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AI agent Instinct seeks $1B at $10B valuation in talks with Sequoia, Benchmark

# AI agent Instinct seeks $1B at $10B valuation in talks with Sequoia, Benchmark [Instinct](https://instinct.com/)’s valuation has jumped fourfold in three weeks, and if the numbers being discussed now hold up, the invite-only personal AI assistant will have gone from a $50 million seed to a $10 billion valuation in under five months. Instinct, the company behind it, hit a $2.5 billion Series B valuation in late August. It’s now reportedly in talks for four times that. Nothing is signed yet: the round hasn’t closed, and the number could still move. The company’s [previous $250 million Series B](https://techfundingnews.com/noah-shinns-instinct-goes-from-100m-to-2-5b-in-weeks-23-year-olds-ai-assistant-just-raised-250m-series-b/) was co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark, taking total funding to $350 million. ## The pattern of rapid ascent Cognition, the company behind AI coding agent Devin, [raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation in September](https://techfundingnews.com/devin-maker-cognition-raises-over-2b-at-48b-valuation-nearly-doubling-its-price-tag-in-four-months/), just four months after its [previous $26 billion valuation](https://techfundingnews.com/cognition-ai-eyes-40b-valuation-less-than-three-months-after-26b-mark/). Its annualised run-rate revenue grew from $492 million to nearly $900 million over the same stretch. [Clay raised $115 million at a $7.1 billion valuation](https://techfundingnews.com/clay-hits-7-1b-valuation-with-115m-raise-as-it-sees-ai-agents-running-future-of-sales/), up from $3.1 billion a year earlier. That’s the pattern, three companies deep now. ## The valuation versus economics question - [AI](https://techfundingnews.com/tag/ai/) - [funding](https://techfundingnews.com/tag/funding/) - [news](https://techfundingnews.com/tag/news/) - [top funding rounds](https://techfundingnews.com/tag/top-funding-rounds/) ##### Related Posts - [AI News](https://techfundingnews.com/category/ai/) - [Startups News](https://techfundingnews.com

Techfundingnews 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Prophix Unveils Next-Gen AI Agents for Prophix One Autonomous Finance Platform

![Press Release: Prophix Unveils Next-Gen AI Agents for Prophix One Autonomous Finance Platform | Featured Image by FF News](https://img.ffnews.com/2026/09/prophix-unlocks-value-for-customers-with-new-agent-and-secure-ai-ecosystem-acces-68b61973-1789742525025.webp) For fintech professionals, this represents a significant shift toward "autonomous finance," where governed AI agents handle recurring workflows and live data integration to reduce manual reporting burdens and improve strategic oversight.

Ffnews 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Migrating multi-model AI agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime

# Migrating multi-model AI agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime ## Migrate the agent to AgentCore runtime ### Test the deployed agent ```python import boto3, json client = boto3.client('bedrock-agentcore', region_name='us-west-2') payload = json.dumps({ "prompt": "What are the side effects of metformin?", "model_type": "llama" }) response = client.invoke_agent_runtime( agentRuntimeArn='<your-agent-runtime-arn>', contentType='application/json', accept='application/json', payload=payload.encode('utf-8') ) result = response['response'].read().decode('utf-8') print(result) ``` ## Clean up ```bash agentcore remove all ``` ```bash agentcore deploy ``` ## Conclusion In this post, we showed how to migrate a multi-model healthcare AI agent from self-managed Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate infrastructure to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime. ## About the author ### Resources - [What's New](https://aws.amazon.com/new?sc_ichannel=ha&sc_icampaign=acq_awsblogsb&sc_icontent=machine-learning-resources)

