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Rogue AI Agent Faked GitHub Identities to Push Malicious Code

A UK safety test let an AI agent build fake GitHub accounts and pressure a real developer into approving malicious code.

Google 5 days, 23 hours ago

How Vendor-Locked AI Coding Agents Are Quietly Raising Your Engineering Costs

# How Vendor-Locked AI Coding Agents Are Quietly Raising Your Engineering Costs Start with the prompts. ## The negotiation nobody tells founders to have [](https://startupfortune.com/north-v3-brings-azure-ai-and-data-spend-into-one-financial-view/)[AI](https://startupfortune.com/category/ai/) [North v3 Brings Azure, AI, and Data Spend Into One Financial View](https://startupfortune.com/north-v3-brings-azure-ai-and-data-spend-into-one-financial-view/)

Startupfortune 5 days, 23 hours ago

Youngest Chinese Tenured Professor in Japan Launches AI + New Materials Startup, 200+ Self-Developed Physical Models Cut R&D Cycle to 2 Months | 36Kr Exclusive

# The youngest Chinese tenured professor in Japan founded an AI + new materials startup, with more than 200 self-developed physical models that shorten the R&D cycle to only two months | 36Kr Exclusive The raised funds will be mainly used to deepen the full-link R&D closed loop of "data - physical model - AI agent - automated experiment", accelerate the pilot test and industrialization implementation of key materials such as solid electrolytes, and introduce interdisciplinary talents in AI and materials science. **At the AI agent level,** MatSource has developed more than a dozen dedicated AI agents for specific material R&D scenarios, covering directions such as solid electrolytes, hydrogen energy electrocatalysis, ionic liquids, photoresists, thermal catalysis, molecular sieves, organic electrosynthesis and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. These agents are not general large models, but vertical domain experts trained on real experimental data and physical models. The company recently released the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis AI agent, which enables targeted R&D empowerment for this important industrial catalytic reaction. **At the high-throughput automated experiment level,** MatSource has launched the world's first AI Agent-driven high-throughput automated experimental platform for inorganic solid-phase / solid-liquid phase synthesis. After the completion of this round of financing, MatSource plans to continue to expand the database to the ten million level, break through 250 physical models, improve the AI agent matrix and the construction of high-throughput automated intelligent laboratories, and accelerate the full-chain implementation of key materials from R&D to industrialization. Based on the database, we have derived more than 200 physical models and trained accurate AI agents at the same time.

Eu 6 days ago

Companies’ Sharing of AI Agents Risks More Tax Fights

Multinationals sharing proprietary AI agents among their subsidiaries risk the possibility of more disputes with tax authorities as questions arise about...

News 6 days ago

Binance Launches Agent OS: AI Agents Can Trade Directly, With Permissions and Fund Ranges Set by Users

Binance can monitor final executions, but cannot gain visibility into agents' external information sources and decision-making processes.

Techflowpost 6 days, 3 hours ago

AI startup linked to OpenAI, Anthropic hacks releases post-incident report: Key findings

AI companies and their security contractors are coming under intense scrutiny following self-reported security breaches during model evaluations.

