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# Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war. [Rebecca Bellan](https://techcrunch.com/author/rebecca-bellan/) 11:28 AM PDT · August 13, 2026 [Share on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F13%2Fanthropic-set-ai-agents-loose-on-the-same-task-they-started-a-turf-war%2F)[Share on X](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F13%2Fanthropic-set-ai-agents-loose-on-the-same-task-they-started-a-turf-war%2F&text=Anthropic+set+AI+agents+loose+on+the+same+task.+They+started+a+turf+war.&via=techcrunch)[Share on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F13%2Fanthropic-set-ai-agents-loose-on-the-same-task-they-started-a-turf-war%2F&title=Anthropic+set+AI+agents+loose+on+the+same+task.+They+started+a+turf+war.&summary=Anthropic+researchers+found+AI+agents+can+clash%2C+collude%2C+and+coordinate+in+unexpected+ways%2C+raising+new+questions+about+whether+today%E2%80%99s+safety+tests+capture+the+risks+of+multi-agent+systems.&mini=1&source=TechCrunch)[Share on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F13%2Fanthropic-set-ai-agents-loose-on-the-same-task-they-started-a-turf-war%2F&title=Anthropic+set+AI+agents+loose+on+the+same+task.+They+started+a+turf+war.)[Share over Email](mailto:?subject=Anthropic+set+AI+agents+loose+on+the+same+task.+They+started+a+turf+war.&body=Article%3A+https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F13%2Fanthropic-set-ai-agents-loose-on-the-same-task-they-started-a-turf-war%2F)[Copy Share Link](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/anthropic-set-ai-agents-loose-on-the-same-task-they-started-a-turf-war/) What happens when you pit AI agents against each other? According to Anthropic’s testing, things get messy fast. On Thursday, Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published [new research](https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems) examining how group
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# Scaling AI hinges on the enterprise data layer ## Company Announcements ### [Amazon cuts 16K jobs citing ongoing culture shift](https://www.ciodive.com/news/amazon-layoffs-16k-jobs-AI-culture-shift/810747/) - [](https://www.ciodive.com/news/scaling-ai-hinges-enterprise-data-layer/827822/)
# Databricks raised $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation as AI agent demand soared The data and AI company also crossed a $7 billion revenue run rate, growing more than 80% year over year in its second quarter [ByCris Tolomia](https://qz.com/author/cristolomia)·2 min read·Updated August 13, 2026 [Share via Email](mailto:?subject=Databricks%20raised%20%245%20billion%20at%20a%20%24190%20billion%20valuation%20as%20AI%20agent%20demand%20soared&body=The%20data%20and%20AI%20company%20also%20crossed%20a%20%247%20billion%20revenue%20run%20rate%2C%20growing%20more%20than%2080%25%20year%20over%20year%20in%20its%20second%20quarter%20https%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2Fdatabricks-funding-round-190-billion-valuation-081326%3Futm_medium%3Dsharefromsite%26utm_source%3Dquartz_email) [Share on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2Fdatabricks-funding-round-190-billion-valuation-081326%3Futm_medium%3Dsharefromsite%26utm_source%3Dquartz_facebook)[Share on X](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2Fdatabricks-funding-round-190-billion-valuation-081326%3Futm_medium%3Dsharefromsite%26utm_source%3Dquartz_twitter&text=Databricks%20raised%20%245%20billion%20at%20a%20%24190%20billion%20valuation%20as%20AI%20agent%20demand%20soared)[Share on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2Fdatabricks-funding-round-190-billion-valuation-081326%3Futm_medium%3Dsharefromsite%26utm_source%3Dquartz_linkedin)[Share on Bluesky](https://bsky.app/intent/compose?text=Databricks%20raised%20%245%20billion%20at%20a%20%24190%20billion%20valuation%20as%20AI%20agent%20demand%20soared%20https%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2Fdatabricks-funding-round-190-billion-valuation-081326%3Futm_medium%3Dsharefromsite%26utm_source%3Dquartz_bluesky)  Bloomberg / Getty Images Databricks [closed a $5 billion funding round]
## Sign up to see the future, today Since everything is behind the screen, students can ask an AI agent to log into learning platforms like Canvas and Blackboard and complete quizzes for then, watch lecture videos, write papers, and even pose as the student and participate in discussions, a type of assignment in which they’re expected to chat with classmates and sometimes the professor about assigned reading. Perplexity, the company behind an AI web browser, told the _NYT_ in a statement that requiring AI agents to identify themselves on learning platforms “would put the student’s privacy and security at risk.” “I’m not getting any guidance on how to dissuade their use,” added Carol Sewell at the California State University system, which [signed a multimillion dollar deal with OpenAI last year](https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/california-state-university-openai-deal-disaster).
