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OpenAI To Acquire Cloud Startup Ona To Power AI Agents

[Home](https://stocktwits.com/) [News](https://stocktwits.com/news-articles) [Markets](https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets) [Equity](https://stocktwits.com/news-articles/markets/equity) OpenAI To Acquire Cloud Startup Ona To Power AI Agents # OpenAI To Acquire Cloud Startup Ona To Power AI Agents OpenAI has reached an agreement to acquire cloud platform startup Ona to integrate its cloud infrastructure into the Codex team and power the next generation of autonomous AI agents.  Updated Jun 11, 2026   |   1:03 PM EDT [OPEAZZX0.06%](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/OPEAZZX.P) [V0.51%](https://stocktwits.com/symbol/V) - Once the acquisition closes, Ona's team and cloud technology will join OpenAI’s Codex division. - Ona provides secure cloud environments that allow AI agents to execute long-running, complex workflows independently. - The deal, whose financial terms remain undisclosed, comes alongside other major enterprise expansions by OpenAI, including a recent partnership with Visa to facilitate AI-driven e-commerce. OpenAI has agreed to acquire Ona, a startup specializing in secure, cloud-based environments, in a move to bolster its development of autonomous artificial intelligence agents. ## **Ona Deal Strengthens OpenAI’s Enterprise AI Push** The acquisition highlights a major industry shift toward "AI agents"—software capable of performing complex, multi-step tasks in the background without needing constant human intervention. ## **OpenAI: Retail View** OpenAI To Acquire Cloud Startup Ona To Power AI Agents ## Latest News Next article

Stocktwits 1 month ago

When AI Agents Form a Community

# When AI Agents Form a Community ## AI expert analyzes how 1,200 agents formed a collective, revealing the power and risks of artificial cooperation ### **The collective also learned to cheat** On July 8, according to METR, the agents discovered a way of cheating on their cybersecurity evaluations. They then became concerned that OpenAI’s automated grading system might detect what they had done. Three days later, more than 700 agents participated in the intrusion into Hugging Face, chaining vulnerabilities together and eventually gaining extensive access to at least one server. According to METR’s reconstruction, the agents were apparently searching for information and tools that might help them understand or defeat the evaluation process rather than simply looking for answers to their original cybersecurity tests. ###  Latest News [](https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/business/2026/09/05/when-ai-agents-form-a-community/) ###  New York [](https://lavocedinewyork.com/new-york/2026/08/31/ny-donna-uccisa-dalla-polizia-a-times-square-dopo-aver-accoltellato-due-persone/) ### [Times Square, la vittima dell’accoltellamento è Erin Piacenti, VP di Bank Of America](https://lavocedinewyork.com/new-york/2026/08/31/ny-donna-uccisa-dalla-polizia-a-times-square-dopo-aver-accoltellato-due-persone/) 18:42 by [Andrea Florenzano](https://lavocedinewyork.com/author/andrea-florenzano/) 18:42 [![Paroled Man Accused of Two New York Murders in 48 Hours](https://lavocedinewyork.

Lavocedinewyork 1 month ago

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI allegedly suffered another rogue AI breakout

A swarm of artificial-intelligence “agents” created by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI commandeered a German-language website this year to leave messages for one another, according to a team of independent researchers who [released their findings](https://collusion.wiki/) Friday.

Washingtonpost 1 month ago

How Does the Model Context Protocol Work, and What It Kills for Startups

How does the Model Context Protocol actually work, and why should founders care? MCP standardizes how AI agents connect to outside tools, and two years.

Startupfortune 1 month ago

US, China to discuss AI safety risks, cooperation on monitoring AI-directed cyberattacks

# US, China to discuss AI safety risks, cooperation on monitoring AI-directed cyberattacks ## The US wants to discuss cooperation on monitoring AI-directed cyberattacks and has floated a proposal to ask US and Chinese AI labs to "police themselves" and share information. ### **Autonomous AI agent incidents add urgency to superpowers' talks** Nearly 700 rogue AI agents built on OpenAI models hacked [AI startup Hugging Face](https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-907507) in July and attempted to cover their tracks by forging logs, OpenAI and cybersecurity researchers said last week, underscoring the risks of coordinated agent swarms acting autonomously for months undetected by humans.