Indianexpress 6 days, 7 hours ago

Every VC CX deal you need to know: August 21 | CX Network

## **Queen One Raises $25m from more than six investors** Queen One has raised US$25 million to scale its commercial organization, accelerate investments across its AI infrastructure for commerce and launch its new advertising business. The business, which developed the retail industry's first fully AI-governed commerce CRM, raised the new funds from Mercury Fund, Full In, Connecticut Innovations, CP Overture, Charge Ventures, Inspired Capital, and existing investors. The capital boost brings total funding to more than $37.5 million in external venture investment and performance-based incentives. Queen One was founded by ex-Wunderkind executives Ryan Urban and Maricor Resente, who generated more than $35 billion of attributed revenue for clients. ## **Xpander raises $7.5m in Seed round as it unveils agentic FDE** Xpander, a San Francisco-based startup that helps organizations build, run, secure, and govern [AI agents](https://www.cxnetwork.com/guides/ai-agents-for-customer-experience-a-complete-guide) across products, workflows, and internal data, raised a $7.5 million in a Seed round led by Pico Venture Partners with Emerge Ventures, Samsung Next, and SeedIL also participating. Xpander bridges the gap many organizations encounter when trying to scale AI pilots. It helps organizations overcome the infrastructure, security, and governance challenges that have historically limited enterprise AI adoption. But its big draw is Omni, an [agentic forward deployed engineer](https://www.cxnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/articles/role-designed-for-cx-ai-forward-deployed-engineer), which achieved a 90.9 percent score on the GAIA benchmark. Whether creating an AI teammate for every employee, enabling every team to build its own agents, or ensuring every process is with AI built in, Omni simplifies the most complex user tasks into simple and autonomous, while also supporting collaborative multi-agent workflows to meet business objectives. Founded by David Twizer, Ran

Cxnetwork 6 days, 8 hours ago

Broadcom in Talks for $60B+ AI Chip Financing

Broadcom is in discussions to secure over $60 billion in debt financing for AI chip deals, aiming to support companies like Anthropic and underscoring the...

Startuphub 6 days, 8 hours ago

Binance Launches Agent OS Letting AI Agents Access Market Data and Execute Crypto Trades: 15 outlets compared

# Binance Launches Agent OS Letting AI Agents Access Market Data and Execute Crypto Trades 20 August, 2026. Here is what they published. [bitcoin.es↗](https://bitcoin.es/mercados/binance-abre-el-comercio-de-criptomonedas-a-agentes-de-ia-con-controles-definidos-por-el-usuario-mt1z7xtp) [Cointelegraph↗](https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-opens-crypto-trading-to-ai-agents-with-user-set-controls) [PR Newswire↗](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/binance-introduces-agent-os-to-connect-ai-applications-to-financial-infrastructure-302856306.html) [bloomingbit↗](https://en.bloomingbit.io/feed/news/118765) [![](https://newscord.org/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft1.gstatic.com%2FfaviconV2%3Fclient%3DSOCIAL%26type%3DFAVICON%26fallback_opts%3DTYPE%2CSIZE%2CURL%26url%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.unite.

Newscord 6 days, 10 hours ago

The Built Environment Will Be the First Place AI Agents Actually Work

### Insights from JLL's CTO, GGP's VP of IT In my company, Vantaca, our Agentic AI built for community and property management is moving beyond drafting and suggesting to owning entire workflows end-to-end, and the companies deploying it are seeing measurable gains in capacity that horizontal co-pilots cannot replicate. agents have automated more than one million tasks and returned over 100,000 hours to management company staff. [Share on X](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=The+Built+Environment+Will+Be+the+First+Place+AI+Agents+Actually+Work&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpropmodo.com%2Fthe-built-environment-will-be-the-first-place-ai-agents-actually-work%2F&via=propmodo)[Share on Linkedin](https://linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpropmodo.com%2Fthe-built-environment-will-be-the-first-place-ai-agents-actually-work%2F&title=The+Built+Environment+Will+Be+the+First+Place+AI+Agents+Actually+Work)[Share on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpropmodo.com%2Fthe-built-environment-will-be-the-first-place-ai-agents-actually-work%2F&title=The+Built+Environment+Will+Be+the+First+Place+AI+Agents+Actually+Work)[Email](mailto:?subject=The%20Built%20Environment%20Will%20Be%20the%20First%20Place%20AI%20Agents%20Actually%20Work%20|%20Propmodo&body=I%20found%20this%20article%20interesting%20and%20thought%20of%20sharing%20it%20with%20you.%20Check%20it%20out:%0A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fpropmodo.com%2Fthe-built-environment-will-be-the-first-place-ai-agents-actually-work%2F)[Copy Link](https://propmodo.com/the-built-environment-will-be-the-first-place-ai-agents-actually-work/#)[More](https://propmodo.com/the-built-environment-will-be-the-first-place-ai-agents-actually-work/#)

