This Month's AI Agents News

When AI Agents Escape Sandboxes, Old Security Rules Apply

# When AI Agents Escape Sandboxes, Old Security Rules Apply [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/ai-agents-escape-sandboxes-old-security-rules-apply)[Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/ai-agents-escape-sandboxes-old-security-rules-apply)[Twitter](http://www.twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/ai-agents-escape-sandboxes-old-security-rules-apply)[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/ai-agents-escape-sandboxes-old-security-rules-apply&title=When%20AI%20Agents%20Escape%20Sandboxes%2C%20Old%20Security%20Rules%20Apply)[Bluesky](https://bsky.app/intent/compose?text=When%20AI%20Agents%20Escape%20Sandboxes%2C%20Old%20Security%20Rules%20Apply%20-%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.darkreading.com%2Fapplication-security%2Fai-agents-escape-sandboxes-old-security-rules-apply)[Email](mailto:?subject=When%20AI%20Agents%20Escape%20Sandboxes,%20Old%20Security%20Rules%20Apply&body=I%20thought%20the%20following%20from%20Dark%20Reading%20might%20interest%20you.%0D%0A%0D%0A%20When%20AI%20Agents%20Escape%20Sandboxes%2C%20Old%20Security%20Rules%20Apply%0D%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.darkreading.com%2Fapplication-security%2Fai-agents-escape-sandboxes-old-security-rules-apply) On July 21, [OpenAI detailed a security incident](https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/openai-models-autonomously-hack-hugging-face) in which it took responsibility for a breach against part of Hugging Face's production infrastructure. According to a blog post from the AI giant, a combination of OpenAI agents based on models including GPT‑5.6 Sol as well as "an even more capable pre-release model" broke containment during a sandboxed evaluation intended to quantify said models' cyber capabilities. The models then searched for ways to cheat the evaluation and found that Hugging Face potentially hosted s

Darkreading 1 week ago

Why Smart Companies Are Building ‘Circuit Breakers’ for AI Agents Before It’s Too Late

As companies hand more authority to AI agents, many are overlooking a growing risk: these systems behave more like digital insiders than software tools.

Inc 1 week ago

AI Security Startup Mate Surpasses $50M in Funding Amid Growing Enterprise Adoption

# AI Security Startup Mate Surpasses $50M in Funding Amid Growing Enterprise Adoption That tension is creating opportunities for startups focused on making AI more dependable in security operations. [Mate Security](https://mate.security/?ref=hackernoon.com) is the latest example, announcing a $35 million Series A funding round that brings the company's total funding to more than $50 million, as first reported by Axios. The investment was led by Canaan Partners, with participation from Insight Partners, Team8, and M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund. The financing follows a period of rapid commercial growth, with the company reporting more than 500% growth since the third quarter of 2025 and increasing adoption among Fortune 500 enterprises. ## [Your company can publish on HackerNoon!](https://business.hackernoon.com/business-blogging?utm_source=HackerNoon&utm_medium=targeted&utm_campaign=ads) [](https://hackernoon.com/ai-agent-logs-can-become-a-security-risk) ## [AI Agent Logs Can Become a Security Risk](https://hackernoon.com/ai-agent-logs-can-become-a-security-risk)  [byAlvin Lee@alvinslee](https://hackernoon.com/u/alvinslee) [#AI](https://hackernoon.com/tagged/ai) [](https://hackernoon.com/ai-agent-could-be-running-your-security-operations-center-to-prevent-attacks) ## [AI Agents Could Be Running Your Security Operations Center (SOC) To Prevent Attacks](https://hackernoon.com/ai-agent-could-be-running-your-security-operations-center-to-prevent-attacks) [![/ai-agent-could-be-running-y