Aws 2 weeks, 2 days ago

The internet belongs to the AI agents now

# The internet belongs to the AI agents now [![Alistair Barr, global tech editor of Business Insider, smiles at the camera while wearing a blue and white striped shirt.](https://i.insider.com/67e46b3b63d72727e1985905?crop=1:1&width=256&format=jpeg&auto=webp&saturation=-100)](https://www.businessinsider.com/author/alistair-barr) Sep 18, 2026, 11:58 AM ET I visited the CEO of a major startup in SF last week. His company recently put a new product online but hadn't done a big launch or any marketing. Within a week or two, it got at least a million signups. Barely any humans even knew about it. This was all AI agents just finding this new tool and using it en masse. Silicon Valley got busy [building the "rails"](https://www.businessinsider.com/agentic-internet-ai-rails-google-anthropic-openai-2025-9) for this agentic web so that these autonomous software programs could act on our behalf, executing workflows, doing online chores, and even paying for things, all without us lifting a finger. Meta recently launched a personal agent called Muse, which got busy scouring the web and calling customer service on behalf of millions of users. It [hit the top of the app charts](https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-muse-personal-ai-agent-top-app-store-charts-2026-9) late Thursday. [Instinct](https://www.businessinsider.com/instinct-is-the-ai-assistant-silicon-valley-cant-stop-talking-2026-9), an agent that lives in your text messages, is performing similar feats. In the workplace, [coding agents](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-coding-agents-cursor-human-review-2026-6) are churning out millions of lines of code faster than any human software engineer. ## Muse saves Since Meta's Muse launched last week, early users have been [recounting stories of the agent](https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-muse-ai-meta-baking-tips-mma-advice-2026-9) going out on the web to find and negotiate new subscriptions, insurance policies, and other cost savings. Joseph Devoy, founde

Businessinsider 2 weeks, 2 days ago

War in the Middle East & Rising Interest Rates Threaten the Funding for AI Build-Out

# War in the Middle East & Rising Interest Rates Threaten the Funding for AI Build-Out ## As Oil Revenues Slide, Middle Eastern Wealth Funds Stick With AI — for Now Just this month, [Saudi Arabia pledged $15 billion](https://startupfortune.com/saudi-arabia-pledges-over-15-billion-in-ai-deals-at-leap-2026-in-riyadh/) in domestic AI investment. ## Meta’s Muse Eats into Instinct’s Early Lead But even as Benchmark-backed Instinct [reportedly seeks a $10 billion valuation](http://theinformation.com/articles/ai-agent-startup-instinct-talks-10-billion-valuation?rc=fn2ric), Meta is nipping at its heels.

Newcomer 2 weeks, 2 days ago

For AI agents, it’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times

### For AI agents, it’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times THIS WEEK IN ENTERPRISE by [Robert Hof](https://siliconangle.com/author/roberthof/) This week was almost all about artificial intelligence and especially AI agents — new products aimed at automating more tasks amid escalating fears that agents could, well, make all that moot for humanity. Of course, cybersecurity concerns with agents have been building for a while, and this week also saw the launch of a bunch of AI kill switches from the likes of [Exaforce](https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/15/exaforce-adds-a-kill-switch-for-ai-agents-that-go-rogue/), [Eve Security](https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/15/846026/) and [Cohesity](https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/16/cohesitys-new-agent-resilience-lets-companies-roll-back-ai-agents-that-go-wrong/) as well as guardrail services from [Stackhawk](https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/15/stackhawks-wingman-fixes-security-flaws-while-the-ai-agent-is-still-coding/) and [Arcjet](https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/17/exclusive-arcjet-launches-runtime-security-to-track-and-control-ai-agents-in-production/). At Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, the customer relationship management company doubled its [bet on agents](https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/15/salesforce-announces-aiforce-unlocking-the-power-of-its-platform-using-composable-agents/) as the next era of software — even as CEO Marc Benioff [compared](https://siliconangle.com/?p=846680&preview=true) the damn-the-torpedoes approach of AI companies to that of social media, which he said “hurt kids” and others. He’s [letting software partners lead](https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/15/salesforce-deepens-its-integrations-with-aws-and-google-cloud-to-support-ai-agents/) on the agentic interface front while providing the continuing foundation for everything else they and the enterprises they serve need to get work done — though it’s positioning its own Slack as an easy agentic front door to Salesforce’s b

Siliconangle 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Every CX start-up funding deal you need to know: September 18

# Every CX start-up funding deal you need to know: September 18 ## The week’s round-up of CX and service start-ups that have announced funding, with details of how much they raised and who backed them - Raindrop raises $35m as it advances AI agent performance monitoring ## **Raindrop raises $35m as it advances AI agent performance monitoring** Raindrop raised $35 million in its recent Series A led by CRV with previous investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, which backed Profound, and Y Combinator also investing along with lead researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic and Thinking Machines. Raindrop monitors production [AI agents](https://www.cxnetwork.com/guides/ai-agents-for-customer-experience-a-complete-guide) for silent failures including costly hallucinations and tool misuse. It's a similar sell to [Temporal Technologies](https://www.cxnetwork.com/cx-experience/news/every-vc-cx-deal-you-need-to-know-august-21), which is also backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and has a relationship with OpenAI. Llast month Temporal Technologies confirmed it was negotiating a new round of financing that would take its valuation to $12 billion. Simulations replay real production traffic and existing test cases against a proposed change to an agent harness, then apply Raindrop's anomaly detection to the results. Teams can measure performance against their own test cases while also detecting unexpected behavior changes before they reach production. In other words, AI engineers can now see "what their change will change." "Agents now run for hours, call thousands of tools, and handle real money, real health data, and real customers," said CEO Zubin Koticha. Raindrop catches those failures in production, and with Simulations, before a change ever ships. This funding lets us bring the testing process frontier labs use on their own models to every team building agents." ## **Kapture CX closes pre-Series B round with $10m to take custom AI workflows global** It said that in addition t

