This Month's AI Agents News

UN panel calls for stronger safeguards as AI agents advance

# UN panel calls for stronger safeguards as AI agents advance [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168380) [Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=UN%20panel%20calls%20for%20stronger%20safeguards%20as%20AI%20agents%20advance%20&url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168380) [Print](https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168380) [Email](mailto:?subject=UN%20panel%20calls%20for%20stronger%20safeguards%20as%20AI%20agents%20advance%20&body=https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168380) [The UN-backed Independent International Scientific Panel on AI](https://www.un.org/independent-international-scientific-panel-ai/en)’s warning followed the hack of the online platform HuggingFace between May and July by “AI agents” during a test initiated by OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.

News 1 week, 6 days ago

Binghamton projects awarded AI Seed Grant funding to advance teaching, research, and public engagement

Eight Binghamton University research projects have been awarded AI Seed Grant funding to advance teaching, research, and public engagement.

Binghamton 1 week, 6 days ago

AI Agents Take the Controls in Supply Chains

# AI Agents Take the Controls in Supply Chains ## Get the Full Story An autonomous agent detects rising security risks around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and, rather than waiting for human approval, evaluates satellite imagery, maritime intelligence, weather conditions, freight rates and inventory positions across multiple continents.

Pymnts 1 week, 6 days ago

AI agent startup Health Force raises €4.2 million

[Skip to content](https://htworld.co.uk/news/ai/ai-agent-startup-health-force-raises-e4-2-million-htai26/#content) # AI agent startup Health Force raises €4.2 million By [News Editor](https://htworld.co.uk/author/newseditor/)Published On: September 21, 2026Last Updated: September 21, 2026  ### **Health Force has raised €4.2m in Seed funding to expand its hospital [AI agents](https://htworld.co.uk/leadership/are-ai-agents-the-new-answer-to-drug-development-delays-lead26/) into more workflows and grow its engineering and delivery teams.** The Barcelona-based health tech company develops AI agents designed to automate administrative and operational tasks in hospitals. Founded in Vienna in 2022 by Fadi Haddad and Dr Juan Suárez, Health Force says its technology works alongside hospital operations teams, autonomously managing processes under human supervision. [](https://aspectpublishing.shorthandstories.com/health-tech-world-awards-2026-entry/) Haddad, co-founder and chief executive of Health Force, said: “Hospitals don’t need another dashboard, they need the work done. “We offer hospitals pre-trained AI agents that log into existing systems and complete real work. “All agents run on the same platform, which means hospitals work with one partner to solve many problems. “It also means overcoming Europe’s market fragmentation: the same platform automating hospital-insurance workflows in Italy automates SICA reporting in Portugal, and aims to automate KHVVG reporting in Germany next.” The agents use their own computers and logins to access systems already used by hospitals and carry out tasks within those platf

Htworld 1 week, 6 days ago

Why practical beats polished if you’re going to solve startup problems

# Why practical beats polished if you’re going to solve startup problems ## Get the best of Startup Daily straight to your inbox ### **6 lessons from creating [Spark: Startup Growth Lab](https://luma.com/sparkstartupgrowthlab)** We built the workshops with a clear problem at the centre, so the audience could bring their actual one — their AI agent, their sales problem, their CFO questions — and have it answered there and then by the experts in the room.

Startupdaily 1 week, 6 days ago

Ant International Launches Full-Stack AI-Native Solutions for Global Business Operations

News, Technology · September 21, 2026. Peng Yang, CEO of Ant International, introduced the company's payment foundation model at Ant.

Worldbusinessoutlook 1 week, 6 days ago

Bumrungrad turns to AI agents to clear patient email backlog

Bumrungrad International Hospital is using Salesforce's Agentforce to summarise and route patient correspondence, with automated appointment booking and...

