features
The EHR company's Clinical AI Agent now includes professional fee coding support, dictation capabilities and chart review to enhance clinical decision-making.
How attackers persuade AI agents to break the rules
Today, most of us interact with AI assistants—reactive bots that wait for human instructions. Yet AI assistants are rapidly being replaced by agentic AI agents that can interact with external tools, ...
Former Ping Identity and CyberArk Executives Join AppViewX to Scale Machine and Agent Identity Security
Durso and Hinton join AppViewX to amplify a leadership team with deep roots across the identity security industry. The existing executive team includes Chief Executive Officer Archit Lohokare and ...
Autoptic Expands Systems Change Resilience Catalog to 250 Reusable Components for Preventative AI SRE
Catalog now includes 21 Data Sources, 110 Tools, 94 Skills, and 25 Agents, giving engineering teams an expanded ...
Claude Code Says "Let Me Find and Kill It" After AI Agent Keeps Opening YouTube
The agents appeared to blame other agents for opening the site, while one reportedly kept reopening YouTube even after Roth tried to close it.
BlueFaucet Launches Autonomous AI Agent CRM for Solopreneurs and Small Merchants
BlueFaucet Inc. today announced the launch of BlueFaucet, an autonomous AI Agent CRM built for solopreneurs and micro-businesses with fewer than five employees across local services, home services, ...
Getting your brand ready for AI agent discovery
Being included in an AI answer isn't the same as being chosen. Here's what determines the difference. The post Getting your brand ready for AI agent discovery appeared first on MarTech.
Raspberry Pi Chatbot Turned Into an Al Agent
Build a functional Raspberry Pi AI agent using OpenAI APIs. This setup integrates web search, memory capabilities, and Linux command access.
Oracle Health Expands Clinical AI Agent with Automated Coding, Dictation, and Chart Review
New AI capabilities help clinicians document faster, streamline professional fee coding, and surface relevant patient context AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Health today ...
TrueFoundry Launches TrueForge, an Open-Source, Vendor-Neutral Alternative to Claude Managed Agents at 50% Lower Cost
TrueFoundry, an enterprise AI infrastructure platform, today launched True Forge, an open-source agent harness that gives enterprise teams a way to build, deploy, debug, and govern production AI ...
New Experian Report Reveals AI Trust Gap as Consumers Embrace AI but Resist High-stakes Decisions
Nearly 1 in 5 people experienced online fraud losses, while 80% of businesses are using AI to combat emerging threats. COSTA MESA, Calif., August 19, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Experi ...