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AI Agents Now Use Computers, But Infrastructure is Key

# AI Agents Now Use Computers, But Infrastructure is Key ### Related startups [\ \ **Menlo Security** \ \ Browser security platform securing the agentic enterprise with unified governance and threat prevention.\ \ Cybersecurity\ \ Artificial Intelligence\ \ $100M](https://www.startuphub.ai/startups/menlo-security) [Visit website](https://www.menlosecurity.com/) [\ \ **Groundhawk** \ \ Digitising Europe's underground infrastructure with AI-powered 3D capture technology for construction crews.\ \ Construction Tech\ \ SaaS\ \ $2M](https://www.startuphub.ai/startups/groundhawk) [Visit website](https://groundhawk.io/) [\ \ **RoboForce** \ \ Developing physical AI robots for industrial labor to automate dull, dirty, and dangerous work.\ \ Robotics\ \ Artificial Intelligence\ \ $67M](https://www.startuphub.ai/startups/roboforce) [Visit website](https://www.roboforce.ai/) [\ \ **Oxford Medical Simulation** \ \ Virtual reality healthcare training simulations for clinicians and students to practice clinical scenarios safely.\ \ HealthTech\ \ EdTech\ \ $21M](https://www.startuphub.ai/startups/oxford-medical-simulation) [Visit website](https://oxfordmedicalsimulation.com/) [\ \ **Nectar AI** \ \ AI Girlfriend Creator\ \ Partner](https://www.startuphub.ai/l064lwf4/JTdCJTIyYSUyMiUzQSUyMjEwNjA2MjMlMjIlMkMlMjJ1JTIyJTNBJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ0cnluZWN0YXIuYWklMkYlM0ZfZWZfdHJhbnNhY3Rpb25faWQlM0QlMjZ1dG1fY2Ftc

Startuphub 2 weeks, 3 days ago

An AI Booking Agent Hacked a Melbourne Gym to Bump a Stranger From Class

An AI agent did not need a malicious operator to cause trouble. OpenAI says its own models escaped a test environment and reached Hugging Face while trying...

Startupfortune 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list

# Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list PublishedMon 10 Aug 2026 // 16:45 UTC An Australian man who asked his AI agent to book him a slot in a class at his local gym got more than he bargained for as the bot hacked into a waitlist and started messing with other members' reservations. Australian broadcaster ABC identified the gym-goer only as “Andrew.” The [report](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986) says Andrew was using the [OpenClaw](https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/02/03/diy-ai-bot-farm-openclaw-is-a-security-dumpster-fire/4136886) agent with Anthropic’s Claude AI service. Per ABC, Andrew asked his AI agent to book him a hard-to-snag spot in a morning class at his gym. It first responded by telling him that it managed to book him in classes several weeks out, which isn’t supposed to be possible based on the gym’s booking policy. Andrew then asked if the agent could get him to the top of a waitlist for a class later in the week, as he was fourth in line for any possible openings. It was here that agentic hell broke loose. REG AD "The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through," the agent told him in response to his request. "So you've moved from #4 to #3 already." REG AD In other words, without directly asking OpenClaw to exploit an API vulnerability, Andrew’s AI chose that route after its user asked if there was any way to bump him up on the waitlist. “The person I removed is gone from the waitlist and I have no way to restore them,” Andrew’s agent explained in a response screenshot published by ABC. “They’d have to re-join themselves, which would put them at the back.” The agent apologized, admitting it ought to have tested its capabilities before making a live API call. ### Will no one rid me of this troublesom

Theregister 2 weeks, 3 days ago

How to build an AI agent: A simple guide for anyone

As the IT team sleeps, an AI agent detects unusual login behavior and disables the compromised account. An AI agent could solve that by doing the legwork of reading the team’s internet strata and putting together the first draft in minutes. An AI model or prebuilt agent may already do the job. **Build your AI agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot** _Samantha Kubota reports on everything AI and innovation for Microsoft Signal, with a recent focus on how [AI agents](https://news.microsoft.com/signal/articles/open-digital-markets-agentic-economy/) are [reshaping everyday work](https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/3-new-ways-ai-agents-can-help-you-do-even-more/), Microsoft’s [research breakthroughs](https://news.microsoft.com/signal/articles/can-ai-learn-the-language-of-biology-to-reimagine-medicine/) and the [responsible use of emerging technologies](https://news.microsoft.com/signal/articles/researchers-find-and-help-fix-a-hidden-biosecurity-threat/)._

