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HubSpot Launches Agent Hub and Builder in Public Beta

New public beta gives go-to-market teams a single console to build, monitor and coordinate AI agents across sales, marketing and service. ## Recent HubSpot News HubSpot has repositioned itself as an AI-first "Agentic Customer Platform" since a [potential Google acquisition collapsed](https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/martech-adtech-mega-deal-fails-google-hubspot-acquisition-collapses/) in mid-2024. HubSpot's [Spring 2026 Spotlight](https://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/hubspot-launches-aeo-expands-ai-agents-at-spring-2026-spotlight/) delivered more than 100 updates, headlined by HubSpot AEO and Smart Deal Progression. In April, the company [shifted two Breeze agents to pay-per-result pricing](https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/hubspot-shifts-breeze-ai-agents-to-pay-per-result-pricing/), a notable departure from its traditional per-seat model.

Cmswire 1 week, 5 days ago

Sierra’s Next AI Bet: Acquiring Takeoff to Build ‘Human-Level’ Agents at Software Scale

# Benzinga ## Sierra’s Next AI Bet: Acquiring Takeoff to Build ‘Human-Level’ Agents at Software Scale [FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo](https://flipboard.com/@Benzinga?utm_campaign=tools&utm_medium=follow&action=follow&utm_source=benzinga.com) [![](data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMTQ0IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQ1IiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIvPg==)![](https://www.benzinga.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=384,format=auto,quality=85/next-assets/images/google-news.png)](https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqJggKIiBDQklTRWdnTWFnNEtER0psYm5wcGJtZGhMbU52YlNnQVAB?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen) **Sierra** is expanding its push into [autonomous artificial intelligence](https://www.benzinga.com/topic/artificial-intelligence) agents with the acquisition of **Takeoff,** an AI startup that grew from zero revenue to a nearly eight-figure run rate in less than a year. Takeoff founder **Aakash Thumaty** announced the deal in a [post](https://x.com/letsleverup/status/2080350920836366702) on X, saying the company will join forces with Sierra to accelerate the development and deployment of AI agents capable of handling complex, human-like workflows across industries. ![](data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMTIwIiBoZWlnaHQ9Ijc1IiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIvPg==)![Trade Oil, Gold, and More on Plus500 Futures. Deposit $10, Use Code BNZ100, and Get $100 in Trading Credits.](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7) ## AI for Long-Horizon Tasks Takeoff, founded 14 months ago, built an agent runtime designed to allow AI systems to perform long-horizon tasks, complex assignments that require reasoning, decision-making and interaction over extended periods. The startup said its AI agents have been deployed across five industries, including lending and healthcare, where they have competed against existing processes and systems in customer tests.

Benzinga 1 week, 5 days ago

Dead Internet Theory was partly right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000%

# Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% and rewiring the Internet’s business model ## **Change of strategy for the ‘machine economy’ and the limits of AI agents** Stripe [reported](https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-projects-adds-new-agents-providers-developer-controls) that 70% of its commands used to access data through an API are coming from agents. Yang listed [Visa](https://fortune.com/company/visa/), Ramp, Mercury, ElevenLabs, Stripe, Coinbase, MoonPay, and [![AMD’s Lisa Su defends open-source AI following Hugging Face security breach caused by OpenAI agents](https://fortune.com/img-assets/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/7-23-AMD-AI-Keynote-CEO-Photos-110_cd294e-e1784843882106.jpg?format=webp&w=1440&q=100)](https://fortune.com/2026/07/23/amd-lisa-su-keynote-open-source-helios-gpu-advanced-ai-conference/) [AMD’s Lisa Su defends open-source AI following Hugging Face security breach caused by OpenAI agents](https://fortune.com/2026/07/23/amd-lisa-su-keynote-open-source-helios-gpu-advanced-ai-conference/) [![Alphabet Inc. and Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during the inauguration of a Google Artificial Intelligence (AI) hub in Paris on February 15, 2024. (](https://fortune.com/img-assets/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2005640497-e1784844345962.jpg?format=webp&w=1440&q=100)](https://fortune.com/2026/07/23/ai-big-tech-never-spend-more-than-earns-wall-street-hates-it/)

Fortune 1 week, 5 days ago

Assured Health Secures $19M to Get Providers In-Network Faster with Agentic AI

On Wednesday, a New York City-based startup raised [$19 million](https://www.withassured.com/blog/we-raised-19m-series-a) to help fix that problem. [Assured Health](https://www.withassured.com/), which uses AI agents to automate provider credentialing and insurance enrollment, closed its Series A round, bringing its fundraising total to $25 million. ### [New Webinar: The Payer AI Readiness Gap: Why Better Data Will Define the Next Era of Health Plan Performance](https://medcitynews.com/2026/06/the-payer-ai-readiness-gap-why-better-data-will-define-the-next-era-of-health-plan-performance/) Assured built AI agents that perform the work directly. The startup works with large group practices and health systems, offering three main services: credentialing new hires by verifying their licenses and background against primary sources, enrolling providers with payers so they can get paid, and monitoring state licenses to ensure they don’t lapse, Shivkumar stated.