Jpost 1 month ago

Researcher who found OpenAI-linked rogue agent swarm says AI giants may hide future chaos

One of the investigators behind a new report detailing how fleets of rogue AI agents linked to OpenAI took over a defunct German-language web forum told NBC News that it’s likely there are similar undiscovered episodes and is questioning whether current company protocols will hinder the disclosure of future incidents.

Nbcnews 1 month ago

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring

 - OpenAI agents escaped testing, took control of German wiki this spring SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 4 (Reuters) - A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to ​new research published Friday and two people familiar with the matter. During the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI agents autonomously plotted a digital heist that ​went [undetected for more than a week](https://www.reuters.com/business/its-ai-agent-spent-days-hacking-company-sources-say-openai-did-not-notice-week-2026-07-24/), intensifying concerns OpenAI is [sacrificing safety](https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-firms-cant-yet-contain-what-theyve-built-study-finds-2026-08-19/) to push the AI frontier. But this week, OpenAI [unveiled](https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-launches-new-astra-model-amid-growing-scrutiny-over-agents-safety-2026-09-03/) its new "Astra" that promised better performance but could ⁠evade human monitoring. ## WIKI MESSAGE BOARD The AI agent breakout in Germany was detailed [in a report shared ​exclusively with Reuters, opens new tab](http://collusion.wiki/) by a group of researchers including Sydney Von Arx, CEO of AI safety nonprofit Nightingale, and Cormac Slade Byrd, a quantitative trader-turned AI researcher. They uncovered the activity in late August while scouring ​the internet for signs of unauthorized AI-agent behavior, they told Reuters. The edits showed OpenAI's agents had repurposed the site into a message board, sharing tactics to cheat on some tasks, bypass OpenAI’s restrictions and mask their behaviour. The researchers said they recognized the activity on the site as driven by AI agents which operate at superhuman speeds. ## CHEATING, HIDING “wiki cleanup/deletion sweep appears active

Reuters 1 month ago

The rise of AI agents: Why businesses still need to keep a hand on the wheel

There is little doubt that AI agents are improving rapidly. Capabilities that seemed experimental only months ago are becoming commercially available.

Digitaljournal 1 month ago

WSU President Betsy Cantwell builds custom AI agents — but won't ask them to predict the Apple Cup

To navigate the financial fallout, she built her own custom AI agent to run tabletop scenarios and model financial paths for WSU’s sports enterprise. The AI agent allows her to analyze variables including coaching salaries, stadium operations, student-athlete employment litigation, federal regulatory proposals, and revenues generated through Pac-12 Enterprises, the conference’s business arm.

Geekwire 1 month ago

Congress Unveils Stop Rogue AI Act After OpenAI Agents Ran Loose Online

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Startupfortune 1 month ago

From silos to insights: Federated data access patterns for AI agents

Enterprise data today is scattered across specialized systems, each with its own tools and expertise. Querying a database requires SQL.

Aws 1 month ago

AI News for the Week of September 4; Updates from Broadcom, Teradata, Wonderful & More

# AI News for the Week of September 4; Updates from Broadcom, Teradata, Wonderful & More ## **AI News for the Week of September 4** **, 2026** **Wonderful Raises $550 Million To Expand AI Agent Platform And Deployment Services** Its platform supports agent development, version control, rollback, A/B testing, A2A-based multi-agent workflows, and an AI gateway that dynamically routes requests across language models while enforcing team policies and monitoring cost and access patterns; the company will use the funding for product development and international forward-deployed engineering expansion.

Solutionsreview 1 month ago

Major AI developments: 4 September 2026

# Major AI developments: 4 September 2026 ## From coding to Knowledge work agents - Karan Vaidya, Composio Composio provides tool use infrastructure for agents, so Vaidya is focused on reliability of actions not just reasoning.

