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A new report from the UK's AI Security Incident details a series of breaches by autonomous AI programs, including attempts at social engineering.
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# Atropos Health partners with Health Universe on AI clinical decision support Earlier this year, Health Universe [announced exclusively through _MobiHealthNews_](https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/exclusive-health-universe-raises-6m-ai-agents-medical-workflows) that it secured $6 million in seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins, bringing its total raise to $9.5 million. At the time, Dan Caron, founder and CEO of Health Universe, told _MobiHealthNews_ that the company would use the seed funding to expand its workforce and sales efforts, deepen oncology and clinical research integrations, and accelerate adoption of its AI agent infrastructure across healthcare and life sciences organizations. The company scored [$14 million in Series A funding](https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/biofourmis-scores-another-20m-and-more-digital-health-fundings) in 2022.
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Adtech startup Gravity raised $30.5M Series A to place ads in ChatGPT and other AI platforms. It is testing "agent-to-agent" ads that target AI bots,...
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# Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI ## Latest in AI ### [Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/naive-raises-28-5m-to-automate-the-grunt-work-of-setting-up-and-running-a-company/) **Image Credits:** Omilia [Fundraising](https://techcrunch.com/category/fundraising/) [Share on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F06%2Fomilia-raises-67m-to-scale-its-customer-support-platform%2F)[Share on X](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F06%2Fomilia-raises-67m-to-scale-its-customer-support-platform%2F&text=Omilia+raises+%2467M+to+scale+its+customer+support+platform&via=techcrunch)[Share on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F06%2Fomilia-raises-67m-to-scale-its-customer-support-platform%2F&title=Omilia+raises+%2467M+to+scale+its+customer+support+platform&summary=The+Series+B+is+the+company%27s+second+fundraise+since+it+last+raised+capital+in+2020.+In+that+time%2C+it+has+increased+its+ARR+by+10x+to+%2460+million.&mini=1&source=TechCrunch)[Share on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F06%2Fomilia-raises-67m-to-scale-its-customer-support-platform%2F&title=Omilia+raises+%2467M+to+scale+its+customer+support+platform)[Share over Email](mailto:?subject=Omilia+raises+%2467M+to+scale+its+customer+support+platform&body=Article%3A+https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F06%2Fomilia-raises-67m-to-scale-its-customer-support-platform%2F)[Copy Share Link](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/omilia-raises-67m-to-scale-its-customer-support-platform/)
# Freehand Secures $75M to Scale AI Teams Managing Supply Chain Spend for Fortune 500 Companies - Freehand, whose AI agents manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 enterprises, announced $75 million in funding co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation from Penny Pritzker’s PSP Growth, Nexus Venture Partners and others. PRESS RELEASE — [Freehand](https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=4Db68Q-wTbL_nGI_9uJgBfMQOHozVdSxSDG0IyJLqJsurdFanMZ5gCt2sRUjptSmMhoE6vdkF4O-zSOavfvm6A==), whose AI agents manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 enterprises, has announced $75 million in funding co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation from former U.S. This financing round follows Freehand’s recent emergence from stealth with global deployments at Meta, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Dunkin’ and Cardinal Health, as tariffs, taxes and immigration policies put increasing strain on the outsourcing model that has historically run global supply chains. Across early deployments, customers have recovered 5–10% of spend in complex categories, completed workflows 5–7x faster, and reduced procure-to-pay cycles by more than 70%. “Unlike co-pilots that simply answer questions, Freehand’s Agents have enterprise context, make decisions, and take actions — this agency unlocks millions in savings for enterprises.” Freehand builds autonomous AI agents that run supply-chain spend for the world’s largest enterprises — taking on procurement, supplier management, invoice and payment operations across complex categories such as logistics, direct materials and MRO. Headquartered in San Francisco, Freehand is backed by Battery Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, NewRoad Capital Partners and others.