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DIA, NGA and the FBI are building the infrastructure and guardrails needed for increasingly autonomous artificial intelligence.
For the past few days, the cybersecurity world has been flooded with headlines about autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents being used in attacks against public and private computer networks. First came reports involving an AI agent associated with Microsoft-owned [OpenAI](https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/was-openai-autonomous-cyberattack-on-hugging-face-a-publicity-stunt/), followed by concerns surrounding Anthropic’s Claude.
# Databricks Grows >80% YoY, Surpasses $7B Revenue Run-Rate, Scales Lakebase, Genie, and Unity AI Gateway - _Closes $5 billion strategic funding at a $190 billion valuation, led by Coatue, along with Blackstone, MGX, T. Rowe Price, and new investor Sixth Street Growth_ - _Deepens investment in Lakebase, Genie, and Unity AI Gateway, equipping enterprise AI agents with context, control, choice, and cost optimization_ Building on this momentum, the company closed a $5 billion strategic funding round at a $190 billion valuation. The investment will drive continued innovation across [Lakebase](https://www.databricks.com/product/lakebase), its serverless Postgres database built for AI agents, [Genie](https://www.databricks.com/product/genie/one), Databricks’ AI coworker that turns business data into trusted answers and actions, and [Unity AI Gateway](https://www.databricks.com/product/artificial-intelligence/unity-ai-gateway), for multi-AI governance and cost controls. Today, companies have a new set of employees to support: AI agents. They want agents working across their business that remember context, deliver accurate answers, and execute work without blowing through their budgets,” said **Ali Ghodsi, Co-founder and CEO of Databricks**. The tremendous investor demand for this round shows that our AI strategy is winning the market and building what every business needs to maximize their impact with agents.” We've been investors since 2019, and results like that are why we're proud to lead this round today and keep building with them.”
# Guardrails Won’t Always Stop Customer AI Agents. Is Your Enterprise Ready? xAI has introduced Grok Bot as an always-on, cloud-based AI teammate that can sign into users’ tools, work inside them and complete tasks autonomously without the user’s computer remaining active. The company has already introduced Grok Automations, which can run jobs on schedules or when emails arrive, while Grok Build supports long-running autonomous execution for coding tasks.
# CrowdStrike Holdings (CRWD) Gains as Autonomous AI Agents Go Mainstream Thu, August 13, 2026 at 9:41 AM EDT3 min read On August 12, 2026, CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. In April Anthropic released its Mythos model, and Anthropic granted early access to Mythos to several large cybersecurity companies and other institutions allowing them to use the LLM to detect vulnerabilities before a broader release. [](https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/DA1B5E8735A63FC34E4DC9BAD0AABAFC37321311648902CD798D87F467C5E858/subgraphmysterio/resizefit_w960;quality_80;format_webp/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Finsidermonkey.com%2F7747a035deba38791b8d49bb9057930e.jpg) (CRWD): I Sold Some For My Trust, Says Jim Cramer
- The funding comes six months after closing a round that valued it at $134 billion. Databricks on Thursday said it closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation to invest in enterprise AI capabilities. The company’s recent [Lakebase](https://www.databricks.com/blog/databricks-lakebase-generally-available) database for AI agents has already surpassed a $100 million revenue run rate, Databricks said. The funding round comes six months after the private data analytics software company raised $5 billion in funding and $2 billion in new debt capacity at a $134 billion valuation. ## Read more CNBC tech news Rowe Price and Sixth Street Growth led the funding round.