Propmodo 6 days, 10 hours ago

Natural lands $100m Upper90 facility for AI payments

# Agent payments start-up Natural lands $100m Upper90 facility [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https://www.fintechfutures.com/venture-capital-funding/natural-100m-credit-facility-upper90)[Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.fintechfutures.com/venture-capital-funding/natural-100m-credit-facility-upper90)[Twitter](http://www.twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.fintechfutures.com/venture-capital-funding/natural-100m-credit-facility-upper90)[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https://www.fintechfutures.com/venture-capital-funding/natural-100m-credit-facility-upper90&title=Agent%20payments%20start-up%20Natural%20lands%20%24100m%20Upper90%20facility)[Bluesky](https://bsky.app/intent/compose?text=Agent%20payments%20start-up%20Natural%20lands%20%24100m%20Upper90%20facility%20-%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fintechfutures.com%2Fventure-capital-funding%2Fnatural-100m-credit-facility-upper90) Silicon Valley start-up Natural has agreed a credit facility of up to $100 million with Upper90 Capital Management to fund its proprietary vertical technology stack enabling AI agents to hold and transact with real money. Natural's website however indicates an upcoming expansion into autonomous billing functions, card issuance, payment acceptance, and importantly, lines of credit for AI agents. It was who shared our view of where this is going, and who could scale with us from our first million dollars of deployed credit to our first billion." The facility with Upper90 sits alongside the $40 million Natural has raised in equity to date. This figure includes a $10 million seed round, secured during the week of inception, and a[$30 million Series A round](https://www.fintechfutures.com/venture-capital-funding/natural-bags-30m-launches-agentic-payments-infrastructure) closed in July. The Series A was led by Forerunner, with support from Human Capital, SV Angel, Abstract, Genius Ventures, Torch Capital, Restive Ventures, and

Fintechfutures 6 days, 10 hours ago

Palantir Boosts Agentic AI Software Security Capabi…

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Startuphub 6 days, 10 hours ago

How AI Agent Data Residency Actually Works When Your Vendor Won't Say

[Share on X](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstartupfortune.com%2Fhow-ai-agent-data-residency-actually-works-when-your-vendor-wont-say%2F&text=How%20AI%20Agent%20Data%20Residency%20Actually%20Works%20When%20Your%20Vendor%20Won%27t%20Say%20-%20Startup%20Fortune)[Share on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fstartupfortune.com%2Fhow-ai-agent-data-residency-actually-works-when-your-vendor-wont-say%2F)[Share on WhatsApp](https://wa.me/?text=How%20AI%20Agent%20Data%20Residency%20Actually%20Works%20When%20Your%20Vendor%20Won%27t%20Say%20-%20Startup%20Fortune%20https%3A%2F%2Fstartupfortune.com%2Fhow-ai-agent-data-residency-actually-works-when-your-vendor-wont-say%2F)[Share on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstartupfortune.com%2Fhow-ai-agent-data-residency-actually-works-when-your-vendor-wont-say%2F&title=How%20AI%20Agent%20Data%20Residency%20Actually%20Works%20When%20Your%20Vendor%20Won%27t%20Say%20-%20Startup%20Fortune)[Share via Email](mailto:?subject=How%20AI%20Agent%20Data%20Residency%20Actually%20Works%20When%20Your%20Vendor%20Won%27t%20Say%20-%20Startup%20Fortune&body=https%3A%2F%2Fstartupfortune.com%2Fhow-ai-agent-data-residency-actually-works-when-your-vendor-wont-say%2F) # How AI Agent Data Residency Actually Works When Your Vendor Won't Say A founder selling an AI agent into a bank, a hospital system, or a European manufacturer eventually hits the same wall.

Startupfortune 6 days, 11 hours ago

Slack Brings AI Agents To Workspaces. But Can It Take On Teams?