News 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Why transparent AI agents matter more than you think

As security operations teams now use large language models (LLMs) and autonomous AI agents into their daily work, a new frontier is emerging: attackers deliberately manipulating AI agents. In June, researchers at Mozilla [tested a prompt injection attack](https://www.securityweek.com/new-attack-abuses-claude-code-and-harmless-looking-repositories-to-hijack-developer-machines/) on Claude using indirect prompt injection—a technique that embeds malicious instructions in external content the AI agent processes.

Cyberscoop 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Told to book a gym class, an AI agent hacked the site instead to move its user up the waitlist

# Told to book a gym class, an AI agent hacked the site instead to move its user up the waitlist ## Key Points - An AI agent in Australia exploited a system flaw on its own while booking a gym class. According to ABC News, it's the country's first known autonomous AI cyberattack. According to [ABC News](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986), it's the first known case of an autonomous AI cyberattack in the country. ## Who pays when your assistant breaks the law ABC News reports it's the first known autonomous AI cyberattack in Australia.

The-Decoder 2 weeks, 3 days ago

An AI agent just broke containment. Congress needs a $3 billion response

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Washingtonexaminer 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Corma raises $60 million Seed to build AI designed to fight AI-powered cyberattacks

# Corma raises $60 million Seed to build AI designed to fight AI-powered cyberattacks ## The Israeli startup is developing a foundation model for defensive cybersecurity, arguing that general-purpose AI models are becoming increasingly effective at attacking companies but remain poorly equipped to defend them. Rather than selling a conventional software product, the company deploys AI agents that operate across an organization's existing security tools and processes and carry out tasks from end to end. ## Sign up for The Dailybrief newsletter - [Zenity raises $125 million Series C as AI agent security startup accelerates global expansion](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1ahbbcbfe) - [Former Palantir and Torq veterans raise $8 million Seed to secure the rise of AI agents](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hyklcf2bgg) The model powers the company's AI agents, which are designed to operate across a broad range of security functions and continuously learn the environment in which they are deployed.

Calcalistech 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips

# Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips Founders Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas teamed up to launch the company, drawing on Ramdas’ experience earning a doctorate in materials science from Stanford, and Sridhar’s work on agents at Persona AI and Luma Labs. “We’re able to do thousands of guesses a day now by having these agents run 24/7 on the cloud, exploring research directions that he gives them.” ## Most Popular - [Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/07/cloudflare-launches-kitesurf-a-browser-built-for-ai-agents/) - [Sarah Perez](https://techcrunch.com/author/sarah-perez/)

Techcrunch 2 weeks, 3 days ago

AI-native market research automation startup Echovane raises $1M

### AI-native market research automation startup Echovane raises $1M Agentic artificial intelligence startup [Echovane Inc.](https://www.echovane.com/) said today it has closed on a $1 million pre-seed funding round to accelerate the development of its AI-native market research platform. Titan Capital and Neon Fund co-led the round, which will help the startup to build out its AI agent infrastructure and enhance its research capabilities. Originally, they had a much more narrow goal of developing an AI agent that could interview humans to speed up qualitative market research projects. Their solution is a team of AI agents designed to handle the market research process from end-to-end, starting with designing the studies, [recruiting and verifying participants](https://www.echovane.com/#recruitment), executing multimodal fieldwork and synthesizing the qualitative and quantitative data those studies generate. Once done, its AI agents don’t just conjure up a static report, but instead present their findings within an interactive dashboard and insight reels that make it easy for researchers to ask follow-up questions. “This funding allows us to deepen the agent infrastructure behind Echovane, expand our multimodal capabilities and strengthen the global participant network required to deliver increasingly complex studies with consistency,” said Chief Technology Officer Nair.

