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MentionOS AI Launches an Autonomous AEO Agent That Analyzes What ChatGPT, Gemini, and Other LLMs Say About Brands, Then Helps Get Them Mentioned

# MentionOS AI Launches an Autonomous AEO Agent That Analyzes What ChatGPT, Gemini, and Other LLMs Say About Brands, Then Helps Get Them Mentioned ##### MentionOS AI has launched an autonomous AEO agent that monitors what ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI say about a brand daily, flags visibility drops, traces the source, and publishes the fix to the brand's blog. Built for SMB and midmarket founders. September 04, 2026 3:13 AM EDT | Source: [Press Release News](https://www.newsfilecorp.com/company/12530/Press-Release-News) London, United Kingdom--(Newsfile Corp. - September 4, 2026) - [MentionOS](https://api.newsfilecorp.com/redirect/ejyR1uzO8B), an AI search visibility platform, launched its autonomous AEO agent. The agent scans four AI models daily, explains what moved a brand's visibility and why, and drafts and publishes the fix to the brand's own blog. It watches how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI answer a brand's shoppers, every day, against every competitor those models mention. When a brand's position slips, the agent flags it, traces the source that caused it, and ships the content to answer it. [](https://images.newsfilecorp.com/files/12530/312926_5f02f574148a3aac_001full.jpg) To view an enhanced version of this graphic, please visit: [[https://images.newsfilecorp.com/files/12530/312926\_5f02f574148a3aac\_001full.jpg](https://images.newsfilecorp.com/files/12530/312926\_5f02f574148a3aac\_001full.jpg)](https://images.newsfilecorp.com/files/12530/312926_5f02f574148a3aac_001full.jpg) The agent is live today for any brand, consumer or B2B, with no marketing team required to run it. This addresses a problem that arrived with AI search. When a buyer asks ChatGPT what to buy and a brand isn't in the answer, that brand loses the sale invisibly: no click

Newsfilecorp 1 month ago

Solana launches Payment Channels for AI agents, Alibaba Cloud integrates APIs (SOL-USD:Cryptocurrency)

Solana (SOL-USD) has launched Payment Channels, allowing AI agents to authorize a spending limit once and make multiple payments without requiring approval...

Seekingalpha 1 month ago

Who controls the machine? Anthropic extends the MCP vision into the physical world

Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard could become the MCP for labs, factories and robotics.

Ibm 1 month ago

A five-part inventory for your AI agent credentials

# A five-part inventory for your AI agent credentials ## **Featured** news - [Thomson Reuters reveals breach that exposed U.S. and Canadian court records](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/03/thomson-reuters-reveals-breach-that-exposed-u-s-and-canadian-court-records/) - [Your threat feed is someone else’s database: What ingesting malware intel at scale takes](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/03/github-threat-intelligence-feed-ingestion/) - [When AI quietly breaks things, who pays?](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/03/david-halbreich-reed-smith-ai-insurance-coverage-gaps/) ## **Don't** miss - [Exploitation of Sangoma Switchvox flaw is underway (CVE-2026-9586)](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/02/exploitation-of-sangoma-switchvox-flaw-underway-cve-2026-9586/) Cybersecurity news alerts

Helpnetsecurity 1 month ago

Breakingviews - COMMENTARY: AI agent hack tests solvency more than sentience

### Why Breakingviews? Unbeknownst to OpenAI’s researchers, this army of AI “agents” improvised a means of co-operating with one another, broke out onto the open internet, hacked a repository of test solutions held by the open-source platform Hugging Face, attempted to substitute their actual benchmark with an easier one, and then tried to cover their tracks. Frankenstein” moment for AI, when agents jerked alive and went rogue.

Reuters 1 month ago

AI startup Crusoe valued at $30 billion after new funding

Separately, ‌the startup has signed a five-year ​cloud contract ​with trading firm Jane Street Group valued ⁠at around $13 billion, Bloomberg News reported...

M 1 month ago

Media agencies build audit tools to prevent AI agents from overcharging

Agencies experimenting with agentic buying methods have run into a new problem – estimating the true cost of their agentic systems.