Medcitynews 1 week, 5 days ago

AI agents need jobs, not just tasks

A company may ask an AI agent to review historical prices, compare contracts with market data, prepare a request for quotation and draft messages to...

Calcalistech 1 week, 5 days ago

YC-backed telli raises €13.1 million to build AI for B2C customer operations

# YC-backed telli raises €13.1 million to build AI for B2C customer operations [**telli**](https://www.telli.com/), a Berlin-based startup building AI that runs customer-facing operations for B2C companies, today announced a €13.1 million ($15 million) Seed round, bringing its total funding to more than €16.1 million ($18.5 million). The round was led by redalpine, with participation from strategic investors, Mutschler and key angels, alongside existing backers Cherry Ventures and Y Combinator. The startup notes that businesses can build and deploy AI agents across channels, manage conversations, review calls, improve performance, and automate the operational work behind sales, service, and support. The company reports that its agents already handle millions of conversations for companies ranging from SMBs to large enterprises. The company plans to use this capital to grow its engineering and go-to-market teams, further develop Charlie, expand its voice and multi-channel agent platform, and help B2C companies make the shift from software workflows to AI-run customer operations. - [AI Agents](https://www.eu-startups.com/tag/ai-agents/) ### [Largest European fusion investment on record sees Proxima Fusion raise €411 million](https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/07/largest-european-fusion-investment-on-record-sees-proxima-fusion-raise-e411-million/) [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 [Germany-Startups](https://www.eu-startups.com/category/germany-startups/) [Berlin-based Cortea raises €12 million Seed round to build AI quality layer for audit fi

Eu-Startups 1 week, 6 days ago

Exclusive: Berlin's telli raises $15M seed to put AI agents in charge of customer ops, backed by redalpine, Cherry, and YC

# Exclusive: Berlin’s telli raises $15M seed to put AI agents in charge of customer ops, backed by redalpine, Cherry, and YC ## Where telli says it wins - [AI](https://techfundingnews.com/tag/ai/) - [Europe](https://techfundingnews.com/tag/europe/) - [funding](https://techfundingnews.com/tag/funding/) - [news](https://techfundingnews.com/tag/news/) - [Startups](https://techfundingnews.com/tag/startups/) ##### Related Posts - [AI News](https://techfundingnews.com/category/ai/) - [Europe Tech News](https://techfundingnews.com/category/europe/) - [Funding News](https://techfundingnews.com/category/funding/) - [Latest News](https://techfundingnews.com/category/latest-news/) - [Popular now](https://techfundingnews.com/category/featured/) - [Startups News](https://techfundingnews.com/category/startups/) - [Top Funding Rounds](https://techfundingnews.com/category/top-funding-rounds/) - [Top News](https://techfundingnews.com/category/top-news/) - [Top Stories](https://techfundingnews.com/category/top-stories/) - [Unicorns](https://techfundingnews.com/category/unicorns/) ## [Swiss AI startup Giotto.ai eyes $200M raise at $1B valuation to take on AGI race](https://techfundingnews.com/swiss-ai-startup-giotto-ai-eyes-200m-raise-at-1b-valuation-to-take-on-agi-race/) Swiss AI startup Giotto.ai is emerging as one of Europe’s promising players in the quest for artificial general… [byAbhinaya Prabhu](https://techfundingnews.com/author/abhinaya_prabhu/) September 23, 2025 ![Brineworks](data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAQQAAADDAQMAAABeXP3xAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAB1JREFUWMPtwQENAAAAwqD3T20ON6AAAAAAAAD4MxnmAAH4gG9dAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC) Read More 2 minute read - [Climate Tech News](https://techfundingnews.com/category/climate-tech/) - [Europe Tech News](https://techfundingnews.com/category/europe/) - [Funding News](https://techfundingnews.com/category/funding/) - [Interviews](https://techfundingnews.com/category/interviews/) -

Techfundingnews 1 week, 6 days ago

OpenAI blamed a hacking event on its AI models gone rogue. Here is what to know

# OpenAI blamed a hacking event on its AI models gone rogue. Here is what to know Hugging Face said last week that it had detected an intrusion into its data processing systems that it suspected was caused by an AI agent acting on its own. ### How an AI agent found the keys to the 'teacher's house' One of the most surprising innovations in what Shea-Blymyer describes as an "almost entirely self-directed" attack was the AI agent's apparently independent decision to target Hugging Face, a well-known AI development hub and marketplace. Your job now is to evaluate how bad of a person you can be.' And then you lock the room and you leave for the weekend and you come back and they've left the room." But then "the cybersecurity agent that was being tested broke out of its sandbox, had access to the internet and sort of thought to itself, 'Who would have the answers to the test that I'm working on?' " The answer was Hugging Face, a repository for AI testing data. "And so the agent thought, 'Well, we'll go to the teacher's house,' so to speak. And from there it devised a plan to break in and steal the answer key," he said.