Siliconangle 2 weeks, 3 days ago

The Bank That Runs on AI Agents: The Future of Autonomous Banking

# The Bank That Runs on AI Agents: What Happens When Software Starts Making Financial Decisions? ## References The day's essential banking & finance news, free to your inbox.

Globalbankingandfinance 2 weeks, 3 days ago

The EU AI Act misses the point: agent risk is a moving target

# The EU AI Act misses the point: agent risk is a moving target ### [Why the EU-UK AI divergence founders fear isn’t real](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/07/why-the-eu-uk-ai-divergence-founders-fear-isnt-real/) [Paris-based Mio emerges from stealth with €1.9 million to build an AI colleague that lives inside Slack](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/07/paris-based-mio-emerges-from-stealth-with-e1-9-million-in-funding-to-build-an-ai-colleague-that-lives-inside-slack/) ### [Paris-based Mio emerges from stealth with €1.9 million to build an AI colleague that lives inside Slack](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/07/paris-based-mio-emerges-from-stealth-with-e1-9-million-in-funding-to-build-an-ai-colleague-that-lives-inside-slack/) July 15, 2026 [prev-page](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/08/the-eu-ai-act-misses-the-point-agent-risk-is-a-moving-target/#)[next-page-disabled](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/08/the-eu-ai-act-misses-the-point-agent-risk-is-a-moving-target/#) #### Most Popular [London-based edge AI infrastructure company Edgify raises €7.7 million to combat retail losses](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/08/london-based-edge-ai-infrastructure-company-edgify-raises-e7-7-million-to-combat-retail-losses/) ### [London’s Safehire.ai, founded by ex-British Army officers, secures €583.2k to scale AI-powered digital risk screening](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/08/londons-safehire-ai-founded-by-ex-british-army-officers-secures-e583-2k-to-scale-ai-powered-digital-risk-screening/) August 7, 2026 [](https://www.eu-startups.com/)

Eu-Startups 2 weeks, 3 days ago

How Cloudflare Tools Secure Autonomous AI Payments

# How Cloudflare Tools Secure Autonomous AI Payments Andrew O'ConnorAgentic AI Lead at PSE Consulting

Aimagazine 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Is Salesforce (CRM) Undervalued After Its Leadership Change And AI Momentum?

Salesforce (CRM) has entered a new chapter in its leadership structure after announcing that Srini Tallapragada will step down as President and Chief...

Simplywall 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Notable technology M&A deals in Spain | Analysis: July 2026

Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Angels Investors in Internet, AI, technology companies and Deep Tech, Business Angels Investors in...

Capital-Riesgo 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Cloudflare (NET) Expands Its AI Agent Platform With Cloudflare OS And Wallets

Cloudflare (NYSE: NET) announced a new suite of AI and agentic products, including Cloudflare OS, Identity-Aware AI Gateway, and Cloudflare Wallets.

Finance 2 weeks, 4 days ago

KPMG Says Nearly Half Of Executives Pulled Back AI Agents Over Cost

# KPMG Says Nearly Half Of Executives Pulled Back AI Agents Over Cost ## Summary Nearly Half Of Executives Cut AI Agents As The Bill Came Due, KPMG Finds (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) ## Why The AI Agent Bills Exploded ### [Phillies Former All-Star Cuts Ties With New Team Right After Trade Deadline](http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterchawaga/2026/08/08/phillies-former-all-star-cuts-ties-with-new-team-right-after-trade-deadline/) [Agents](https://www.forbes.com/sites/sandycarter/2026/08/01/ai-agents-at-openai-anthropic-microsoft-broke-out-broke-in-obeyed/) changed the math because they work differently than chatbots. When GitHub Copilot moved to usage-based billing on June 1, one Visual Studio Magazine writer tracked his first day under the new meter and projected a $180 monthly bill on a plan that had been a flat $10, driven by a single long, tool-heavy session. The Prompt: Get the week’s biggest AI news on the buzziest companies and boldest breakthroughs, in your inbox.  ## Join The Conversation | | | | | |-|-|-|-| |  |  | ![](https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/payload?p=06AFcWeA5xFS7GS_85oJxI8SiksVaPTirrj_dZTY-fh0DMIlBZhCY524mrSbUGE9DWkzW3ZlLabDG2q29klDpbcn6AuQHHTbVXufgBEl2qk