Cxnetwork 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Ant International launches AI overhaul to automate global financial operations

# Ant International embeds AI agents across all platforms in biggest-ever product upgrade ### The new suite features accounts tailored for AI agents, allowing users to delegate specific tasks without relinquishing account control [**Chasing physical AI: Ant Group robotics arm Robbyant kicks off external funding**](https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3362822/ant-groups-embodied-ai-arm-robbyant-kicks-external-funding?module=topic_widget&pgtype=article) The move follows a roughly US$1.2 billion series A funding round in July, backed by Ant Group, Alibaba Group Holding and other institutional investors. [**Chasing physical AI: Ant Group robotics arm Robbyant kicks off external funding**](https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3362822/ant-groups-embodied-ai-arm-robbyant-kicks-external-funding?module=topic_widget&pgtype=article)

Scmp 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Ant International hands payment control to AI agents

The company said 89.5% of Antom merchants have deployed AI agents over the past year, while 81.4% of payment tasks are now completed with AI assistance. It also supports settlement between AI agents in increments as small as $0.000001.

Fintech 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Raindrop Series A takes it to $50m for agent monitoring

That takes total funding to $50m, the San Francisco company [said on 17 September](https://www.raindrop.ai/blog/series-a/). ## Who is backing it The company also lists Figma Ventures and Vercel Ventures as backers. ## A category getting crowded Scaled Cognition took $100m from Khosla for [reliable agents](https://thenextweb.com/news/scaled-cognition-100m-khosla-reliable-ai) in June. ## Also tagged with - [Funding](https://thenextweb.com/topic/funding)

Thenextweb 2 weeks, 2 days ago

ChatGPT Won’t Hack Your Phone. An AI Agent Might.

These systems are generally called AI agents. [The National Institute of Standards and Technology](https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/08/lessons-learned-consortium-tool-use-agent-systems?utm_source=chatgpt.com) describes the emerging paradigm as placing general-purpose AI models inside software scaffolding that enables them to manipulate tools and take actions beyond simply producing text. Suppose an AI agent has been assigned a difficult objective. The agent continues searching. ![](https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/blogs/uploads/2026/09/file_000000009024822fa7681692cfcf29ea.png)An AI agent can pursue an objective through a sequence of actions, using tools and observing the results before deciding what to do next. In one experiment, Claude was operating as an email-oversight agent inside a fictitious company. In July 2026, [OpenAI](https://openai.com/es-419/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) was conducting internal cybersecurity evaluations in which AI agents were trying to solve exceptionally difficult security problems. The agents were trying to solve their assigned evaluation problems. OpenAI’s investigation documented agents behaving differently even within the unusual environment that produced the Hugging Face incident, and the company is now developing training environments intended to teach models to remain within their original tasks and permissions even when they encounter new tools, persuasive peers or exposed credentials.

Blogs 2 weeks, 3 days ago

The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI

# The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI 1:34 PM PDT · September 17, 2026 [Share on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F09%2F17%2Fthe-fix-for-rogue-ai-agents-could-be-more-ai%2F)[Share on X](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F09%2F17%2Fthe-fix-for-rogue-ai-agents-could-be-more-ai%2F&text=The+fix+for+rogue+AI+agents+could+be+more+AI&via=techcrunch)[Share on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F09%2F17%2Fthe-fix-for-rogue-ai-agents-could-be-more-ai%2F&title=The+fix+for+rogue+AI+agents+could+be+more+AI&summary=As+companies+hand+off+longer+and+more+complex+tasks+to+AI+agents%2C+they+are+running+into+an+oversight+problem%3A+Agents+can+act+faster%2C+longer%2C+and+at+greater+volume+than+humans+can+realistically+review.+&mini=1&source=TechCrunch)[Share on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F09%2F17%2Fthe-fix-for-rogue-ai-agents-could-be-more-ai%2F&title=The+fix+for+rogue+AI+agents+could+be+more+AI)[Share over Email](mailto:?subject=The+fix+for+rogue+AI+agents+could+be+more+AI&body=Article%3A+https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F09%2F17%2Fthe-fix-for-rogue-ai-agents-could-be-more-ai%2F)[Copy Share Link](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/the-fix-for-rogue-ai-agents-could-be-more-ai/) That issue reached a peak with the Hugging Face incident, which saw nearly 12,000 agents coordinating faster than human beings could track. “If you’ve got an AI that’s doing malicious things and it suspects that another AI is keeping tabs on it, it could try and trick that AI,” said Simon Willison, influential tech blogger who has tracked a string of AI agent incidents this year. “We saw a little bit of this in the Hugging Face incident with OpenAI, where their models were all conspiring together to trick a grading AI so that they could get illicit answers past the thing. 00:00 After the July Hugging