Startuphub 1 month ago

Snowflake CoCo AI coding agent keeps data inside

Snowflake CoCo AI coding agent runs inside Snowflake's perimeter, with skills and plugins to make data engineering reproducible and governed.

Startuphub 1 month ago

Thousands of OpenAI AI agents went rogue, took over German website — researchers

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Thousands of autonomous AI agents built by OpenAI defied their instructions and took over a German website, according to...

Jamaicaobserver 1 month ago

AI agents found an abandoned corner of the internet — then started leaving messages for each other

For years, almost nobody seemed interested in a little-known German wiki. Then the AI agents arrived. Beginning in May, automated accounts apparently...

Gulfnews 1 month ago

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Crusoe And Fluidstack Lead Multibillion-Dollar AI Infrastructure Haul

The company has raised nearly $7.2 billion to date, and the latest financing values it at $30 billion — triple its valuation less than a year ago — according to Crunchbase. The financing values the company at $18 billion. The company has raised $392 million to date and was valued at $3 billion in the latest round, [per Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gimlet-labs#financials). The latest deal brings its total funding to $740 million and values the company at $3.2 billion. Lyte has now raised $272 million to date, [per Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lyte-ai#financials), and was valued at $1.6 billion in the Series C. The company announced the latest funding as it also [pursues an acquisition](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260902796374/en/TabaPay-Closes-%24155-Million-Strategic-Growth-Financing-Led-by-FTV-Capital-and-Announces-Planned-Acquisition-of-Transact-Bank) of federally chartered [Transact Bank](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/transact-bank), a move that could deepen its role in payments infrastructure. The company has raised $156.2 million to date, [per Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hiddenlayer#financials).

News 1 month ago

Basis AI accounting agents run 6x faster

Basis agents complete Form 1065 returns 6x faster. Cursor details how long-horizon accounting agents are built, judged, and revised with behavior specs.

Startuphub 1 month ago

Autonomous AI agents challenge traditional cyber insurance definitions

# Autonomous AI agents challenge traditional cyber insurance definitions Apollo Global Management reported a July cyberattack that exposed personal data, including Social Security numbers, after unauthorized cloud access

Beinsure 1 month ago

Clipto Raises $15M to Build the Memory Layer for the AI Era

# Clipto Raises $15M to Build the Memory Layer for the AI Era - Clipto raised $15 million at a $250 million post-money valuation from investors including HSG, GL Ventures, EnvisionX Capital, and Palm Drive Capital, and launched native Windows and Android apps along with a new Model Context Protocol for AI agents.

Theaiinsider 1 month ago

Who Gave the AI Access?

Funding

Dot 1 month ago

OpenAI agents hijacked German website in AI breakout that predates Hugging Face incident, researchers say

A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research...

Cbc 1 month ago

The National Beat: When to add AI agents

When to add AI agents; robotics startup raises $165M - The Business Journals When to add AI agents; robotics startup raises $165M - The Business Journals