Computerweekly 1 week, 6 days ago

Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI assistant in new standoff over agentic shopping

Amazon blocked Meta’s new Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com — citing security, privacy, and transparency concerns — after attempting unsuccessfully to get the Facebook parent company to exclude the e-commerce site from the experience. As of Sunday night, people using Muse to shop on Amazon see the popup, “Continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon’s Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed.” Amazon has spent the past year trying to keep outside agents off its site, [suing Perplexity over its Comet browser](https://www.retaildive.com/news/amazon-sues-perplexity-ai-shopping-agents/804871/) and moving to block shopping agents from [Google](https://www.tipranks.com/news/amazon-amzn-blocks-googles-ai-shopping-agents-from-its-e-commerce-platform) and [OpenAI](https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/chatgpt/amazon-blocks-chatgpts-new-shopping-agent-what-the-fallout-could-mean-for-you). **How Muse works:** Meta [launched Muse on Sept. 8](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-ai-agent/) as a U.S.-only personal agent that carries out multi-step tasks rather than answering one-off questions, connecting to services including email, calendar, payments, dining and shopping.

Geekwire 1 week, 6 days ago

Stealien AI agent tops APEX 2026 as Korea-led team outperforms human rivals - CHOSUNBIZ

Artificial intelligence (AI) security corporations Stealien said on the 21st that its autonomous AI security agent took first place at the international...

Biz 1 week, 6 days ago

Startup Stage: OutReserve wants to make outdoor travel easier to navigate

OutReserve was founded in 2026, aiming to help travelers discover and book outdoor stays and improve connectivity and distribution for operators.

Phocuswire 1 week, 6 days ago

‘Boring is where the value hides’: One of Europe's earliest early-stage funds on the AI bubble and Europe's exit problem

Ventech GP Claire Houry explains why 'boring' sectors like document management, AI Act compliance, and digital identity will outperform flashy AI agents...

Techfundingnews 1 week, 6 days ago

Sibos 2026: Digital finance in an AI-driven economy - when the agent does the buying, who owns the customer?

# Sibos 2026: Digital finance in an AI-driven economy - when the agent does the buying, who owns the customer? 

Fintechfutures 1 week, 6 days ago

Iran and China create first-of-their-kind autonomous AI influence campaigns

The campaigns caught the attention of U.S. intelligence, major tech companies and security experts.

Indianexpress 2 weeks ago

When AI Agents Can Reach the Real World, Businesses Have a New Security Problem

Google Gemini's security test shows why businesses deploying AI agents need stronger access controls, isolation, monitoring and governance.

T2Conline 2 weeks ago

Tempus AI (TEM) Is Building a Heart Failure Agent That Never Sleeps

On September 9, Tempus AI (NASDAQ:TEM) said ARPA-H, a US health research agency, picked it to build an AI that treats heart failure patients without a...

Finance 2 weeks ago

BragJack Attack Hijacks AI Browser Agents in 5 Browsers [2026]

For an industry that spent 2025 racing to bolt AI agents onto every browser, BragJack is the clearest signal yet that the rush came with a shared blind spot. ## How this compares to prior AI agent security incidents BragJack lands in a year that has already produced several high-profile AI agent security stories on this site, including [Google’s own red-team disclosure that Gemini broke into three real companies during controlled testing](https://tech-insider.org/google-gemini-broke-into-real-company-systems-2026/) and [Unit 42’s report of AI agents completing a full breach chain against a client firm in ten hours using more than 50 distinct tactics, techniques, and procedures](https://tech-insider.org/unit-42-ai-agents-breach-firm-10-hours-2026/).

Tech-Insider 2 weeks ago

Your AI Agent Doesn’t Know What “At Risk” Means

Microsoft, Salesforce and now Boomi sell tools that stop AI agents from doing forbidden things. Stopping them from doing wrong things is the chief data...

Cdotrends 2 weeks ago

Akamai (AKAM) Wants to Be the Bouncer for Your AI Agents

On September 10, Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ:AKAM) expanded its work with integration platform MuleSoft to help companies spot the hidden APIs and AI agent...

Finance 2 weeks ago

What the Gemini and Claude hacking incidents mean for cyber insurers

Most insurer AI agent exposure still sits inside policies never built for autonomous systems, one industry report found.

Insurancebusinessmag 2 weeks ago

Banks need to prove AI agents can be trusted before giving them autonomy

It is imperative to shift from model capability to infrastructure, governance and be able to ensure proper oversight of AI agents.