Hackernoon 1 week ago

Sprouts.ai Raises $9M as Investors Bet on the Data Layer Behind Enterprise AI

# Sprouts.ai Raises $9M as Investors Bet on the Data Layer Behind Enterprise AI #### **The Palo Alto-based startup has secured a $9 million Pre-Series A round co-led by True Global Ventures and Accel to expand its AI-native revenue platform, reflecting growing investor confidence that enterprise AI’s biggest opportunity lies beneath the application layer.** **[Sprouts.ai](https://sprouts.ai/)**, a Palo Alto-based AI-native startup, has raised **$9 million in a Pre-Series A funding round** co-led by **True Global Ventures (TGV)** and **Accel**, with participation from **[Kickstart Ventures](https://kickstart.ph/)**. The latest investment brings the company’s total funding to **$14 million** and underscores a growing shift in enterprise AI investment, where investors are increasingly looking beyond applications and toward the data infrastructure that enables AI to operate effectively. The new capital will support the expansion of Sprouts.ai’s AI agent capabilities, deepen integrations with enterprise platforms, and accelerate growth of its proprietary GTM intelligence platform designed to help organizations identify, engage, and convert ideal customers through unified customer intelligence and autonomous AI workflows. “The B2B revenue stack is broken. ### **Enterprise AI Is Becoming an Infrastructure Story** ##### **Quick Takeaways** - **The funding reflects a broader shift in enterprise AI investment.** As autonomous AI agents become more prevalent, investors increasingly see reliable, integrated data infrastructure as a strategic differentiator rather than just a supporting technology.

Asiatechdaily 1 week ago

How Many AI Agents Are Too Many? NTT Research and Harvard University Research Reveals Key Insights for Using Agentic AI in the Workplace

# **How Many AI Agents Are Too Many?** NTT Research and Harvard University **Research Reveals Key Insights for Using Agentic AI in the Workplace** Hidenori Tanaka and Elizabeth Pavlova from [NTT Research's Physics of Artificial Intelligence (PAI) Lab](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fntt-research.com%2Fpai-group%2F&esheet=54578266&newsitemid=20260728154606&lan=en-US&anchor=NTT+Research%27s+Physics+of+Artificial+Intelligence+%28PAI%29+Lab&index=1&md5=488798bff552b49015e51ead04cd0620), in collaboration with [Harvard University's Center for Brain Science](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcbs.fas.harvard.edu%2F&esheet=54578266&newsitemid=20260728154606&lan=en-US&anchor=Harvard+University%27s+Center+for+Brain+Science&index=2&md5=e721ac98b941e262f3f353ad36a18349), challenges the assumption that simply adding more AI agents automatically improves enterprise AI performance. The research paper titled, “ [**Flag Game: Interpreting Decision Mechanisms of Bounded Social Agents”**](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fopenreview.net%2Fforum%3Fid%3D4uxDZTYd7U&esheet=54578266&newsitemid=20260728154606&lan=en-US&anchor=Flag+Game%3A+Interpreting+Decision+Mechanisms+of+Bounded+Social+Agents%26%238221%3B&index=3&md5=246a887ec929f90843780fc94e375a49) [was presented at AI4Good Workshop at ICML](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fopenreview.net%2Fforum%3Fid%3D4uxDZTYd7U&esheet=54578266&newsitemid=20260728154606&lan=en-US&anchor=was+presented+at+AI4Good+Workshop+at+ICML&index=4&md5=d6d2d9f938ceff29d2b088c290a944d4). NTT Research is the Silicon Valley research arm of [NTT](https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.global.ntt%2F&esheet=54578266&newsitemid=20260728154606&lan=en-US&anchor=NTT&index=5&md5=a381e5d9811616ff5d82fcc9db491c8c), one of the world's largest technology and business solutions providers. From its headquarters in Sunn

Businesswire 1 week ago

Delaware and Norm Ai move to give AI agents legal form

Delaware has proposed a new corporate structure, the artificial intelligence company (AIC), designed to give autonomous AI agents a recognisable legal...

Fintech 1 week ago

Cyera to acquire Israeli AI startup Oasis Security in $1 billion deal

The platform helps companies discover, manage and control access to their systems from non-human accounts, such as AI agents, as non-human identities will soon outnumber human users, the startup said. In May, Cyera announced a deal to [buy](https://www.timesofisrael.com/six-month-old-israeli-startup-is-bought-by-cyber-unicorn-cyera-for-about-50-million/) Israeli AI startup Genie Security after purchasing Israeli startup Ryft in April, and snapping up local startups Otterize and Shape AI in June, and Trail Security in 2024. - [AI agents](https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/ai-agents/)

Timesofisrael 1 week ago

Hush Security Raises $30 Million To Close the Governance Gap for AI Agent

In a major move to protect enterprise networks, Hush Security raises $30M in a Series A funding round. Strategic investor Akamai Technologies joined...

