This Week's AI Agents News

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, 2 hours ago

Palantir Boosts Agentic AI Software Security Capabi…

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Startuphub 6 days, 2 hours ago

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

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Startupfortune 6 days, 3 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, 3 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, 4 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.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) ## Track what is happening across AI © 2026 [StartupHub.ai](https

Startuphub 6 days, 6 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, 6 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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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, 8 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, 9 hours ago

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

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Startupfortune 6 days, 9 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 11 hours ago

Only 1 in 5 organizations are prepared to move toward autonomous AI agents, Deloitte finds

# Only 1 in 5 organizations are prepared to move toward autonomous AI agents, Deloitte finds  A billboard advertising an agentic AI tool is displayed in San Francisco, Calif., on June 30, 2026. Heather Diehl via Getty Images  3 min ### Dive Insight: Despite technology skills gaps, workforce resistance to change and system complexity, [leaders increasingly](https://www.hrdive.com/news/agentic-ai-deployment-triples-despite-risks-kpmg/752270/) see agentic AI as a tool for rethinking growth and creating new value and not just for cutting costs, according to a 2025 KPMG study. Louis found. Given these expectations, to maintain organizational trust, HR professionals [must move beyond task-level AI](https://www.hrdive.com/news/confidence-in-hr-may-hinge-on-moving-beyond-task-level-ai-use/826136/) use toward agentic workflows, according to a July report from Culture Amp. ## Company Announcements ### [A running list of states and localities that require employers to disclose pay or pay ranges](https://www.hrdive.com/news/pay-transparency-law-tracker-states-that-require-employers-to-post-pay-range-or-wage-range/622542/) - [](https://www.hrdive.com/news/only-1-in-5-organizations-are-prepared-to-move-toward-autonomous-ai-agents/828324/)

Hrdive 6 days, 11 hours ago

NCSC Urges Stronger Controls for Agentic AI Systems

# NCSC Urges Stronger Controls for Agentic AI Systems ## Written by ### [Alessandro Mascellino](https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/profile/alessandro-mascellino/) The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has urged organizations deploying autonomous AI agents to use sandboxing, human oversight and tightly controlled access to limit the impact of unintended or malicious activity.

Infosecurity-Magazine 6 days, 12 hours ago

Base Network to Invest $100,000 Each in 10 AI Startups

# Base Network to Invest $100,000 Each in 10 AI Startups - _According to network representatives, AI agents could become the primary users of blockchains._ The team behind the Base L2 network, developed by Coinbase, [has opened applications](https://decrypt.co/375952/coinbase-base-ai-agents-startup-accelerator) for the fourth cohort of the Base Batches accelerator. ## Base Narrows Its Accelerator to Focus on AI Agents - AI agents and the infrastructure for them ## You may be interested in [\ \ \ OpenLedger Names Agentic Payments Crypto’s First ‘Killer App’ \ \ \ 20.08.2026](https://incrypted.com/en/openledger-names-agentic-payments-cryptos-first-killer-app/) [\ \ \ OKX has banned its employees in Hong Kong from using Claude, Bloomberg reports \ \ \ 20.08.2026](https://incrypted.com/en/okx-has-banned-its-employees-in-hong-kong-from-using-claude-bloomberg-reports/) [\ \ \ OpenAI’s CFO Said the Company Will Go Public by the End of 2027 \ \ \ 20.08.2026](https://incrypted.com/en/openais-cfo-said-the-company-will-go-public-by-the-end-of-2027/) [\ \ \ Nvidia Interested in AI Startup Mercor after Multimillion-Dollar Data Orders \ \ \ 20.08.2026](https://incrypted.com/en/nvidia-interested-in-ai-startup-mercor-after-multimillion-dollar-data-orders/)

Incrypted 6 days, 12 hours ago

Exclusive: This $100 million startup wants to give companies AI employees

## ‘They feel a little bit like coworkers’ Their new product, Skydive, lets users build a custom AI “teammate” by describing the role or sifting through a catalog of four agent templates.

Fastcompany 6 days, 12 hours ago

Zero Networks expands Palo Alto Networks integration to AI agent control

Zero-trust security startup Zero Networks Ltd. today expanded its integration with Palo Alto Networks Inc., adding automated threat containment and a set of...

Siliconangle 6 days, 12 hours ago

Natural Secures $100M Credit Facility from Upper90 to Power AI Agent Payments

## What FF News has reported before Following its seed success, the company significantly accelerated its roadmap, as reported in [Natural Secures $30M Series A to Power Payments for Autonomous AI Agents](https://ffnews.com/news/natural-secures%20$30M-series-a-to-power-payments-for-autonomous-ai-agents).

Ffnews 6 days, 13 hours ago

Binance Lets AI Agents Trade Your Crypto With No Cap on Losses

# Binance Lets AI Agents Trade Your Crypto With No Cap on Losses Funding is a periodic payment between longs and shorts on perpetual futures, designed to keep the contract price tethered to spot. ZAWYA, carrying the Reuters-distributed announcement, reported that the beta came with a discounted $9.99 monthly charge, with the regular price set at $29.99, and 5 million monthly credits for AI-powered activity.

Startupfortune 6 days, 15 hours ago

Natural secures $100M credit facility for AI-agent payments

What's the deal? Natural, a San Francisco startup building payments infrastructure for AI agents, has secured a credit facility of up to $100 million from...

App 6 days, 15 hours ago

Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users

# Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users [Binance](http://binance.com/), the world’s largest crypto exchange with more than 300 million registered users, on Thursday launched a platform that lets AI agents analyze markets and execute trades on users’ behalf, bringing autonomous AI directly into the business of managing real money.

Techcrunch 6 days, 16 hours ago

BlueFaucet Unveils Autonomous AI Agent CRM for Solopreneurs, Small Merchants

###### [Queen One Secures $25 Million to...](https://www.martechcube.com/queen-one-secures-25-million-to-blitz-legacy-martech/) BlueFaucet Inc. today announced the launch of BlueFaucet, an autonomous AI Agent CRM built for solopreneurs and micro-businesses with fewer than five employees across local services, home services, personal care, and food and beverage.

Martechcube 6 days, 17 hours ago