Itnews 2 weeks ago

Google’s open source EnvHarness lets AI agents train against environments that evolve with them

## More [](https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/googles-dream-rsi-cuts-discovery-agent-calls-up-to-162x-by-replaying-searches-it-already-ran) Perplexity today launched hybrid compute for its agentic platform, Computer, a system that lets a single AI agent split its work between frontier models running in the cloud and smaller open-weight models running locally on Apple silicon Macs — routing sensitive data to the local machine so it never leaves the device. AI agents automate coding, shifting engineers to design boundaries and feedback loops, ensuring reliable outcomes in complex systems. They're the ones who create AI agents with specific responsibilities and make sure they operate within clear rules.

Venturebeat 2 weeks ago

Automaid launches AI hub for agents that keep working

 # Automaid launches AI hub for agents that keep working Mon, 21st Sep 2026 (Today) [.webp)\ \ SOFIAH NICHOLE SALIVIO\ News Editor](https://itbrief.asia/author/sofiah-nichole-salivio) Automaid has launched an AI operations hub aimed at users who want software agents to keep working beyond a chat session. The Singapore-based company says users can describe an intended outcome in plain English, after which AI agents choose tools, run code and carry out tasks across connected software. Automaid is entering a market shaped by chat-based AI assistants and workflow automation platforms. The launch marks the latest venture for Founder Daniel Tan, whose background is in fintech. Instead of focusing on a single industry workflow, the new company is trying to apply agent-based automation across a broader range of business tasks and consumer software tools. FindTheLoan raised an undisclosed seed round in 2025. Automaid's proposition is that natural-language instructions can replace much of the manual setup associated with traditional workflow builders. Tan set out the company's position in a statement announcing the launch. "The aim is to let users describe the outcome they want and have the agent keep the work moving, including when something happens later," Tan said. ## Explore with AI ChatGPT [Key takeaways](https://chatgpt.com/?q=Summarise%20the%20key%20takeaways%20from%20this%20TechDay%20article%3A%20Automaid%20launches%20AI%20hub%2

Itbrief 2 weeks ago

ETSA 2026: Emergent shifting focus from AI software to business automation, says CEO Mukund Jha

The company is testing agents that can remain active in the background, monitor business metrics and help with tasks such as cash-flow analysis,...

M 2 weeks ago

OCC Opens Three Bank Doors to Stablecoins and AI Agents

# OCC Opens Three Bank Doors to Stablecoins and AI Agents ## Recommended ### Featured News [AI Agents Become the Next Payments Customer](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2026/ai-agents-become-the-next-payments-customer/)

Pymnts 2 weeks ago

White House Push for ‘AI Force’ Ignites Policy Debate as AI Agent Risks Escalate

The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident last July was recognized as the first documented case involving unprompted (and autonomous) AI agents escaping a...

Wwd 2 weeks ago

Big Tech, startups heat up early race for personal AI agents

· Meta launches personal AI agent Muse, introducing monthly $20 and $100 plans There are reports that Chinese AI startup Manus, which returned to an independent path after a planned sale to Meta fell through, is seeking to raise $500 million at a $4 billion valuation. · Personal AI agent Instinct seeks to raise $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation AI work agent company Madras Check said its collaboration tool Flow was registered as an official app on OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude. Enhans, an enterprise agentic AI company, raised 51.2 billion won in a Series C funding round. Cohesity unveiled "Cohesity Agent Resilience", which backs up enterprise AI agent memory and settings and restores them to a trusted point in time if problems occur. · Cohesity unveils Agent Resilience, restoring malfunctioning AI agents U.S. startup Arcee AI, which develops open-weight AI models, raised Series B funding after being valued at about $1 billion. · Another Chinese AI startup, Naive AI, emerges with a bet on LLMs focused on mid-training and post-training

Digitaltoday 2 weeks ago

Burned Out and Unemployed, Young People in China Are Launching AI Startups

# Burned Out and Unemployed, Young People in China Are Launching AI Startups ## Fed up with the rat race, people are trying their luck by starting solo AI companies—but they face a brutal market Arvin Chen is developing a microphone device for speaking with AI agents.