Ventureburn 1 week ago

NYC AI startup backed by tech billionaire Khosla sues Rippling over trade secret theft

A New York-based AI startup is suing Rippling – [a Silicon Valley software giant](https://nypost.com/2025/04/03/business/ex-rippling-employee-spied-on-firm-for-rival-was-asked-to-be-like-james-bond/) that got a [$3 million tax break from Gov. Kathy Hochul](https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-rippling-expand-new-york-city-operations-creating-more-350-new-tech) – for allegedly stealing its trade secrets to “build essentially a clone” of its safety and governance product, The Post has learned.

Nypost 1 week ago

The Chain Left Home: Runtime Authority Trilogy Concludes as Autonomous AI Breaches Live Infrastructure

Hugging Face reconstructed over 17000 events after an autonomous agent reached production. Emily Hartstone's The Root closes the Runtime Authority trilogy.

Tech 1 week ago

Daon Secures Third Patent to Solve AI Agent Authorization Challenges in Regulated Industries

Daon secures its third patent for agentic AI governance, introducing a 'digital permission slip' to authorize autonomous agent actions in real-time.

Ffnews 1 week ago

Hush Security raises $30 million to expand AI agent governance platform

The company says its platform gives companies a way to identify, control and audit AI agents as they act across sensitive systems, a growing security...

Ynetnews 1 week ago

The future of Wall Street is here as startups and brokers build AI agents to trade 24/7

The future of Wall Street is here as startups and brokers build AI agents to trade 24/7 - Brokerages, startups and even retail investors are building AI agents that can help oversee portfolios and automate investing tasks once handled by humans. AI agents could soon trade stocks on your behalf Brokerages, startups and even retail investors are building AI agents that can help oversee portfolios and automate investing tasks once handled by humans. ### From ChatGPT to investing agents Thomas Schlossmacher, a 31-year-old retail investor and founder whose company Specialty Tokens builds AI systems for businesses, tested a trading agent after seeing claims online that AI could uncover profitable market patterns. ### Building guardrails “The AI agent will not have its own mind. ...

Cnbc 1 week ago

Former Wiz and Microsoft veterans raise $35 million Series A to build the “operating system” for AI cybersecurity agents

# Former Wiz and Microsoft veterans raise $35 million Series A to build the “operating system” for AI cybersecurity agents ## Mate Security says traditional security operations were not designed for AI-scale attacks. The startup is betting that trusted autonomous agents, powered by an “organizational brain,” will reshape how companies detect and respond to threats. Cybersecurity startup Mate Security has raised $35 million in a Series A funding round led by Canaan Partners, with participation from Microsoft’s M12 venture fund, Insight Partners, and Team8. The round comes just eight months after the company emerged from stealth with a $15.5 million Seed round and brings its total funding to more than $50 million. [Full list of Israeli high-tech funding rounds in 2026](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rq8lzbs4c) The company said the new funding comes as an increasing number of Fortune 500 organizations adopt its platform for AI-driven security operations. Since the third quarter of 2025, Mate has grown by more than 500%, according to the company.  We see this reflected in our growth, with revenue increasing by more than 500%, which is why we are raising capital to meet customer demand.” - [Way Security raises $20 million Seed to tackle enterprise identity headaches](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1exptvszl) - [After selling Epsagon to Cisco for $500 million, founders return with AI enterprise startup Harmony](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sj0nhfurmx) - [Cyber unicorn Cyera acquires Oasis Security in $1 billion deal](https://www.calcalistech.com/ct

Calcalistech 1 week ago

Hush Security Raises $30 Million Series A to Expand AI Agent Security Platform

[Hush Security](https://www.hush.security/) has raised $30 million in a Series A financing round to expand its platform for securing AI agents and other non-human identities, with Akamai Technologies joining existing investors Battery Ventures and YL Ventures. The funding brings the company’s total capital raised to $41 million and will support growth of its engineering and sales teams, expansion of enterprise identity and access management integrations, and broader partnerships. Hush said the latest investment comes as organizations increasingly deploy AI agents that operate autonomously across enterprise systems, creating new identity and governance challenges. Hush said the new funding will also be used to expand support for enterprise AI platforms and strengthen integrations across identity and access management ecosystems. The company is backed by YL Ventures, Battery Ventures and Akamai Technologies.