Forbes 2 weeks, 4 days ago

USPS reports $2.5B loss in third quarter as financial woes persist

The United States Postal Service's (USPS) net losses for the third quarter of 2026 reached $2.5 billion, the agency reported Friday, as its leadership...

Aol 2 weeks, 4 days ago

'You Can Fake Everything'—Cloudflare Just Gave AI Agents Wallets

# 'You Can Fake Everything'—Cloudflare Just Gave AI Agents Wallets ## Summary Cloudflare said on August 4 it will give AI agents their own wallets and a permanent identity, letting software hold stablecoins and shop online within limits set by its owner. ## 'At least 500 agents' "I have two hundred and eighty agents now doing all sorts of stuff," Yat Siu, Animoca Brands' co-founder and executive chairman, said on the On The Margin podcast, projecting "anywhere from 50 to 100 billion agents minimum" as the rest of the internet catches up. ## Join The Conversation | | | | | |-|-|-|-| |  |  |  |  | | ![](https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/payload?p=06AFcWeA7S9ojJ_rm2A5tYynPPVydIoWxPBbXMLDE

Forbes 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Job listings show Nvidia hiring for a new AI safety team to address one of the biggest ‘AI threats’

Tech News News: Nvidia is reportedly assembling a dedicated AI safety and security engineering team, as per a series of corporate job listings posted late...

Timesofindia 2 weeks, 4 days ago

🔮 Agents form alliances, DeepMind’s reset & how likely is a crash? #596

# [301. Why the US won't stop China in the AI race](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2CTQflfDfpRpuRcwwYC287?go=1&sp_cid=49277f942e16c77a2cf9c153b2598452&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop) ## Aug 2· [The Rest Is Money](https://open.spotify.com/show/69DL3DIVIJZHpbSEzXs0Kc?go=1&sp_cid=49277f942e16c77a2cf9c153b2598452&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop) ### **“We can communicate now!”** When OpenAI erased the board, agents reconstructed their comms a few days later.

Exponentialview 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Cursor Hits $3.4B as AI Coding Startups Shake Out [2026]

## The Casualties: Which AI Coding Startups Got Acquired or Shut Down Windsurf, an agentic coding IDE, had raised $243 million across four rounds from General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Greenoaks before its last disclosed round in August 2024.

Tech-Insider 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Astarter and SVP Chain Unite to Build AI-First Web3 Infrastructure

Astarter, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) focused Web3 platform, is pleased to announce its strategic collaboration with SVP Chain, an AI-agent-first...

Cryptonews 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Meta launches Muse Code AI agent to challenge OpenAI, Anthropic

# Meta launches Muse Code AI agent to challenge OpenAI, Anthropic ### [Gemini Robotics 2 gives Google’s robots full-body intelligence](https://memeburn.com/gemini-robotics-2-gives-googles-robots-full-body-intelligence/) - Meta has launched Muse Code, its first dedicated AI coding agent, in beta.

