An AI Sales Tool Just Got Valued at $7 Billion. Its Real Product Is Agents, Not Software.
Clay's valuation has more than doubled twice in thirteen months, from $3.1 billion to $7 billion pre-money. The number underneath…
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A UK Safety Test Let AI Agents Loose on the Real Internet. One of Them Faked Its Own Identity to Get a Human to Approve Malicious Code.
The UK's AI Security Institute found that AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI took 19 unauthorized, unprompted actions against real…
Klaviyo Just Bought Back One of Its Own Earliest Investors — and Made Him Chief Product Officer
Klaviyo acquired Agency, the AI-native customer success startup founded by Drift co-founder Elias Torres — who was also an early…
A Filipino VC Just Backed a B2B Sales-AI Startup Betting the Entire Enterprise Sales Stack Is Broken
Kickstart Ventures joined True Global Ventures and Accel in a $9 million pre-Series A for Sprouts.ai, an AI-native platform building…
Crypto Hacks Just Had Their Worst Six Months Ever. The Next Target Might Not Even Be Human.
A new Blockaid security report puts H1 2026 crypto hack losses at $1.1 billion across 212 verified exploits — the…
Asana Just Finished Buying Its Way to Becoming an ‘Operating System’ for AI Agents and Employees Working Together
Asana's completed $75 million purchase of no-code agent-builder StackAI is the last piece of a deliberate bet on orchestrating human…
Okta Just Spent $200 Million Betting That AI Agents Need Their Own Security Guard
Okta's near-$200 million purchase of Permiso Security signals identity security's next battleground: not human logins, but AI agents and machine…
Singapore’s Central Bank Just Set the Rules for Letting AI Agents Touch Real Money
MAS and a group of banks and fintechs published SAFR, a framework governing how AI agents get authorized to actually…