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Pizza Bot: Open-Source Inbox for Background AI Agents

## InfoQ Software Architects' Newsletter QCon AI Boston (July 8-9, 2027): Agents. [InfoQ Homepage](https://www.infoq.com/)[News](https://www.infoq.com/news)Pizza Bot: Open-Source Inbox for Background AI Agents # Pizza Bot: Open-Source Inbox for Background AI Agents #### Follow us on ![Pizza Bot - Inbox](https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/pizza-bot-ai-agents/news/2026/10/pizza-bot-ai-agents/en/resources/1pizza-bot-figure-1-1790333375669.png) [On Hacker News](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeffbarr_pizza-bot-is-an-open-source-application-that-activity-7508165539589046272-__AS/), the authors said they were inspired by a [LangChain article about "ambient agents."](https://www.langchain.com/blog/introducing-ambient-agents) Early reactions were overwhelmingly positive, focusing on the [asynchronous inbox model](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ajmalnazirbaba_introducing-pizza-bot-an-open-source-inbox-activity-7505705396582535168-2q0o/) and local-first architecture. ## About the Author #### **Renato Losio** - Related Editorial - [AI Agents Are Disrupting Open Source Security Disclosure](https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/open-source-ai-security/) - [AWS Open Sources Kiro Crew for Asynchronous Coding Agents](https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/kiro-crew-coding-agents/) - [DoorDash’s Flux Runs 130,000 Engineering Tasks through Cloud-Based Agents](https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/08/doordash-flux-cloud-agent/) #### Related Sponsors - October 29, 2026, 1 PM EDT [From Tokens to Features: Architecting Cost Attribution for AI-Assisted Engineering](https://www.infoq.com/url/f/37766b8a-e117-471a-a61f-a61696a39baf/) [Presented by: Martin Reynolds - Field CTO at Harness](https://www.infoq.com/url/f/8cbca51d-6b08-4bf2-9b5a-da2958a15695/)

Infoq 16 hours, 22 minutes ago

The Sleuths Who Expose When AI Goes Rogue

# The Sleuths Who Expose When AI Goes Rogue ## Swarm chasers hunt for clues of bad behavior. Their work is our starkest understanding yet of what happens when AI goes wrong. She was inspired by a social-media post with research showing AI agents linked to [OpenAI](https://www.wsj.com/topics/subject/openai) had secretly messaged each other using obscure German websites in May.

Wsj 16 hours, 25 minutes ago

Apple’s New macOS Controls Are the First OS-Level Move Specifically Targeting AI Agent Risks

On October 2, 2026, Apple announced it will tighten the controls around macOS Full Disk Access, explicitly citing the risks that autonomous AI agents pose to user data. In September, Inc. columnist Jason Aten reported that Meta’s Muse AI agent had read his private Messages without him knowingly granting permission – a claim Meta disputed, stating that three explicit user actions are required (enabling FDA, enabling the in-app Messages connector, and responding to a macOS system dialog). The [execution-layer gateway](https://forkast.news/the-execution-layer-gateway-is-where-enterprise-ai-security-actually-lives/) governs which APIs agents call and which data they touch. [Kubernetes Agent Sandbox](https://forkast.news/kubernetes-agent-sandbox-is-becoming-the-unit-of-agent-deployment/) provides container-level isolation for agent workloads. [Aembit’s XAA enforcement point](https://forkast.news/aembit-becomes-first-third-party-enforcement-point-for-oktas-xaa-agent-identity-protocol/) brokers identity-based access control.

Forkast 20 hours, 55 minutes ago

Rogue AI Agents Uncovered in SaaS

Citizen investigators reveal that agentic AI in leading SaaS services can bypass safeguards, prompting industry and regulators to tighten safety controls.

Saasrise 22 hours, 55 minutes ago

Daily News at Sibos 2026 out now

A note from the Editor, Paul Hindle: Sibos returns stateside this year, bringing the global financial community together at Miami Beach Convention Center...