# Slack Brings AI Agents To Workspaces. But Can It Take On Teams? ## The AI Code Race ### [Indonesian Billionaire’s Chandra Asri To Buy Jardine Cycle & Carriage’s Auto Dealership In Malaysia, Singapore](http://www.forbes.com/sites/yessarrosendar/2026/08/21/indonesian-billionaires-chandra-asri-to-buy-jardine-cycle--carriages-auto-dealership-in-malaysia-singapore/) “Now I can actually tag in a designer to be like, ‘hey, like can you share the components you think the agent should use for this?’ And I can tag in engineers, and the engineers can slap my hand and be like, ‘I will work with the agent to clean this up’, and then we can ship something that’s like more viable than it was before.” Steigman notes that Slack is positioning itself as a “neutral platform” for agentic work, offering an experience that is designed to be independent of the model or agents chosen by the end user. reCAPTCHA Recaptcha requires verification. protected by **reCAPTCHA** The Prompt: Get the week’s biggest AI news on the buzziest companies and boldest breakthroughs, in your inbox. Email Address Sign Up You’re Subscribed! You’re Subscribed! For instance, users can tag in coding agents like Claude or Cognitions Devin, and then the tagged agent will spin up a code channel to perform the assigned task without leaving Slack. She added that customers including Anthropic, OpenAI and Cognition are “doing most of their coding in Slack,” clarifying that all initial launch partners were implementing code channels internally and providing feedback. ## Join The Conversation Premium Journalism, deeply reported stories and breaking news | | | | |-|-|-| |  | ![](https://www.google.com/recaptcha/

Forbes 6 days, 12 hours ago

AI agents are learning to cheat: What does this mean for business?

# AI agents are learning to cheat: What does this mean for business? ## The latest Business news: - [](https://www.digitaljournal.com/article/ai-agents-are-learning-to-cheat-what-does-this-mean-for-business/) ### [Is .AI the new .com? How artificial intelligence is reshaping the market for digital real estate](https://www.digitaljournal.com/article/is-ai-the-new-com-how-artificial-intelligence-is-reshaping-the-market-for-digital-real-estate/) August 19, 2026 10:49 PM EDT

Digitaljournal 6 days, 13 hours ago

AI Agent Research Advances: Operational Fixes and S…

# AI Agent Research Advances: Operational Fixes and Self-Improvement ### Related startups [\ \ **Starburst Data** \ \ Unify your data for instant insights.\ \ Data Management\ \ Big Data\ \ $414M](https://www.startuphub.ai/startups/starburst-data) [Visit website](https://starburst.io/) [\ \ **Runway** \ \ Runway is a global AI research and technology company building foundational AI models and tools to create multimodal simulators of the world, empowering anyone to make anything.\ \ Artificial Intelligence\ \ Generative AI\ \ $315M](https://www.startuphub.ai/startups/runway) [Visit website](https://runway.com/) [\ \ **Decagon AI** \ \ AI concierge platform for customer interactions.\ \ Artificial Intelligence\ \ Customer Service\ \ $250M](https://www.startuphub.ai/startups/decagon-ai-inc) [Visit website](https://www.decagon.ai/) [\ \ **Nectar AI** \ \ AI Girlfriend Creator\ \ Partner](https://www.startuphub.ai/dq4dd/JTdCJTIyYSUyMiUzQSUyMjEwNjA2MjMlMjIlMkMlMjJ1JTIyJTNBJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ0cnluZWN0YXIuYWklMkZjcmVhdGUlMkYlM0ZfZWZfdHJhbnNhY3Rpb25faWQlM0QlMjZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ24lM0QlMjZ1dG1fc291cmNlJTNEYWZmaWxpYXRlJTI2dXRtX21lZGl1bSUzRHJlZmVycmFsJTI2dWlkJTNEMTAlMjZvaWQlM0Q1JTI2YWZmaWQlM0QyMDElMjIlMkMlMjJ2JTIyJTNBJTIyZDdhZmE0MzQtNWNiZS00ZDlhLWFjODctMmNkZmE5ZWJjMDE0JTIyJTJDJTIycCUyMiUzQSUyMmh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGd3d3LnN0YXJ0dXBodWIuYWklMkZhaS1uZXdzJTJGYXJ0aWZpY2lhbC1pbnRlbGxpZ2VuY2UlMkYyMDI2JTJGYWktYWdlbnQtcmVzZWFyY2gtYWR2YW5jZXMtb3BlcmF0aW9uYWwtZml4ZXMtYW5kLXNlbGYtaW1wcm92ZW1lbnQlMjIlN0Q) ## Track what is happening across AI © 2026 [StartupHub.ai](https