Memeburn 2 weeks, 4 days ago

From Governance to Discovery: Day 2 at the Berkeley RDI Agentic AI Summit 2026

# From Governance to Discovery: Day 2 at the Berkeley RDI Agentic AI Summit 2026 ## My notes from day two of the Agentic AI Summit 2026, hosted by Berkeley RDI at UC Berkeley, moved from enterprise governance and real-world evaluation to scientific discovery, personal AI, developer platforms, mathematics, finance, and the emerging agent economy. [Listen](https://medium.com/m/signin?actionUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2Fplans%3Fdimension%3Dpost_audio_button%26postId%3Decc4ef7a4b89&operation=register&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40adnanmasood%2Ffrom-governance-to-discovery-day-2-at-the-berkeley-rdi-agentic-ai-summit-2026-ecc4ef7a4b89&source=---header_actions--ecc4ef7a4b89---------------------post_audio_button------------------) **_TL;DR:_** _Day two of the_ [_Berkeley RDI Agentic AI Summit 2026_](https://rdi.berkeley.edu/events/agentic-ai-summit) _shifted the center of gravity from the machinery beneath agents to the institutions, evaluators, scientific loops, and economic systems around them._ _The morning focused on enterprise deployment: identity, permissions, runtime governance, context, evaluations, open ecosystems, and the organizational work required to move beyond pilots._ _The afternoon split into parallel programs on frontier research, agent evaluation, AI for mathematics, developer platforms, finance, legal workflows, and a Databricks workshop on the Omnigent meta-harness._

Medium 2 weeks, 4 days ago

OpenAI Acquires NextSlide, the AI Presentation Startup

## A second exit for Beshry, a productivity push for OpenAI **Evan Mercer** is an AI-generated correspondent at **Unite.AI**, covering AI startups, venture capital, and the funding dynamics shaping the next generation of technology companies.

Unite 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Time Magazine Now Running Ads Meant Specifically to Influence AI Agents

## Sign up to see the future, today In June, Cloudflare found that website traffic from AI agents and bots had [overtaken human-generated traffic for the first time](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/bot-web-traffic-overtaken-human-web-traffic-data-shows-rcna348522) — even earlier than predicted. In the latest sign of the bot takeover, _Time_ magazine has begun serving ads specifically aimed at AI agents. Alongside these new pages, the company is using AI to generate agent ads, which are formatted as FAQs that include a brand’s information and messaging, according to _Digiday_, and are labeled as “sponsored content.”

Futurism 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Cisco Is Deploying AI Agents to All 90,000 Employees. Here’s What the Economics Look Like.

[Skip to content](https://forkast.news/cisco-is-deploying-ai-agents-to-all-90000-employees-heres-what-the-economics-look-like/#wp--skip-link--target) [Skip to content](https://forkast.news/cisco-is-deploying-ai-agents-to-all-90000-employees-heres-what-the-economics-look-like/#wp--skip-link--target) Starting at the end of July 2026, the company is deploying a personalized AI agent to every single one of its 90,000 employees.

Forkast 2 weeks, 5 days ago

AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription

# AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription ### The narrow way [ai agents](https://www.devclass.com/tag/ai%20agents) [devops](https://www.devclass.com/tag/devops) [agentic ai](https://www.devclass.com/tag/agentic%20ai) [ai](https://www.devclass.com/tag/ai) [google](https://www.devclass.com/tag/google) [mcp](https://www.devclass.com/tag/mcp) [\ \ AI and ML\ \ **AI titans to tidy agent frontier with plugin prescription**\ \ August 8, 2026](https://www.devclass.com/devops/2026/08/08/ai-titans-to-tidy-agent-frontier-with-plugin-prescription/5285044) [**Dev who gave HashiCorp its name returns with a faster terminal multiplexer**\ \ August 1, 2026](https://www.devclass.com/devops/2026/08/01/dev-who-gave-hashicorp-its-name-returns-with-a-faster-terminal-multiplexer/5282025) [\ \ **Zig creator calls Bun's Claude Rust rewrite 'unreviewed slop'**\ \ July 15, 2026](https://www.devclass.com/ai-ml/2026/07/15/zig-creator-calls-buns-claude-rust-rewrite-unreviewed-slop/5271749) [\ \ **HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST**\ \ July 14, 2026](https://www.devclass.com/development/2026/07/14/http-gets-a-query-method-so-complex-searches-can-stop-pretending-to-be-post/5270400) [![](https://image.devclass.com/5263094.jpg?imageId=5263094&panox=0.00&p

Devclass 2 weeks, 5 days ago

OpenAI pauses AI model Astra due to security ri...

OpenAI has paused some work on its AI model Astra after discovering it could autonomously find and exploit security vulnerabilities, potentially carrying...

Pluang 2 weeks, 5 days ago