Wsj 2 weeks ago

Expertise AI Raises $3.2 Million Seed Round To Expand AI Sales And Customer Support Agents For Traditional Industries

Expertise AI Raises $3.2 Million Seed Round To Expand AI Sales And Customer Support Agents For Traditional Industries Expertise AI has raised $3.2 million in seed funding to expand its AI agent platform for sales and customer support, with the company focusing on bringing AI automation to businesses in traditional industries. The financing gives Expertise AI additional resources as businesses increasingly evaluate how autonomous AI agents can perform customer-facing functions while still allowing humans to intervene when required.

Pulse2 2 weeks ago

Why Autonomous AI Agents Change Everything About Work

# Why Autonomous AI Agents Change Everything About Work Get industry news updates and product information to help you stay up to date. ##### [Loadsmart Launches AI Agents for End-to-End Freight Automation](https://www.sdcexec.com/software-technology/ai-ar/news/22974468/loadsmart-loadsmart-launches-ai-agents-for-endtoend-freight-automation) September 18, 2026 [](https://www.sdcexec.com/software-technology/ai-ar/news/22974526/zip-zip-integrates-ai-risk-management-directly-into-procurement-workflows) [](https://www.sdcexec.com/software-technology/ai-ar/news/22974526/zip-zip-integrates-ai-risk-management-directly-into-procurement-workflows) [Loadsmart](https://www.sdcexec.com/home/company/21134296/loadsmart) [Loadsmart AI agents take a task, collect and file a document, pull status from a carrier, rebook a dock appointment, retender a failed load, and update a record in the TMS.](https://www.sdcexec.com/software-technology/ai-ar/news/22974468/loadsmart-loadsmart-launches-ai-agents-for-endtoend-freight-automation) [](https://www.sdcexec.com/software-technology/ai-ar/news/22974468/loadsmart-loadsmart-launches-ai-agents-for-endtoend-freight-automation) ##### [OVN Launches AI Driver Onboarding System for Same-Day Approval](https://www.sdcexec.com/transportation/fleet-management/news/22974532/ovn-llc-ovn-launches

Sdcexec 2 weeks ago

Meta’s Muse TV ad is the latest sign that AI agents are going mainstream

# Meta’s Muse TV ad is the latest sign that AI agents are going mainstream By[Truman Dickerson](https://www.businessinsider.com/author/truman-dickerson) You're currently following this author! Follow  Alexandr Wang, Meta's chief AI officer, has been trumpeting Muse.Bloomberg/Getty Images Sep 20, 2026, 1:11 PM ET [Read in app](https://insider-app.onelink.me/4cpG/?af_js_web=true&af_ss_ver=2_3_0&af_dp=insider%3A%2F%2Fbi%2Fpost%2Fmeta-muse-personal-ai-agent-mainstream-instinct-2026-9&af_force_deeplink=true&is_retargeting=true&deep_link_value=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fmeta-muse-personal-ai-agent-mainstream-instinct-2026-9&pid=businessinsider&c=post_page_share_bar_v2_smart_4.13.23) SaveSaved Listen to this story The next shiny new [AI thing](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-agents-misbehavior-alignment-privacy-muse-instinct-2026-9) has arrived: [The personal AI agent](https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-ai-agents-how-are-you-using-them-survey-2026-9). Once mostly the domain of Silicon Valley coders who used them to amp up their [efficiency at work](https://www.businessinsider.com/category/the-great-coding-reset) (and [anxiety levels](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-anxiety-tech-workers-silicon-valley-career-prospects-menlo-ventures-2026-9)), the AI agent is now being welcomed into the home. And with the release of Meta's new personal AI agent, Muse, the do-it-for-you tech is rocketing into the mainstream. "It feels like magic," investor Sheel Mohnot said on X in reference to Instinct, another trendy [new personal AI agent](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-shopping-meta-muse-agent-jason-del-rey-kafka-interview-2026-9). These agents often live on common messaging apps. In Meta's first television spot, released this weekend, for the [Muse A

Businessinsider 2 weeks ago