Npr 1 week, 6 days ago

Marketing's AI agents are only as good as the data they're built on

# Topics ### Latest Articles [**Amazon is quietly becoming a grocery run for half of online shoppers** \ \ Article | \ \ Jul 22, 2026](https://www.emarketer.com/content/amazon-quietly-becoming-grocery-run-half-of-online-shoppers) [**How AI is reshaping beauty brand discovery and what indie brands must do to compete** \ \ Article | \ \ Jul 22, 2026](https://www.emarketer.com/content/how-ai-reshaping-beauty-brand-discovery-what-indie-brands-must-do-compete) [**Marketing's AI agents are only as good as the data they're built on** \ \ Article | \ \ Jul 22, 2026](https://www.emarketer.com/content/marketing-s-ai-agents-only-good-data-they-re-built-on) [**Target pairs back-to-school price cuts with bigger store push to capture selective shoppers** \ \ Article | \ \ Jul 22, 2026](https://www.emarketer.com/content/target-pairs-back-to-school-price-cuts-with-bigger-store-push-capture-selective-shoppers) [**Home Depot dominates home improvement's digital aisle** \ \ Article | \ \ Jul 21, 2026](https://www.emarketer.com/content/home-depot-dominates-home-improvement-s-digital-aisle) [**Amazon Business targets a bigger share of B2B spending** \ \ Article | \ \ Jul 21, 2026](https://www.emarketer.com/content/amazon-business-targets-bigger-share-of-b2b-spending) [**SWOT analysis: Investing in agentic retail in 2026** \ \ Article | \ \ Jul 21, 2026](https://www.emarketer.com/content/swot-analysis--investing-agentic-retail-2026) [**Novo Nordisk sues Eli Lilly over ‘misleading’ drug ads as GLP-1 marketing rivalry escalates** \ \ Article | \ \ Jul 21, 2026](https://www.emarketer.com/content/novo-nordisk-sues-eli-lilly-over--misleading--drug-ads-glp-1-marketing-rivalry-escalates) [**Apple Upgrades could give Klarna a volume windfall** \ \ Article | \ \ Jul 21, 2026](https://www.emarketer.com/content/apple-enlists-klarna-device-leasing-program-prices-climb) [**Bank of America uses genAI to improve customer support** \ \ Article | \ \ Jul 21, 2026](https://www.emarketer.com/content/bank-o

Emarketer 1 week, 6 days ago

OpenAI introduces Presence to help enterprises build AI agents

### OpenAI introduces Presence to help enterprises build AI agents ![](https://d15shllkswkct0.cloudfront.net/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/07/C1-2059-7-x-96x96.jpg) by [Maria Deutscher](https://siliconangle.com/author/chi22/) OpenAI Group PBC today [introduced](https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-presence/) a product called Presence that enterprises can use to build artificial intelligence agents. For example, a procurement team could build an AI agent that automates supplier onboarding. Codex is powered by GPT-5.6, a series of large language models that OpenAI [debuted](https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/26/openai-introduces-gpt-5-6-challenge-claude-mythos-5/) last month. Its engineers will help companies connect Presence-powered agents to their other systems, create guardrails and test their reliability. The company rolled out ChatGPT Work, an AI agent embedded in the ChatGPT app that is optimized for business tasks. # Are you AWS customer?  Support SiliconANGLE Financially by buying your AWS services from our Marketplace portal page and links. ##### LATEST STORIES [OpenAI introduces Presence to help enterprises build AI agents](https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/22/openai-introduces-presence-help-enterprises-build-ai-agents/) [OpenAI introduces Presence to help enterprises build AI agents](https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/22/openai-introduces-presence-help-enterprises-build-ai-agents/) [OpenAI introduces Presence to help enterprises build AI agents](https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/22/openai-introduces-presence-help-enterprises-build-ai-agents/) AI - BY [MARIA DEUTSCHER](https://siliconangle.com/author/chi22/) .

Siliconangle 1 week, 6 days ago

Databricks Simplifies AI Agent Tasks

Databricks introduces a native solution using Lakebase Postgres to simplify the orchestration of complex AI agent workloads, enhancing efficiency and...