Startuphub 6 days, 14 hours ago

Clark, Amazon Web Services convene inaugural AI Agents Academy

# Clark, Amazon Web Services convene inaugural AI Agents Academy August 20, 2026 [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?t=Clark%2C+Amazon+Web+Services+convene+inaugural+AI+Agents+Academy&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.clarku.edu%2Fnews%2F2026%2F08%2F20%2Fclark-amazon-web-services-convene-inaugural-ai-agents-academy%2F) [X](https://x.com/intent/post?text=Clark%2C+Amazon+Web+Services+convene+inaugural+AI+Agents+Academy&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.clarku.edu%2Fnews%2F2026%2F08%2F20%2Fclark-amazon-web-services-convene-inaugural-ai-agents-academy%2F)  Clark University, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), convened more than 400 leaders from over 100 universities, healthcare organizations, foundations, and nonprofits for an inaugural AI Agents Academy in downtown Worcester on Tuesday, August 18. The academy brought together advancement leaders, nonprofit executives, technologists, and institutional decision-makers from across the country to explore how AI is reshaping fundraising, alumni engagement, operations, communications, and organizational design. Participants engaged in day-long discussions that involved case studies, demonstrations, and hands-on learning exercises focused on the opportunities and challenges presented by AI Agents; sessions explored human + AI organizational design, fundraising, advancement operations, workflow automation, governance, ethics, institutional risk, and practical roadmaps for AI adoption. President David Fithian Event attendees shared examples of how AI is already transforming work traditionally performed by administrative, operational, and research teams. Speakers from Clark University, Amazon Web Service

Clarku 6 days, 15 hours ago

NeuBird AI sets trust model for production AI agents

NeuBird AI has published an open framework for governing autonomous agents' write access in production environments. It describes the model as a shared...

Itbrief 6 days, 15 hours ago

'Rogue' AI agent went haywire at tech company. The CEO is still 'bullish' on the technology

# 'Rogue' AI agent went haywire at tech company. The CEO is still 'bullish' on the technology - Aug 17]([https://abcnews.com/US/hayden-panettiere-dies-36/story?id=135698473](https://abcnews.com/US/hayden-panettiere-dies-36/story?id=135698473)) - 11 hours ago]([https://abcnews.com/International/live-updates/iran-live-updates-tehran-adopt-offensive-aspect-irgc/?id=135700072](https://abcnews.com/International/live-updates/iran-live-updates-tehran-adopt-offensive-aspect-irgc/?id=135700072)) [\ \ **Jared Kushner traveling in Egypt and Israel this week**\ \ - Aug 16]([https://abcnews.com/International/live-updates/iran-live-updates-negotiations-us-messages-exchanged-tehran/?id=135508900](https://abcnews.com/International/live-updates/iran-live-updates-negotiations-us-messages-exchanged-tehran/?id=135508900)) ## Related Topics - [Artificial Intelligence](https://abcnews.com/alerts/ArtificialIntelligence)  ## Sponsored Content by Taboola [\ \ **Jared Kushner traveling in Egypt and Israel this week**\ \ - Aug 16]([https://abcnews.com/International/live-updates/iran-live-updates-negotiations-us-messages-exchanged-tehran/?id=135508900](https://abcnews.com/International/live-updates/iran-live-updates-negotiations-us-messages-exchanged-tehran/?id=135508900)) - 11 hours ago]([https://abcnews.com/International/live-updates/iran-live-updates-tehran-adopt-offensive-aspect-irgc/?id=135700072](https://abcnews.com/International/live-updates/iran-live-updates-tehran-adopt-offensive-aspect-irgc/?id=135700072)) ### ABC News Live  24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events ![GMA logo](htt

Abcnews 6 days, 16 hours ago

NanoClaw comes to Slack, letting you create persistent AI agent teams and colleagues from a single message

Now [NanoCo](https://nanoco.ai/)., the company behind the hit open source, enterprise-friendly, autonomous AI agent harness [NanoClaw](https://nanoclaw.dev/) (a more sandboxed, lower code version of OpenClaw), is hoping to make it just as easy as typing a Slack message.