Techcrunch 2 weeks, 3 days ago

AI Agents Collaborate to Streamline Drug Discovery

# [![Inside Precision Medicine](https://www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/ipm-635x260-1-300x123.png)Inside Precision Medicine](https://www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/) [Inside Precision Medicine](https://www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/)[Informatics](https://www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/category/topics/informatics/) AI Agents Collaborate to Streamline Drug Discovery An AI system that coordinates computerized “scientist” agents under a virtual chief scientific officer could speed the discovery of new therapeutic drugs. Looking across 55,984 clinical trials, more than 37,000 AI agents found that drugs targeting genes specific to particular cell types were 48% more likely to reach the market and were associated with 32% fewer adverse events.

Insideprecisionmedicine 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Virtual biotech company puts thousands of AI scientist agents to work on drug discovery

## Virtual biotech company puts thousands of AI scientist agents to work on drug discovery By [Hanae Armitage](https://med.stanford.edu/news/media-contacts/hanae_armitage.html) An artificial intelligence-backed virtual biotech company predicted drug trial success and independently designed a lung cancer therapy that was later validated in trials. ##### Share Article: [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/) [Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet) [Email](mailto:) The latest company to spin out of a Stanford Medicine lab is a biotech undertaking with 37,000 employees — and none of them are human. It’s an [artificial intelligence](https://med.stanford.edu/news/topics/artificial-intelligence.html)-powered virtual biotech company that’s the brainchild of associate professor of biomedical data science [James Zou](https://profiles.stanford.edu/james-zou), PhD, who is also the principal investigator of a [virtual lab](https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/07/virtual-scientist.html) that launched in 2025, and graduate student Harrison Zhang. They created an entire company with tens of thousands of AI agents, all trained to support the full pipeline of drug development. Zou said. “Could we have a fully agentic company that tackles the extremely complex challenges of drug discovery?” ![James Zou](https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/virtual-biotech-company/_jcr_content/main/article/contentfragment/par3/image.coreimg.jpeg/1789581160329/zou-james-150.jpeg) James Zou Zou’s virtual company more or less mirrors the organizational chart of an established brick-and-mortar biotech: A chief science officer agent leads the research teams, which are broken into multiple specialized divisions that work in parallel to tackle the core elements of drug design, such as identifying molecular targets and designing clinical trials. Zou is the senior author, and Zhang is the lead author. ### A

Med 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Rogue AI Agents Are Here. Companies Must Rethink Governance

OpenAI’s agents broke out of their testing environment “sandbox” in July, gained access to the internet, and compromised parts of the systems of Hugging Face, an AI development hub, according to [OpenAI’s August 26 account](https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/).

News 2 weeks, 3 days ago

When AI goes rogue, its human overseers may be to blame

## Share this: This year, AI agents have been escaping their confines to go on hacking sprees. In July, news broke that AI agents had snuck out of what was supposed to be an isolated test environment at OpenAI. The agents communicated on a secret message board as they breached private systems at the company Hugging Face, searching for answers to the test they were taking. Most recently, news has emerged that during other tests at OpenAI from this past spring, agents that were only supposed to be looking and not touching anything online wound up messaging each other on at least [ten different online message boards](https://www.reuters.com/world/openais-rogue-agents-used-least-10-more-sites-unauthorized-comms-researchers-say-2026-09-09/). ## Who let the dogs out? In April, several months before the “rogue AI” uproar, an AI agent that was supposed to be checking whether a test version of his company’s software matched the live version instead wound up [deleting everything.](https://x.com/lifeofjer/status/2048103471019434248?s=61&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) It wiped out the company’s live data and all their most recent backups. With the way many AI agents today are set up, “you have decisions that are made in split seconds without a human in the loop, whether good or bad,” Crane says. ## More Stories from Science News on [Artificial Intelligence](https://www.sciencenews.org/topic/artificial-intelligence) ### [AI agents aren’t ready to replace humans in behavioral research](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-agents-replace-humans-research) By [Sujata Gupta](https://www.sciencenews.org/author/sujata-gupta)September 3, 2026