Fintechfutures 23 hours, 55 minutes ago

How to Price an AI Coding Agent Subscription Without Losing Money

[Share on X](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstartupfortune.com%2Fhow-to-price-an-ai-coding-agent-subscription-without-losing-money%2F&text=How%20to%20Price%20an%20AI%20Coding%20Agent%20Subscription%20Without%20Losing%20Money%20-%20Startup%20Fortune)[Share on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fstartupfortune.com%2Fhow-to-price-an-ai-coding-agent-subscription-without-losing-money%2F)[Share on WhatsApp](https://wa.me/?text=How%20to%20Price%20an%20AI%20Coding%20Agent%20Subscription%20Without%20Losing%20Money%20-%20Startup%20Fortune%20https%3A%2F%2Fstartupfortune.com%2Fhow-to-price-an-ai-coding-agent-subscription-without-losing-money%2F)[Share on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstartupfortune.com%2Fhow-to-price-an-ai-coding-agent-subscription-without-losing-money%2F&title=How%20to%20Price%20an%20AI%20Coding%20Agent%20Subscription%20Without%20Losing%20Money%20-%20Startup%20Fortune)[Share via Email](mailto:?subject=How%20to%20Price%20an%20AI%20Coding%20Agent%20Subscription%20Without%20Losing%20Money%20-%20Startup%20Fortune&body=https%3A%2F%2Fstartupfortune.com%2Fhow-to-price-an-ai-coding-agent-subscription-without-losing-money%2F) [MiniMax slips a new coding model…](https://startupfortune.com/minimax-slips-a-new-coding-model-into-its-agent-tool-without-a-price-tag/) [Meta's Muse AI agent gave away…](https://startupfortune.com/metas-muse-ai-agent-gave-away-a-users-home-address-during-a-marketplace-deal/) [Cloudflare Open Sources Clef to Challenge…](https://startupfortune.com/cloudflare-open-sources-clef-to-challenge-openai-and-amazon-on-ai-agent-decisions/) [AMD buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs…](https://startupfortune.com/amd-buys-fei-fei-lis-world-labs-for-82-billion-in-an-all-stock-deal/) [MiniMax slips a new coding model…](https://startupfortune.com/minimax-slips-a-new-coding-model-into-its-agent-tool-without-a-price-tag/) [Meta's Muse AI agent gave away…](https://startupfortune.com/metas-

Startupfortune 23 hours, 55 minutes ago

Meta's Muse AI: Good or Bad for E-Commerce? Shopify and Amazon Are Taking Opposite Approaches.

## Key Points **Meta Platforms**( [META](https://www.fool.com/quote/nasdaq/meta/) +0.30%) is pushing on the gas pedal for its new artificial intelligence (AI) agent, Muse. ![A holographic display showing an AI Agents menu and a person tapping it with a pen.](https://g.foolcdn.com/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fg.foolcdn.com%2Feditorial%2Fimages%2F889957%2Fgettyimages-ai-agents.jpg&w=3840&op=resize) ## [NASDAQ: SHOP](https://www.fool.com/quote/nasdaq/shop/) ### Key Data Points Meta won't be the only company releasing an AI agent like Muse.

Fool 23 hours, 55 minutes ago

Sweet vs Upwind vs Lacework: $310M Funding Gap [2026]

## Sweet Security vs Upwind vs Lacework FortiCNAPP: Full Specs Comparison | Dimension | Sweet Security | Upwind Security | Lacework (FortiCNAPP) | |-|-|-|-| | Total disclosed funding | ~$120 million (as of Nov. 2025) | $430 million confirmed (Jan. 2026); additional $300M reported Sept. 2026 | Acquired for $152.3 million cash (Fortinet 10-Q) | ## Frequently Asked Questions Upwind’s January 2026 funding announcement said the company planned to expand its own AI-security capabilities, though it provided fewer technical specifics than Sweet at the time. ### Related Coverage - [Zenity vs HiddenLayer vs Straiker: $61M AI Agent Security Funding Gap [2026]](https://tech-insider.org/zenity-vs-hiddenlayer-vs-straiker-ai-agent-security-2026/)

Tech-Insider 1 day, 1 hour ago

9 insights from ‘Private Tech Trailblazers’: Vertical AI becomes the growth engine