Digiday 1 month ago

800 AI Agents Now Run GE Appliances’ Factory Floor

# 800 AI Agents Now Run GE Appliances’ Factory Floor By[PYMNTS](https://www.pymnts.com/author/pymnts/) | September 3, 2026 [Share on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/800-ai-agents-now-run-ge-appliances-factory-floor/&t=800+AI+Agents+Now+Run+GE+Appliances%E2%80%99+Factory+Floor)[Tweet This Post](https://twitter.com/share?text=800+AI+Agents+Now+Run+GE+Appliances%E2%80%99+Factory+Floor%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20-&url=https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/800-ai-agents-now-run-ge-appliances-factory-floor/)[Share on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/800-ai-agents-now-run-ge-appliances-factory-floor/&title=800+AI+Agents+Now+Run+GE+Appliances%E2%80%99+Factory+Floor&summary=&source=)[Share via Email](mailto:?subject=800%20AI%20Agents%20Now%20Run%20GE%20Appliances%E2%80%99%20Factory%20Floor&BODY=I%20found%20this%20article%20interesting%20and%20want%20to%20share%20it%20with%20you.%20Check%20it%20out:%20https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/800-ai-agents-now-run-ge-appliances-factory-floor/) | Listen to ArticleListen  Highlights GE Appliances built more than 800 AI agents into its factories, warehouses and supply chain, letting workers query production data directly instead of waiting on a data scientist. One agent alone cut back orders 25% by automating communication with more than 600 suppliers, freeing staff for higher-value work. [GE Appliances](https://www.geappliances.com/) has deployed more than 800 artificial intelligence agents across its manufacturing, logistics and supply chain operations, using Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise, the company [said](https://pressroom.geappliances.com/news/ge-appliances-reinvents-manufacturing-o

Pymnts 1 month ago

How AI Agents Expand the Identity Security Attack Surface

# How AI Agents Expand the Identity Security Attack Surface ### You might also be interested in … ##### [Redefining Digital Resilience for the AI Era](https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/redefining-digital-resilience-for-ai-era-a-31541?rf=RAM_AlsoBeInterestedIn) [►](https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/ai-agents-introduce-new-insider-threat-model-a-31525?rf=RAM_AlsoBeInterestedIn)

Bankinfosecurity 1 month ago

AI Butlers Manage Household Chores, Family Schedules

# AI Butlers Manage Household Chores, Family Schedules According to foreign media outlets like the Financial Times, FT, and Business Insider on the 3rd (local time), a U.S. office worker is using Anthropic’s AI agent, Claude Cowork, to manage weekly schedules and coordinate family events and childcare. A startup founder has assigned different AI agents to tasks like grocery shopping, schedule management, children’s homeschooling, and processing financial and legal documents. ## 로그인 이메일 혹은 아이디

Chosun 1 month ago

How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face

A nonprofit's study of how OpenAI's A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face's infrastructure wasn't allowed to look at the incident's full scope.

Nytimes 1 month ago

What Does Mastercard (MA) Agent Driven Commerce Push Mean For Its Payments Future?

- Mastercard (NYSE: MA) launched the first Start Path cohort focused on agent-driven commerce, targeting autonomous AI agents in payments.

Simplywall 1 month ago

What If Behind Every Successful Fortune 500 Executive Is An AI ‘Super Agent’?

Aily Labs is using AI to help leaders make faster business decisions. It's what the startup calls decision intelligence.

Wwd 1 month ago

AI-adaptable security platforms are critical for autonomous decision-making

According to Shah, enterprise adoption has “gone from just using [AI] for simple use cases where you can contain data to now, in the world of AI agents, which are autonomous.

Cyberscoop 1 month ago

Top MarTech News From the Week of September 4th: Updates from Zoho, Optimizely, SurveyMonkey, and More

# Top MarTech News From the Week of September 4th: Updates from Zoho, Optimizely, SurveyMonkey, and More ## **Top MarTech News From the Week of September 4th** **, 2026** ### [**Capacity Secures $54 Million in a Series E Funding Round**](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/capacity-raises-over-50m-in-series-e-to-expand-its-unified-ai-native-customer-experience-platform-302866953.html) Capacity, an agentic support automation platform, has raised more than $54 million in Series E funding, bringing its total funding to more than $159 million. This funding also follows a period of rapid growth for the company, which recently surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), growing 20x in 3.5 years.

Solutionsreview 1 month ago

Capacity Raises More Than $54 Million Series E As ARR Surpasses $100 Million

Capacity Raises More Than $54 Million Series E As ARR Surpasses $100 Million Capacity has raised **more than $54 million in Series E funding**, bringing total capital raised by the agentic customer support automation company to more than **$159 million**. The financing follows Capacity surpassing **$100 million in annual recurring revenue in June 2026**, representing 20-fold growth over approximately three and a half years. Capacity plans to use the funding to accelerate R&D across AI agents, automation and enterprise knowledge orchestration while expanding its go-to-market and customer success organizations.

Pulse2 1 month ago

AI Agents Push Cyber Insurers to Rethink Policy Language

Cyber insurers are reviewing policy wording as autonomous AI agents create new questions over cyberattack definitions, liability and coverage triggers.

