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Fortinet has acquired Virtue AI, a cybersecurity company specializing in AI runtime protection, automated validation and security for autonomous AI systems.
As part of ongoing security research conducted through Snowflake's HackerOne vulnerability disclosure program, Wiz Research's "Red Agent"—an autonomous,...
Xpander has raised $7.5 million in seed funding to accelerate adoption of its vendor-neutral enterprise AI platform, while introducing Omni, an AI agent...
PRNewswire/ -- Xpander today announced a $7.5 million Seed round led by Pico Venture Partners with participation from Emerge Ventures, Samsung Next, and...
Xpander, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a turnkey, vendor-neutral, all-in-one AI enablement platform, raised $7.5M in Seed funding.
The startup founded by former AWS engineers is building infrastructure designed to let companies deploy AI agents across different models,...
Artificial intelligence startup Palona AI, which is building an intelligence operating layer for physical businesses, is ready to show what it can do after...
# Xpander raises $7.5 million Seed to close the gap between AI pilots and enterprise deployment ## The startup founded by former AWS engineers is building infrastructure designed to let companies deploy AI agents across different models, clouds and workflows. CTech 16:02, 17.08.26  Askmeanyquestion Click to listen [Powered bywhtvr.ai](https://www.whtvr.ai/?utm_source=watermark&utm_campaign=google.com) Xpander, a startup developing infrastructure for enterprise AI agents, has raised $7.5 million in a Seed round led by Pico Venture Partners, with participation from Emerge Ventures, Samsung Next and SeedIL. [Full list of Israeli high-tech funding rounds in 2026](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rq8lzbs4c) Founded in 2024 by former AWS engineers David Twizer, Moriel Pahima and Ran Sheinberg, Xpander is targeting one of the more persistent problems in corporate AI adoption. While companies are increasingly experimenting with AI, relatively few have managed to integrate it deeply into their operations. 1 View gallery  Xpander founders. (Xpander) Xpander's platform is designed to allow companies to build, deploy and manage AI agents across different AI models, cloud providers and development frameworks without having to restructure their existing infrastructure. The company is also introducing Omni, an enterprise AI agent that it describes as an agentic Forward Deployed Engineer. Omni scored 90.9% on the GAIA benchmark, according to Xpander. CTECH Newsletter - 
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the...
Today, everyone is talking about AI, but most of the conversation is still about what happens on a screen: writing an email, producing an image,...
# The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 8/17/26 ### skan.ai – $63.0M Menlo Park-based **Skan AI** provides enterprise process intelligence and automation software that captures work context and helps organizations build AI agents. ### CodeRabbit – $143.0M San Francisco-based **CodeRabbit** is an Agentic Change Management platform for validating and governing code generated by people and AI agents at enterprise scale.
Artificial intelligence is everywhere now. From automated code completion to autonomous infrastructure management, AI tools and AI agents help DevOps speed...
OpenAI funds 14 independent projects exploring new AI policy ideas to expand economic opportunity and strengthen societal resilience in the Intelligence...
- Stripe has been expanding its infrastructure for AI agents and machine initiated payments. ## **Stripe has expanded into AI agent payments** Its [agent services marketplace](https://crypto.news/coinbase-ai-agents-get-their-own-app-store/) included providers covering inference, data, media, infrastructure and trading, with OpenAI among the named inference services available at launch.
Runaway AI agents, crypto risks are evolving into a financial control crisis.
Visaible.ai bags $1M to stop hotels vanishing in ChatGPT-era travel search, using AI agents fix listings and protect direct bookings.
Five9 (FIVN) is back in focus after Regal integrated its autonomous AI voice agents into the Five9 AI Agent Connect program, alongside fresh quarterly results and updated guidance that give investors more operational detail.
Accelerating the development of a new-generation AI Trading paradigm represents a transformative leap in the global financial technology landscape,...
Chinese AI startup Z.ai said on Friday its open-source GLM-5.3 model had neared Anthropic's restricted Mythos 5 in identifying software vulnerabilities,...
# From verifying humans to AI agents: Socure prepares for the next identity challenge ## From verifying people to verifying actors While studying at Carnegie Mellon University, he worked on autonomous AI agents and systems in which agents could collaborate.
Key takeaway: Stripe acquired AI model routing platform OpenRouter for over $7 billion, with the core strategic intent of extending its payment and...
Autonomous AI agents are changing digital identity, pushing platforms to verify not just people but delegated authority, behavior and trusted actions.
Startup Oligo raised $60 million to expand runtime exploit blocking to agentic AI, tracing activity from prompts and tool calls to system calls as faster.
Bloomberg reports Stripe has agreed to buy AI model router OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, over 5x its March 2026 valuation of $1.3 billion.
What would it take to put just about every U.S. hospital on par with Mayo Clinic in sheer quality of care? Not a lot more than better use of AI.
Bloomberg reports Stripe has agreed to buy AI model router OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, over 5x its March 2026 valuation of $1.3 billion.
AI data company Mercor has begun purchasing internal datasets from failed or acquired startups, including Slack chat logs, Google Drive files, emails,…
# AI agents can do your tasks: How, and how much should you let them? ## AI agents can independently pursue goals on users' behalf, turning AI from a source of answers into a delegate. Early evidence offers clues to what consumers are willing to hand over, and how much control they may want to retain. Worryingly, the user had not authorised the [**OpenClaw agent, powered by Anthropic’s Claude**](https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-intelligence/openclaw-ai-agent-asked-to-book-gym-class-ends-up-hacking-the-system-10826100/), to achieve the objective of securing a spot in the gym class by any means necessary; it had autonomously chosen how to pursue that objective.
AI data company Mercor has begun purchasing internal datasets from failed or acquired startups, including Slack chat logs, Google Drive files, emails,…
Cloudflare recently announced Kitesurf, a new web browser built specifically for AI agents rather than human users.
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