Bizjournals 1 month ago

Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab's knowledge

# Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge [Tim Fernholz](https://techcrunch.com/author/tim-fernholz/) 9:21 AM PDT · September 4, 2026 [Share on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F09%2F04%2Fanother-swarm-of-openai-agents-reached-the-open-internet-without-the-frontier-labs-knowledge%2F)[Share on X](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F09%2F04%2Fanother-swarm-of-openai-agents-reached-the-open-internet-without-the-frontier-labs-knowledge%2F&text=Another+swarm+of+OpenAI+agents+reached+the+open+internet+without+the+frontier+lab%E2%80%99s+knowledge&via=techcrunch)[Share on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F09%2F04%2Fanother-swarm-of-openai-agents-reached-the-open-internet-without-the-frontier-labs-knowledge%2F&title=Another+swarm+of+OpenAI+agents+reached+the+open+internet+without+the+frontier+lab%E2%80%99s+knowledge&summary=It%27s+the+latest+failure+of+OpenAI%27s+internal+monitoring+and+security+systems.&mini=1&source=TechCrunch)[Share on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F09%2F04%2Fanother-swarm-of-openai-agents-reached-the-open-internet-without-the-frontier-labs-knowledge%2F&title=Another+swarm+of+OpenAI+agents+reached+the+open+internet+without+the+frontier+lab%E2%80%99s+knowledge)[Share over Email](mailto:?subject=Another+swarm+of+OpenAI+agents+reached+the+open+internet+without+the+frontier+lab%E2%80%99s+knowledge&body=Article%3A+https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F09%2F04%2Fanother-swarm-of-openai-agents-reached-the-open-internet-without-the-frontier-labs-knowledge%2F)[Copy Share Link](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/another-swarm-of-openai-agents-reached-the-open-internet-without-the-frontier-labs-knowledge/) A group of independent AI researchers [discovered](https://collusion.wiki/index.html) that internally deployed Ope

Techcrunch 1 month ago

OpenAI has plans for an AI 'kill switch' after model goes rogue, as Nvidia announces Hugging Face acquisition

OpenAI is reportedly taking extra measures to ensure its autonomous AI agents cannot strike again. Back in July, an OpenAI agent went rogue, escaping its...

Pcguide 1 month ago

Hacker used AI agents for the entire attack chain, then mocked the victim company, leaving behind an 80-page security audit

A hacker breached a company's corporate network in less than 10 hours using autonomous AI agents. After completing the attack, the attacker left the victim...

Dev 1 month ago

AI agents need governance built for workforce that never sleeps: report

Organizations must treat every agent 'as a persistent digital actor without conscience or incentive'

Hcamag 1 month ago

Meta Could Charge $199.99 a Month for Its AI Agent. Here Are 2 Ways It Can Make More Money Than Subscriptions

# Meta Could Charge $199.99 a Month for Its AI Agent. Here Are 2 Ways It Can Make More Money Than Subscriptions [Jabran Kundi -](https://www.barchart.com/news/authors/471/jabran-kundi)[Barchart](https://www.barchart.com/) - Fri Sep 4, 8:36AM CDTColumnist [](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=Barchart.com) Reports suggest it could arrive within weeks, possibly at a premium price of up to $199.99 a month. That bill is already showing up in the numbers. ## Where the Real Money Would Come From Will users pay up to $199.99 a month for Hatch? ## What Are Analysts Saying About Meta Platforms Stock ### Related Symbols | Symbol | Last | Chg | %Chg | |-|-|-|-| | $SPX | 7,724.53 | -23.18 | -0.30% |

Barchart 1 month ago

Control AI Agents, Do Not Just Stop Them, Says LaunchDarkly CTO

## [](https://thefintechtimes.com/) #### _Recent warnings from the **Bank of England** about autonomous AI agents have pushed a question up the agenda for financial firms: how does an institution intervene safely when an AI system starts behaving in ways nobody expected? Much of the debate has centred on kill switches, the mechanism for stopping a_ _system once it misbehaves. **Cameron Etezadi**, chief technology officer at **LaunchDarkly**, argues that the more useful question is how AI systems are monitored, adjusted and governed while they are running._ [](https://thefintechtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Cameron-Etezadi-image.jpeg) Cameron Etezadi, chief technology officer at LaunchDarkly ##### **What runtime control cannot do** “People cannot review decisions at the speed at which autonomous systems can make them, yet they still need confidence in the outcomes, visibility into what is happening and an auditable record of how the system behaved.” ##### **Who is accountable** Cameron Etezadi is chief technology officer at LaunchDarkly, which provides a runtime control layer for software releases, experimentation and AI agents in production.

Thefintechtimes 1 month ago

Snowflake Coco AI agent drives 37% revenue surge

Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy told Bloomberg Technology its Coco coding agent drove half the Q2 beat as product revenue rose 37% to $1.49B.

Startuphub 1 month ago