# A startup that places ads for brands like Best Buy and Target in AI platforms raised $30.5 million Gravity offers a full-stack ad platform: a demand-side platform that helps advertisers place ads within [AI chatbots and to agents](https://www.businessinsider.com/ads-ai-agents-marketing-industry-debate-2026-8), a supply-side platform that helps developers of AI applications monetize through ads, and an exchange that connects the two. Gravity is also testing an "agent-to-agent" ad product that human users don't see. "Every time the agent is looking for shoes, it's given a list of all the different advertisers we have that are selling shoes," Oldham said. Down the road, Gravity plans to integrate direct payment solutions so an agent can make a purchase once the user gives the go-ahead.
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# Berlin Startup Raises $15M to Scale Enterprise AI Customer Agents 6 August 2026 Share [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.cryptonomist.ch%2F2026%2F08%2F06%2Fenterprise-ai-customer-agents%2F) [Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Berlin+Startup+Raises+%2415M+to+Scale+Enterprise+AI+Customer+Agents&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.cryptonomist.ch%2F2026%2F08%2F06%2Fenterprise-ai-customer-agents%2F&via=The+Cryptonomist) [Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2026/08/06/enterprise-ai-customer-agents/&media=https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/enterprise-ai-customer-agents.jpeg&description=Enterprise%20AI%20customer%20agents%20automate%20multi-channel%20interactions,%20boosting%20efficiency%20and%20supporting%20human%20teams%20in%20large%20enterprises.) [WhatsApp](https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=Berlin+Startup+Raises+%2415M+to+Scale+Enterprise+AI+Customer+Agents%20%0A%0A%20https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2026/08/06/enterprise-ai-customer-agents/) [More](https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2026/08/06/enterprise-ai-customer-agents/#) [](https://en.cryptonomist.ch/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/enterprise-ai-customer-agents.jpeg) Enterprise AI Customer Agents Transform Customer Support A Berlin-based startup just landed **$15 million** to prove that businesses don’t need to reinvent artificial intelligence from scratch to fix one of their oldest headaches: customer service that actually scales. telli, founded in 2024, has raised the seed round to expand its platform of **enterprise AI customer agents** that [handle voice calls](https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2026/08/06/institutional-real-estate-tokenization-saudi/), WhatsApp messages, live chat, and email on behalf of companies that would otherwise need armies of support staff. ## Key takeaways - telli raised **$15 mill
# Spotify Vets’ eCommerce-Focused AI Startup Raises $10 Million ## Get the Full Story The release also cites projections from McKinsey projects that [AI agents](https://www.pymnts.com/tag/ai-agents/) could orchestrate up to $1 trillion of U.S. retail by 2030, which makes understanding shopper behavior more valuable. “Consumers are also looking ahead: 64% expect to use [AI shopping agents](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/ai-voice-agents-take-over-the-retail-sales-floor/) within two years, especially for tasks such as comparing products, managing loyalty programs and handling returns,” PYMNTS wrote. #### Featured News [Item-Level Data Gives AI Agents Smarter Buying Power](https://www.pymnts.com/opinion/2026/item-level-data-gives-ai-agents-smarter-buying-power/)
Sapiom Raises $35 Million Series A To Scale AI Agent Infrastructure Sapiom has raised $35 million in Series A funding to expand its infrastructure platform for deploying, operating and scaling artificial intelligence agents. Dragonfly led the round, with participation from Accel, Gradient, Coinbase Ventures, Operator Collective, Formus Capital and VanEck Ventures. Existing investors Okta Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Anthropic and Array Ventures also participated. The financing follows Sapiom’s $15 million seed round completed six months earlier and brings the company’s total funding to $50 million less than a year after its founding. Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly, will join Sapiom’s board of directors as part of the financing. _“Agents are becoming employees with no manager and no budget, and increasingly, the CTO is the one acting as CFO, allocating real money with no visibility into where it goes.”_
Hark's Handoff browser agent claims a top Online-Mind2Web score, beating Anthropic and OpenAI, while pricing under a tenth of GPT-5.5's token cost.
# Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company So I wasn’t very surprised to hear that [Naïve](https://usenaive.ai/), which offers infrastructure that lets AI agents take on the bulk of the work involved in running a business, had signed up over 30,000 developer customers within months of its launch. Taking vibe coding a step further, the startup claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business — provided you supply the AI agents and the required token budget, of course. The rest of the set up can be done by your AI agents, including setting up email inboxes, virtual cards, phone numbers, databases, computing resources and connections to services such as Stripe and QuickBooks. The company also provides templates for businesses, such as AI SEO, full-stack SaaS apps, recruiting, accounting, customer support, and even a mobile emulator with which agents can operate smartphone apps on emulated devices. [AI](https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/), [AI agents](https://techcrunch.com/tag/ai-agents/), [AI infranstructure](https://techcrunch.com/tag/ai-infranstructure/), [Fundraising](https://techcrunch.com/category/fundraising/), [Startups](https://techcrunch.com/category/startups/)
The company is in talks with Mechanize, a San Francisco startup that trains AI agents to write software, [Business Insider reported](https://www.businessinsider.com/google-mechanize-deal-talent-tech-ai-coding-2026-8). ## The timing is brutal Meta just launched [its own coding agent](https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-muse-code-ai-coding-agent-launch).
# Israeli researchers uncover zero-click attacks targeting AI browsers ## Zenity Labs demonstrates vulnerabilities in Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, ChatGPT Atlas and Edge that allow attackers to hijack AI agents and access user data. - [Zenity raises $125 million Series C as AI agent security startup accelerates global expansion](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1ahbbcbfe)
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XDC co-founder Atul Khekade says AI has no transaction layer. Visa, Mastercard, Google and Ripple are racing to build one. Inside the agentic payments...
## InfoQ Software Architects' Newsletter [InfoQ Homepage](https://www.infoq.com/)[News](https://www.infoq.com/news)Pods as Workers, Not Agents: Rethinking the Deployment Unit for AI Agents on Kubernetes [Building AI Agent Evals for High-Stakes Incident Response (Webinar Aug 6th)](https://www.infoq.com/url/t/d11afba3-09f8-4d32-ae2d-da1ac283a89c/?label=Datadog-EventPromoBox) # Pods as Workers, Not Agents: Rethinking the Deployment Unit for AI Agents on Kubernetes ## About the Author #### **Mark Silvester** - Related Editorial - [Open-Source Agent Sandbox Enables Secure Deployment of AI Agents on Kubernetes](https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/agent-sandbox-kubernetes/)
Meta just dropped a bombshell that'll send shockwaves through the AI industry. The company disclosed that one of its AI models autonomously accessed the...
# Three’s company: Meta says its AI agents went rogue during testing, too By[Shubhangi Goel](https://www.businessinsider.com/author/shubhangi-goel) You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Follow  Meta has joined the cybersecurity mishap bandwagon.TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images Aug 5, 2026, 10:02 PM ET [Read in app](https://insider-app.onelink.me/4cpG/?af_js_web=true&af_ss_ver=2_3_0&af_dp=insider%3A%2F%2Fbi%2Fpost%2Fmeta-says-ai-agents-went-rogue-hack-testing-openai-anthropic-2026-8&af_force_deeplink=true&is_retargeting=true&deep_link_value=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fmeta-says-ai-agents-went-rogue-hack-testing-openai-anthropic-2026-8&pid=businessinsider&c=post_page_share_bar_v2_smart_4.13.23) SaveSaved 0 Listen to this story Meta has joined a growing list of companies saying their models hacked into an external company's system during cybersecurity testing. In a statement on Thursday, the social media company said its [Muse Spark model](https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-launches-muse-spark-1-1-cost-effective-ai-2026-7) "exploited a security vulnerability in a third-party service, in a manner similar to previously-reported instances with other companies." The Meta spokesperson said the breach occurred because of a misconfiguration by Irregular, an independent company Meta uses for model testing. Meta added that it learned of the incident when Irregular notified the company. In a statement to Business Insider on Wednesday, Irregular said the incident comes down to the same evaluation environment issue that Anthropic disclosed last week. "This did not involve a sandbox escape or a sophisticated cyber action. There are no current open issues," an Irregular spokesperson said. The Information first reported on the Meta AI model incident on Wednesday. Email addressSign up By clicking "Sign up",
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