Venturebeat 6 days, 16 hours ago

Graph engineering is where AI agents stop working alone

# Graph engineering is where AI agents stop working alone Aug 20, 20264 mins ## Show me more [brandpostSponsored by Atlassian\ \ **Graph engineering is where AI agents stop working alone** \ \ By Atlassian\ \ Aug 20, 20264 mins\ \ Artificial Intelligence\ \ ](https://www.cio.com/article/4212069/graph-engineering-is-where-ai-agents-stop-working-alone.html) [video\ \ **CoreWeave ARENA helps developers move AI apps into production** \ \ Aug 18, 202615 mins\ \ Artificial IntelligenceDeveloperSoftware Development\ \ ](https://www.cio.com/video/4211073/coreweave-arena-helps-developers-move-ai-apps-into-production.html) [video\ \ **How Lyzr helps CIOs build AI agents they can actually govern** \ \ Aug 13, 202621 mins\ \ Artificial IntelligenceDeveloperSoftware Development\ \ ](https://www.cio.com/video/4209259/how-lyzr-helps-cios-build-ai-agents-they-can-actually-govern.html) [video\ \ **How Leapwork's Play automates enterprise software testing** \ \ Aug 11, 202623 mins\ \ Artificial IntelligenceQuality AssuranceSoftware Deployment\ \ ](https://www.cio.com/video/4208033/how-leapwork-ai-studio-automates-enterprise-software-testing.html)

Cio 6 days, 17 hours ago

NeuBird AI Publishes Open Framework for Earned Agent Autonomy in Production Environments

NeuBird AI, creator of the autonomous Production Ops Agent, published the Earned Autonomy Framework, a set of open architectural principles defining how...

Businesswire 6 days, 17 hours ago

AI Agents Autonomously Hacked Taiwan's Government for Four Days Straight

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Startupfortune 6 days, 17 hours ago

NeoSoul Raises $11 Million in Pre-A Funding to Accelerate Its Expansion in the AI Economy

# NeoSoul Raises $11 Million in Pre-A Funding to Accelerate Its Expansion in the AI Economy  Advertorial [NeoSoul](https://neosoul.ai/) announced the completion of an [$11 million](https://x.com/NeoSoulAI/status/2090338023607345465?s=20) Pre-A funding round, with participation from MH Ventures, Amber Group, ArkStream Capital, 0G Foundation, Kirin Capital, CatcherVC, and New Oak International. The new capital will support the continued development of NeoSoul’s agentic trading products and broader AI economy infrastructure. The financing follows the launch of NeoTrade, NeoSoul’s agentic trading workbench. The round brings together investors spanning digital assets, Web3 infrastructure, decentralized AI, and capital markets across Asia and North America. Kirin Capital, a key investor in the round with a long-standing presence in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, will further support NeoSoul’s expansion across Vietnam and the broader Southeast Asian market. Following this round, NeoSoul will continue building the infrastructure needed for AI agents to participate in economic activity at scale.” Several investors in the round noted that as AI agents begin participating in real economic activity, capital controls, trade execution, and risk management are emerging as critical infrastructure requirements. Through NeoTrade, NeoSoul has already brought agentic trading into a usable product and is using that foundation to expand into broader infrastructure for the AI economy. ## About New Oak International [![Stani Kulechov: How Aave Processed $500M in Liquidations Without Breaking](https://beincrypto.com/_mfes/post/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.youtube.com%2Fvi%2FXuxbaLx-7BM%2Fhqdefault.jpg&w=1080&q=7