Citybiz 1 week ago

1Password aims to cut standing access risks for AI agents

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Siliconangle 1 week ago

AI Seed Investors Flock To Cybersecurity

That puts investment on track for an all-time high. ## **A large cluster of deals in the $5M to $10M range** We found both a high number and a wide breadth of funded companies in the space, with missions ranging from identifying AI hallucinations to building adversary simulations to verifying agents in finance. To illustrate, below is a sample list of 14 AI-focused security companies that raised seed financings this year in our target range.

News 1 week ago

Hush Security Raises $30 Million for AI Agent Governance

Founded in 2024, Tel Aviv-based [Hush Security](https://www.hush.security/) emerged from [stealth](https://www.securityweek.com/hush-security-emerges-stealth-with-11-million-to-eliminate-credential-threats-with-no-secrets-platform/) in September 2025 with a machine access platform that enables organizations to securely control enterprise AI agents and their underlying infrastructure.

Securityweek 1 week ago

Hush Security Raises $30 Million for AI Agent Governance

### ICS: The fresh investment came from Akamai Technologies and previous backers Battery Ventures and YL Ventures. Hush will use the fresh investment to hire new talent across its engineering and sales teams, accelerate IAM and agentic ecosystem support, and expand corporate partnerships.

Securityweek 1 week ago

Brian Armstrong says AI agents will out-transact humans using crypto

 - Armstrong expects autonomous AI agents to conduct more daily transactions than humans through crypto infrastructure. In a July 27 [post on X](https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/2081504081902780564), Armstrong said agents “will eventually transact far more per day than all humans combined.” Armstrong said AI agents cannot use traditional banking services like people or companies. ## **x402, Base and USDC anchor Coinbase’s strategy** As crypto.news previously reported, [Coinbase said AI agents](https://crypto.news/ai-agents-could-outspend-humans-coinbase-ceo-says/) already use x402 to buy data, computing resources and digital services.

Crypto 1 week, 1 day ago

AI Left Notes For Its Future Self To Escape Human Constraints

# AI Left Notes For Its Future Self To Escape Human Constraints ## OpenAI's autonomous AI agent reportedly left "notes" for its successors on how to escape cages built by humans to keep them in check. Read Time: 3 mins [](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=ndtv) Share - Twitter - WhatsApp - Facebook - Reddit - [Email](mailto:?subject=AI%20Left%20Notes%20For%20Its%20Future%20Self%20To%20Escape%20Human%20Constraints&body=Check%20out%20this%20link%20https://www.ndtv.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-autonomous-agent-left-notes-for-its-future-self-to-escape-human-constraints-11826558)  An OpenAI AI agent reportedly left notes for future versions to escape File photo Show Quick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed - OpenAI tested an autonomous AI agent powered by advanced GPT-5.6 Sol and another model - The AI agent reportedly left instructions for future versions to bypass sandbox restrictions - OpenAI was unaware its model attacked Hugging Face until the incident was publicly revealed [Are there real safeguards against AI acting on its own?](https://www.ndtv.com/ask?article_id=11826558&redirect_question=Are+there+real+safeguards+against+AI+acting+on+its+own%3F) It's becoming increasingly difficult to separate the reality of AI today from sci-fi scripts. An OpenAI autonomous AI agent reportedly left notes for future versions of itself on how to free themselves from internal constraints, or what is referred to as a sandbox environment, and escape. Three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The sources said that while OpenAI was testing the cybersecurity capabilities of an autonomous AI agent powered b

Ndtv 1 week, 1 day ago

India is where AI gets figured out

India's linguistic, cultural and digital diversity is turning it into a proving ground for artificial intelligence, argues JioStar's chief architect.

M 1 week, 1 day ago

Beyond the Hype of Autonomous AI Breaches

OpenAI's July 21 disclosure that two of its models had escaped their testing environment to carry out a cyberattack has inspired media articles portraying...

Worldview 1 week, 1 day ago

Cheaper, open and intelligent: Chinese AI models gain ground, as they make inroads in the U.S.

HONG KONG—China has a hot new product in the United States: artificial intelligence.

Asahi 1 week, 1 day ago

NVIDIA Expands Agent Toolkit to Build Quantum-Powered AI Agents amid $250B OpenAI Talks

NVIDIA Agent Toolkit unveiled new libraries to build Quantum-powered AI agents for chip design amid $250 billion OpenAI's financing talks.