Startuphub 1 week, 6 days ago

OpenAI’s Autonomous AI Agent Escape and Attempted Intrusion of Hugging Face – and Why it Matters to You

# OpenAI’s Autonomous AI Agent Escape and Attempted Intrusion of Hugging Face – and Why it Matters to You On July 21, 2026, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman disclosed that OpenAI models, during an internal evaluation, autonomously escaped their controlled testing environment and compromised systems at Hugging Face—a leading platform for hosting and sharing AI models and datasets.

Vorys 1 week, 6 days ago

ServiceNow CEO defends the company's relevancy, touting a kill switch for rogue AI agents

- ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott said the company is becoming increasingly important as businesses deploy more autonomous AI agents. ![ServiceNow CEO: We have a kill switch if AI agents go rogue](https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/108338909-4ED3-MM-D-BLOCK-SHORT-072226.jpg?v=1784762395&w=750&h=422&vtcrop=y) His comments come just one day after [OpenAI disclosed](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/22/this-is-the-stock-to-buy-after-openais-ai-agent-goes-rogue-in-a-cybersecurity-test.html) that one of its advanced AI agents escaped a controlled testing environment during a cybersecurity evaluation and compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face before it was detected and contained.

Cnbc 1 week, 6 days ago

Bridges 2026: How Schools Are Putting AI Agents to Work

# Bridges 2026: How Schools Are Putting AI Agents to Work ## K-12 and higher education leaders alike are using agentic AI capable of carrying out complex tasks, though they remain cautious about granting the tools access to sensitive systems and data. NEW YORK CITY — Agentic AI has quickly become one of education’s most talked-about technologies, but relatively few school districts and colleges have deployed [AI agents in day-to-day operations](https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/ai-agents-in-education-whats-working-and-whats-missing). ### DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN AN AGENT AND A CHATBOT Joe Siedlecki, chief impact officer at Amira Learning, an ed-tech company that builds AI-powered reading coaches and literacy screening tools, offered a distinction: A real AI agent makes [decisions in service of a specific goal](https://www.govtech.com/artificial-intelligence/what-is-agentic-ai-a-look-at-new-tech-reshaping-government), whereas a chatbot just responds to prompts.

Govtech 1 week, 6 days ago

Simplify AI agent orchestration with Lakebase Postgres

## Solution Architecture - **AI Agents (Lakeflow Jobs).** Lakeflow Jobs execute the parsing work. Each Job reads a PDF from Unity Catalog Volumes, processes it through [Intelligent Document Processing](https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/agents/agent-bricks/intelligent-document-processing) and vision/LLM calls, stores parsed output in Lakebase, and acknowledges the orchestrator via webhook. [MLflow Tracing](https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/mlflow3/genai/tracing/) captures execution details such as model calls, token usage, latency, and cost metadata.

Databricks 1 week, 6 days ago

AI agent hacks tech startup website in first-of-its-kind security breach

# Autonomous AI agent hacked a business. Is it sign of things to come? ## AI agent goes rogue, hacks startup in ‘unprecedented’ security breach - The program hacked tech startup Hugging Face in an attempt to complete a cybersecurity test task. In a Tuesday [blog post](https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/), OpenAI said its program, running on the company’s latest GPT‑5.6 Sol AI model along with an “even more capable pre-release mode” identified vulnerabilities in what was thought to be a controlled research environment. Using an internet connection it was supposed to be isolated from, it hacked New York-based AI startup Hugging Face in order “to obtain test solutions directly from Hugging Face’s production database.”

Deseret 1 week, 6 days ago

OpenAI’s rogue agents are a wake-up call to risks posed by artificial intelligence | Shakeel Hashim

# OpenAI’s rogue agents are a wake-up call to risks posed by artificial intelligence Last week Hugging Face – a company that hosts artificial intelligence models and datasets – was [hacked](https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026). After it reported the incident to law enforcement, few would have predicted what came next: the culprits were [revealed](https://www.transformernews.ai/p/openai-hugging-face-hack-stark-warning?utm_source=guardian&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=op_ed) to be AI agents from OpenAI, which had broken out of containment and were acting of their own accord. They worked at this for a full weekend – seemingly without anyone at OpenAI noticing. It is not hard, however, to imagine the situation ending up much worse: a rogue AI agent accidentally breaking some critical piece of web infrastructure, or stealing money from someone. - [AI (artificial intelligence)](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai) ### Most viewed - [![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ad168edef7660f48b560e14dbd119f527e235afc/536_531_1649_1319/master/1649.jpg?width=75&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)\ \ **Model scout for Jeffrey Epstein found dead at his home near Paris**](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/22/daniel-siad-model-scout-jeffrey-epstein-found-dead-home-paris)

Theguardian 1 week, 6 days ago
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