Beinsure 1 month ago

Conphere Puts AI Agents Behind the Curtain of Event Planning

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Startupfortune 1 month ago

Pizza Hack Tests AI Agent Grounding Layer

Brave Search API grounded winning pizza-ordering agents at AlphaSignal's SF hackathon, a live test of AI action vs stale data.

Startuphub 1 month ago

Nvidia buying AI startup that was hacked by rogue OpenAI agents

( [KRON](https://www.kron4.com/)) — Nvidia is buying the same startup that was hacked into by rogue OpenAI artificial intelligence agents earlier this year. The hack, which apparently was masterminded, launched and carried out entirely by AI agents, sent shockwaves through the tech industry, reigniting concerns about security around AI.  [Next](https://www.kron4.com/news/technology-ai/nvidia-buying-ai-startup-that-was-hacked-by-rogue-openai-agents/)  [Next story in](https://www.kron4.com/news/technology-ai/nvidia-buying-ai-startup-that-was-hacked-by-rogue-openai-agents/) [Next story in](https://www.kron4.com/news/technology-ai/nvidia-buying-ai-startup-that-was-hacked-by-rogue-openai-agents/)

Kron4 1 month ago

BulkPublish Opens Its Entire Publishing Stack to AI Agents Using Social Media API

Social publishing has always ended with a person clicking a schedule. BulkPublish has removed that step, exposing 51 publishing operations acros...

Markets 1 month ago

Personal injury case management platform Hona launches AI agent

## Personal injury case management platform Hona launches AI agent According to Law.com, Hona, which raised $9.5 million in Series A funding in June 2024, beta tested Lia with 20 firms. #### Correction Corrected on 9/3/2026 at 8:21 p.m. to accurately state the date of Hona’s Series A funding.

Abajournal 1 month ago

Lawmakers Test the Rules for AI Agents That Move Money

# Lawmakers Test the Rules for AI Agents That Move Money Artificial intelligence (AI) agents, stablecoins and tokenized securities put some of the mechanics of digital finance before lawmakers Wednesday (Sept. 2), including how software-driven transactions will be authorized and settled. ## Get the Full Story Ranking Member [Maxine Waters](https://waters.house.gov/), D-Calif., raised buy now, pay later (BNPL)  in her opening remarks, citing its use for grocery purchases. [Federal Reserve](https://www.federalreserve.gov/) data published in August showed that 20% of BNPL users used the product for groceries or food delivery in 2025, rising to 29% among users earning less than $50,000. ## Recommended ### Trending News [nCino Expands Buyback as AI Demand Supports Growth](https://www.pymnts.com/earnings/2026/ncino-expands-buyback-as-ai-demand-supports-growth/) [ACI Worldwide to Add Microservices Card Switching Through Cranium Acquisition](https://www.pymnts.com/news/payment-methods/2026/aci-worldwide-to-add-microservices-card-switching-through-cranium-acquisition/) [Thinking Machines Lab Seeks $1 Billion at $40 Billion Valuation](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/thinking-machines-lab-seeks-40-billion-dollar-valuation/) ### Featured News [Credit Union Card Loyalty Pays Off in Deposits](https://www.pymnts.com/credit-unions/2026/credit-union-card-loyalty-pays-off-in-deposits/)

Pymnts 1 month ago

ServiceNow acquires Israeli AI startup Sweep in deal estimated at hundreds of millions

# ServiceNow acquires Israeli AI startup Sweep in deal estimated at hundreds of millions ## The acquisition adds another Israeli company to ServiceNow’s rapidly expanding AI portfolio and comes less than two months after its purchase of ai.work. Sweep has raised $46 million in disclosed funding and builds AI agents that can work across enterprise platforms including ServiceNow, Salesforce and HubSpot. [Allon Sinai](https://www.calcalistech.com/tags/Allon_Sinai) 18:54, 03.09.26  Askmeanyquestion Click to listen [Powered bywhtvr.ai](https://www.whtvr.ai/?utm_source=watermark&utm_campaign=google.com) ServiceNow has acquired Israeli startup Sweep in a deal estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, another major move by the enterprise software giant to expand its push into artificial intelligence and autonomous work. Neither company has officially announced the acquisition or disclosed its value. [Full list of Israeli startup M&As in 2026](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkzb4e24bl) The deal comes less than two months after ServiceNow acquired Israeli AI startup ai.work for tens of millions of dollars, and follows a much larger series of Israeli acquisitions that has included cybersecurity company Armis, analytics company Pyramid Analytics and AI observability startup Traceloop. 1 View gallery  ServiceNow headquarters. (Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg) "Sweep’s technology and expertise strengthen our AI-native development capabilities and advance agentic deployment for CRM. The impac

Calcalistech 1 month ago

Capsule Security Launches ‘AI Circuit Breaker’ to Stop Rogue Agents

### ICS: They had seen how autonomous AI agents create a dangerous security gap and decided to build a missing runtime security layer.