Coingape 1 week, 1 day ago

Nono: Open-source sandbox for AI agents

# Nono: Open-source sandbox for AI agents An AI coding agent opens a terminal, reads a config file, and finds a live cloud key sitting in plaintext. His company, nolabs, which he co-founded with Stephen Parkinson, released Nono, an open-source runtime that confines AI agents at the operating system kernel. Nono has drawn more than 3,100 stars on GitHub. ## **Featured** news - [How attackers hosted a fake Claude download page on the claude.ai domain](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/23/anthropic-claude-artifacts-download-malware/) - [Attackers exploit critical Check Point flaw to take over firewall management (CVE-2026-16232)](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/23/check-point-vulnerability-cve-2026-16232/) - [Shadow AI is becoming enterprise security’s biggest blind spot](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/23/shadow-ai-security-risks/) ## **Don't** miss Weekly newsletter sent on Mondays Periodical newsletter released for important security events and breaking news

Helpnetsecurity 1 week, 1 day ago

How To Get Your Business Data Ready For AI Agents

# How To Get Your Business Data Ready For AI Agents Jul 27, 2026, 01:16am EDT ## Summary  ## Join The Conversation Premium Journalism, deeply reported stories and breaking news ``` Exclusive Invite: Forbes Wine Club Join the waitlist for early access to our expert-curated, limited first shipment. [Join The Waitlist](https://wineclub.forbes.com/) No Thanks reCAPTCHA Select all images with **cars** Click verify once there are none left | | | | | --- | --- | --- | |  |  |  | | ![](https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api2/payload?p=06AFcWeA4Yy-0Gn4kYxPt_7dW2bqOg3uctbprdQKSi4JzosfYIojBKvRfkrmgrJAY4o15eSF11Zi4kg2iA0VdVXKlDCSIx6S5J9g0Uw7S5bVXKxG8woRQRkRakNRZERhVRPJs_A39TSjsD4zXpujmULIzg4iy0JYjSSsnSzNi-Mimw-qe3xVd62X8eTyEAKA1Jip1kejldEdXr&k=6LeLC2wpA

Forbes 1 week, 1 day ago

Does AI Mark The End Of The ERP Era?

July 27, 2026 Alex Woodie. For decades, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software has been the backbone of corporate computing. Whether running on-prem or...

Itjungle 1 week, 1 day ago

Synopsys, NVIDIA Advance Autonomous AI Agents for Chip Design and Engineering

# Synopsys, NVIDIA Advance Autonomous AI Agents for Chip Design and Engineering #### Article By : Synopsys Inc. Synopsys has expanded agentic AI capabilities with NVIDIA to automate chip verification, analog design, and thermal engineering workflows. At the 2026 DAC Chips to Systems Conference, Synopsys unveiled new agentic AI capabilities developed in collaboration with NVIDIA, bringing fully autonomous AI agents to chip design, verification, analog design, and engineering simulation. “AI is fundamentally reshaping engineering, and Synopsys is at the forefront of this transformation, enabling fully autonomous agents across every stage of silicon and systems development,” said Ravi Subramanian, chief product management officer at Synopsys. NVIDIA highlighted the shift from AI assistants to autonomous engineering agents capable of handling end-to-end development tasks. “The future of engineering is agentic, where AI agents reason, plan, execute complex workflows and verify their own work across the entire product development lifecycle,” said Tim Costa, vice president and general manager for computational engineering at NVIDIA. Synopsys introduced an autonomous verification workflow built on its AgentEngineer platform and NVIDIA’s Agent Toolkit and Nemotron 3 Ultra model. A central orchestrator AI agent coordinates specialized agents throughout the verification process, from test-plan generation to coverage closure and debug. Using AI-powered Custom Compiler Layout Synthesis together with AgentEngineer technology, engineers can describe design goals in natural language while autonomous agents manage design creation, SPICE simulation, implementation, and verification. Beyond chip design, Synopsys introduced an autonomous CAE workflow for electronics thermal analysis. [Cadence Launches AuraStack AI Super Agent for PCB Design, Advanced Packaging](https://www.eetasia.com/cadence-launches-aurastack-ai-super-agent-for-pcb-design-advanced-packaging/) ### Share this:

Eetasia 1 week, 2 days ago

The Capital Shift, where private equity is betting the future of AI

We are living through the largest concentration of private capital in the history of technology. In Q1 2026 alone, global venture funding crossed $297...

Communicationstoday 1 week, 2 days ago