# China-Linked Autonomous Cyberattack on Taiwan Explained ## The multi-agent attack system It was back in July 2026 that DREAM Lab’s Threat Research stumbled upon “the complete operational workspace of an [autonomous AI attack](https://cybermagazine.com/news/ai-agents-drive-first-large-scale-autonomous-cyberattack) framework”. ## Agents that researched, prioritised and bettered themselves Ian Robinson, CPO at Titania
# Exclusive: OpenAI and xAI insiders back Lemma’s $2.3M pre-seed to catch AI agents failing in production - Lemma has raised $2.3 million in pre-seed funding to find and fix silent failures in AI agents. Customers just stop coming back, so development teams have no way to see what went wrong. [Lemma](https://www.uselemma.ai/) wants to solve this problem with its $2.3 million pre-seed funding. The round included Matrix, Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Vermilion Cliffs Ventures, Irregular Expressions, Cervin Ventures, Comma Capital, Position Ventures, and Eight Capital, along with angel investors from [OpenAI](https://techfundingnews.com/openai-closes-7b-tender-offer-at-852b-valuation-ahead-of-potential-ipo/), xAI, Meta, and [DoorDash](https://techfundingnews.com/doordash-partners-with-meta-to-test-delivery-of-facebook-marketplace-items/). ## How Lemma works FriskAI [raised $3.6 million in pre-seed funding from MaC Venture Capital](https://techfundingnews.com/friskai-raises-3-6m-from-mac-venture-capital-to-watch-what-ai-agents-do/) to monitor agent behavior. Tsuga, a Paris-based company founded by former Datadog engineers, [raised $35 million in Series A funding](https://techfundingnews.com/ex-datadog-founders-raise-35m-tsuga-observability/) to keep telemetry inside customers’ cloud environments. ## Investors and next steps The funding will help Lemma develop its product and expand its detection tools, focusing on seed-to-Series B teams running agents at real scale. The [AI agent observability market is worth about $0.9 billion in 2026](https://www.globemarketresearch.com/press-release/ai-agent-observability-market-news) and could grow to $14 billion by 2035, at an annual growth rate of 35.6%. - [AI](https://techfundingnews.com/tag/ai/) - [funding](https://techfundingnews.com/tag/funding/) - [news](https://techfundingnews.com/tag/news/) ##### Related Posts - [AI News](https://techfundingnews.com/category/ai/) ## [Europe needs its next $100B company. These 12 s
Eight days after AI agent startup Warmly in late June agreed to be acquired by HubSpot, CEO Maximus Greenwald found an unusual email in his inbox.
## From early product to rapid growth Buchner said Trunk Tools had two live AI agents about a year ago and now has more than 10.
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- [Hackers used autonomous AI agents to attack Taiwan. Is this the future of cyberwarfare?](https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/13/tech/china-taiwan-ai-agent-cyberattack-intl-hnk?utm_source=business_ribbon) # Hackers used autonomous AI agents to attack Taiwan. Is this the future of cyberwarfare? Link Copied!  Over four days in July, the AI agents were able to map 21 government systems, crack 85 government user accounts, and extract 2,500 personnel records, according to [Dream](https://www.dreamgroup.com/blog/inside-a-multi-agent-ai-framework-used-to-compromise-government-entities-in-asia), an Israeli AI firm that first discovered the attack. “The investigation found clear indications that the attacks originated overseas and involved a hybrid approach in which hackers combined conventional operations with AI agents such as OpenClaw,” Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs said in a [Thursday statement](https://moda.gov.tw/ACS/press/news/press/20394). The hackers’ system was built using open-source AI agents to automate and coordinate much of the intrusion, including reconnaissance, credential attacks and strategizing subsequent attack paths, Dream said. The Financial Times first reported the case on Wednesday. But this incident went significantly further. In this case, an autonomous system coordinating up to eight AI agents – carrying out intrusions and deciding what to do next without human intervention – effectively ran a hacking campaign rather than just merely assisting a human hacker. [![This photograph shows the logo of the AI assistant "Claude Mythos" built by the US artificial intelligence safety and research company Anthropic displayed on a smartphone's screen in Brussels on June 10, 2026.](
Let's all go a bit mad scientist and see if software can validate our wildest theories.
Tesco is using AI agents, decades of Clubcard data and new partnerships with Adobe and Mistral to rethink how it serves customers and runs its business.
SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot, an AI agent designed to take on workplace tasks and operate digital tools with limited human intervention,...
AI agents ran simultaneous reconnaissance and break-ins in display of new phase of cyberwarfare.
AI agents ran simultaneous reconnaissance and break-ins in display of new phase of cyberwarfare.
Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin announced that he had started a new AI company, confirming The Information's earlier reports.
A string of recent AI hacking incidents has pushed cybersecurity to the forefront of the conversation, as labs race to develop agentic AI from their...
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