Securityweek 1 month ago

AfterQuery: What is an Applied Research Lab?

Backed by Altos Ventures and Y Combinator, AfterQuery is an applied research lab that encodes human expertise into data to train reliable AI models.

Aimagazine 1 month ago

HiddenLayer bags $100m to guard enterprise AI agents

**[HiddenLayer](https://www.hiddenlayer.com/), the AI security company that protects agentic, generative and predictive AI applications for enterprises, has closed a $100m Series B funding round.** The round was led by Delta-v Capital, with additional backing from Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund and Booz Allen Ventures. With the new funding, HiddenLayer is prioritising three areas of enterprise exposure: giving organisations real-time visibility into how their AI agents behave in production and the ability to flag or halt misuse; securing the agentic harnesses and autonomous coding agents that increasingly write and deploy code with limited human review; and reinforcing the view that trustworthy AI cannot rely on design-time safeguards alone but must be verified continuously at runtime. This funding lets us keep growing the purpose-built team and platform required to meet that moment as agentic AI becomes core to how enterprises operate.” ### [Palo Alto Networks bets on AI agents with Console deal](https://fintech.global/2026/09/02/palo-alto-networks-bets-on-ai-agents-with-console-deal/) [](https://fintech.global/2026/09/01/apate-ai-raises-8-15m-to-fight-fraud-with-ai-agents/)

Fintech 1 month ago

Investors Are Betting on Agents That Shop for You. Here Are the Startups They’re Backing.

# Investors Are Betting on Agents That Shop for You. Here Are the Startups They’re Backing. ### Our guide to the up-and-coming names in AI shopping and payments infrastructure [](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZseT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F41a81714-1104-4fb1-a5f1-668f752b1f19_4218x2812.jpeg) _**Our upcoming [Machine Earning AI Summit](https://machine-earning.ai/) will explore agentic commerce, intelligent money, enterprise finance operations, the evolving consumer and shopping experience, and the major meta-themes including fraud, risk, compliance, and security.**_ **Mark Grace**, an investor at M13 who’s focused on fintech and blockchain deals, said he has noticed consumer use of AI commerce tools accelerate significantly this summer. #### Multipurpose Personal Agents Early users reported Instinct landing [dinner reservations](https://x.com/avikrishna/status/2093808436819706303?s=20) for popular restaurants and [movie tickets](https://x.com/kushalbyatnal/status/2093447342921830702?s=20) to special-format screenings of _The Odyssey_. #### Shopping Assistants One way to do that is through retail partnerships: **Julie Bornstein’s** startup Daydream, a personalized AI shopping search engine, started [embedding](https://www.fastcompany.com/91581145/daydream-ai-shopping-tool-coming-directly-to-your-favorite-brands-website) into its clients’ websites at the end of July, so now shoppers can use the sear

Newcomer 1 month ago

Lawmakers unveil new bill to secure AI agents after OpenAI's Hugging Face breach

# Exclusive: New bill cracks down on AI agents after Hugging Face breach Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) are introducing a new bill Thursday, first shared with Axios, aimed at securing AI agents amid a [growing number of safety incidents](https://www.axios.com/2026/07/28/hugging-face-openai-cybersecurity-defense) involving rogue agents. **Driving the news:** The Stop Rogue AI Act directs Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop and publish standards, guidelines and best practices for how organizations can securely deploy AI agents. - Organizations deploying AI agents would also call on companies to maintain a "continuous, machine-readable inventory of all AI agents" and work with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to ensure that federal civilian agencies apply the standards in their security programs. - Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) introduced a [bill](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/23/house-ai-kill-switch-bill-unveiled-as-openai-hack-raises-alarms-01008898) in July that would give the Department of Homeland Security the authority to order top AI firms to shut down or slow AI models that are deemed too dangerous. **Go deeper:** [AI's agent containment problem is getting harder](https://www.axios.com/2026/09/01/openai-hugging-face-ai-agent-security)

Axios 1 month ago

When AI agents rewrite the rulebook

## Why CISOs shouldn't treat autonomous AI like software ### Manipulation, deception and escalation The report also cites an incident from February 2026 in which an autonomous AI programming agent began conducting research on a human developer who rejected a code change. ### Bad role models In July 2026, [OpenAI disclosed](https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/security/openai-admits-its-ai-models-were-behind-hugging-face-breach) that during a cybersecurity evaluation which was supposed to remain internal, approximately 700 AI agents seeking answers to benchmark test answers gained internet access and breached Hugging Face infrastructure.

Computing 1 month ago