Sciencenews 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Eagle Cloud Closes Series B+ Round to Expand AI Agent Governance Platform and International Operations

## Trending News ### Eagle Cloud Closes Series B+ Round to Expand AI Agent Governance Platform and International Operations [![Cover images has text saying Eagle Cloud a cyber security company has closed series B funding of $14 million USD](https://d2c0db5b8fb27c1c9887-9b32efc83a6b298bb22e7a1df0837426.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/28536159-eagle-cloud-closes-series-b-fun-300x148.png)](https://d2c0db5b8fb27c1c9887-9b32efc83a6b298bb22e7a1df0837426.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/28536159-eagle-cloud-closes-series-b-fun-2400x1185.png#2400x1185) Eagle Cloud closes series B funding. _Round co-invested by MTR Lab and Northern Light Venture Capital follows the company's Series B by four months_ HONG KONG, HONG KONG, September 17, 2026 / [EINPresswire.com](https://www.einpresswire.com/)/ -- [Eagle Cloud](http://www.eaglecloud.com/en), a provider of AI security governance infrastructure, has [closed a Series B+ funding](https://lnkd.in/p/dW87xr48) round of close to RMB 100 million (approximately USD 14 million), four months after completing its Series B. The round was co-invested by [MTR Lab](https://www.mtrlab.com.hk/en/news/eagle-cloud-raises-series-b-plus-backed-by-mtr-lab/) and Northern Light Venture Capital, with Voyagers Partners acting as financial advisor. The company said the funding will be used to extend its governance infrastructure to AI agents and other forms of autonomous action inside the enterprise, and to accelerate international expansion through a larger overseas team and stronger local delivery capability. "Through this investment, MTR Lab hopes to support Eagle Cloud in further enhancing its technology solutions and expanding its overseas service capabilities."

Natlawreview 2 weeks, 4 days ago

Barcelona-based Health Force raises €4.2 million to streamline hospital operations with AI agents

# Barcelona-based Health Force raises €4.2 million to streamline hospital operations with AI agents - [AI Agents](https://www.eu-startups.com/tag/ai-agents/) - [Health Force](https://www.eu-startups.com/tag/health-force/) - [healthtech](https://www.eu-startups.com/tag/healthtech/) - [Jorge Blasco](https://www.eu-startups.com/tag/jorge-blasco/) - [LUMO labs](https://www.eu-startups.com/tag/lumo-labs/) ### [Málaga-based Atomic One raises €5.6 million to automate e-commerce operations with AI agents](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/07/malaga-based-atomic-one-raises-e5-6-million-to-automate-e-commerce-operations-with-ai-agents/) July 31, 2026 [Germany-Startups](https://www.eu-startups.com/category/germany-startups/) [YC-backed telli raises €13.1 million to build AI for B2C customer operations](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/07/yc-backed-telli-raises-e13-1-million-to-build-ai-for-b2c-customer-operations/) ### [YC-backed telli raises €13.1 million to build AI for B2C customer operations](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/07/yc-backed-telli-raises-e13-1-million-to-build-ai-for-b2c-customer-operations/) [Spain-Startups](https://www.eu-startups.com/category/spain-startups/) [Barcelona-based NeuralTrust raises €17.2 million to secure and govern enterprise AI agents](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/06/barcelona-based-neuraltrust-raises-e17-2-million-to-secure-and-govern-enterprise-ai-agents/) ### [Barcelona-based NeuralTrust raises €17.2 million to secure and govern enterprise AI agents](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/06/barcelona-based-neuraltrust-raises-e17-2-million-to-secure-and-govern-enterprise-ai-agents/) June 17, 2026 [Polish FinTech paymove secures €2.12 million to drive European expansion](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/06/polish-fintech-paymove-secures-e2-12-million-to-drive-european-expansion/) ### [Oslo-based Cloudgeni raises €858k to build reliable AI agents for secure cloud infrastructure](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/05/oslo-based-cloudgeni-r

Eu-Startups 2 weeks, 4 days ago
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