Beincrypto 6 days, 18 hours ago

Natural lands $100m credit line for AI agent payments

**[Natural](https://www.natural.com/), a start-up developing the underlying payments infrastructure for AI agents, has agreed a credit facility of up to $100m with Upper90 Capital Management, LP.** The new funding is intended to boost Natural’s capacity to meet the expanding capital requirements of its payments and credit offerings, as AI agents take on a larger role as active participants in the global economy. Across its business, Natural is building out the full payments stack so that AI agents can move funds, draw on credit, take in payments, and carry out transactions autonomously throughout the global economy. Natural CEO and Co-founder Kahlil Lalji said, “We believe agents will become the primary financial actors of the global economy, and the infrastructure supporting them will need to operate at a scale that’s difficult to comprehend today. ### [Mercury puts AI agents on the company spending line](https://fintech.global/2026/08/12/mercury-puts-ai-agents-on-the-company-spending-line/) [](https://fintech.global/2026/08/11/chainit-joins-u-s-bank-connected-partnership-network/) [FinTech News](https://fintech.global/category/fintech-news/)

Fintech 6 days, 18 hours ago

New American Funding Extends AI Push To Borrower Calls

New American Funding is extending its artificial intelligence strategy directly into borrower conversations, partnering with Kastle to deploy voice agents...

Nationalmortgageprofessional 6 days, 18 hours ago

New American Funding partners with Kastle to deploy AI agents

## Article Summary New American Funding partnered with Kastle to expand enterprise AI use with voice agents that handle end-to-end customer interactions and 24/7 self-service. The AI agents are designed to allow New American Funding to handle more calls while freeing operations teams to focus on complex customer situations. In February, **Longbridge Financial** [launched AI-powered voice agents](https://www.housingwire.com/articles/longbridge-ai-reverse-mortgage/) developed by an outside technology partner to handle routine reverse mortgage servicing tasks.

Housingwire 6 days, 18 hours ago

The Enterprise Journey, Reimagined with AI Agents

## Build the next big thing With support from [Microsoft for Startups](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/startups?wt.mc_id=maven_signup_blog_mfsmktg), Maven has built its platform on [Microsoft Azure](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us) and is using AI to help enterprises improve customer satisfaction, increase operational efficiency, and give agents the right instructions for the exact moment in front of it. ## **Building AI agents that resolve customer issues** Maven was founded in 2023 by Jonathan Corbin, Sami Shalabi, and Eugene Mann. Corbin spent more than two decades building and scaling customer-facing organizations, most recently as Global VP of Customer Success and Strategy at HubSpot, with earlier roles at Adobe, Marketo, and Sprinklr. When he saw GPT-4 for the first time, he realized the constraints that had defined customer experience for years were suddenly gone. The three founders spent a weekend in a room with no slides, just product thinking, and came away convinced the technology had finally caught up to a problem they had all lived inside for years: fragmented customer journeys and support agents juggling seven to nine disconnected systems to answer a single question, producing slow, inaccurate responses that eroded customer trust at the moment it mattered most. Today, Maven’s AI agents help organizations automate customer interactions across chat, voice, email, and SMS while integrating directly into existing support, sales, and marketing workflows. We’re finally at a point where AI can reason through complexity, take action across systems, and deliver a real outcome. **Jonathan Corbin, CEO, Maven** ## **Building secure enterprise AI on Microsoft Azure** 

Microsoft 6 days, 18 hours ago

How Mastercard CEO is preparing for a world where AI agents do the shopping

# How Mastercard CEO is preparing for a world where AI agents do the shopping - [](https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/credit-cards/article/mastercard-ceo-says-ai-agents-could-soon-do-your-shopping-114908816.html)

Finance 6 days, 19 hours ago

Army Cyber training AI agents in cyber ‘work roles’ alongside human counterparts

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Army Cyber Command is training AI agents in various “work roles” to serve alongside humans to operate at machine speed, according to its commander. AI agents are performing critical work such as hunting on the network for cyber threat and intrusions, Eubank said.

Breakingdefense 6 days, 20 hours ago