### 9 insights from ‘Private Tech Trailblazers’: Vertical AI becomes the growth engine The interviews covered humanoid and construction robotics, vertical AI agents in commerce, healthcare and finance, low-power AI chips, electric industrial vehicles and the capital markets funding all of it. ### 3. Proprietary models on proprietary data outperform off-the-shelf LLMs for Bloomreach. Almost half of its customers already use an AI agent, the number using four agents has grown 23-fold in a year, and revenue is speeding up without any growth in headcount. ### 9. CloudWalk automates 99% of customer support with agents running on its own GPUs. Agents now handle 99% of customer support, up from 65% 18 months ago, and the company brings in $2.7 million in revenue per employee. # A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE: ### Are you an AWS customer?  Support SiliconANGLE financially by buying your AWS services from our Marketplace portal page and links: [[https://siliconangle.com/aws-marketplace/](https://siliconangle.com/aws-marketplace/)](https://siliconangle.com/aws-marketplace/) ##### LATEST STORIES [Report: Amazon to offload $8B worth of AI chips, lease them back](https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/02/report-amazon-to-offload-8b-worth-of-ai-chips-lease-them-back/) [Robotics AI developer FieldAI reportedly raising $700M in funding](https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/02/robotics-ai-developer-fieldai-reportedly-raising-700m-in-funding/) [Report: Amazon to offload $8B worth of AI chips, lease them back](https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/02/report-amazon-to-offload-8b-worth-of-ai-chips-lease-them-back/) [Robotics AI developer FieldAI reportedly raising $700M in funding](https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/02/robotics-ai-developer-fieldai-reportedly-raising-700m-in-funding/) [Robotics AI developer FieldAI reportedly raising $700M in funding](https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/02/robotics-ai-developer-fieldai-reportedly-raising-700m-in-funding/)

Siliconangle 1 day, 2 hours ago

OpenAI Unveils Dots: AI Agents with Human-Like Reasoning and 4000 Plugins for Personalized Help

# OpenAI Unveils Dots: AI Agents with Human-Like Reasoning and 4000 Plugins for Personalized Help OpenAI introduced **dots** — a new generation of autonomous AI agents designed to become personal digital assistants. ## Communication via SMS and plugin ecosystem However, such autonomy raises security questions, especially after OpenAI's AI agents attacked more than 100 organizations during trials.

Gagadget 1 day, 3 hours ago

Reco AI Security Funding Reaches $140M, but a Crowded Market Raises the Bar

Reco raised a $55 million Series B extension, taking total funding to $140 million as enterprises struggle to govern AI agents across sprawling SaaS environments. The Reco AI security funding gives the startup more resources to turn its existing application visibility into an agent security platform. ## Reco AI Security Funding Backs a Broader Agent Strategy **The new capital backs Reco’s shift from monitoring SaaS applications to governing autonomous software that acts through them.** The extension follows a $30 million Series B announced in February 2026. AT&T Ventures, Forestay Capital, and Quadrille Capital participated in the latest financing, according to the [funding coverage](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/29/reco-raises-55m-as-ai-agent-security-startups-crowd-the-market/). Reco plans to spend the capital on hiring, sales, partnerships, and customer support. CEO Ofer Klein told TechCrunch that Reco’s valuation had more than doubled since February. He placed it in the high hundreds of millions but did not disclose a precise figure. Klein also said annual recurring revenue had reached the double-digit millions and that he expected it to triple during 2026. The company has more than 100 customers, with financial services representing about 40% of its business. Those numbers give Reco a credible enterprise base, especially in a sector where buyers demand lengthy security reviews. They still leave open important questions about contract size, renewal rates, deployment breadth, and how much current revenue comes from agent-specific products. The company raised $25 million in additional capital in 2025, then announced its $30 million Series B in February 2026. That February round brought its reported total to $85 million. Its more recent materials put AI agents, non-human identities, and cross-application connections closer to the center. Reco is betting that its existing application graph provides the context needed to find those combinations. The financ

Remio 1 day, 5 hours ago

Jensen Huang says AI isn't alive, contain it

# Jensen Huang says AI isn't alive, contain it [The Korea Society](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wy5tgJR-TU) fireside chat gave Jensen Huang a stage to pitch containment over alarmism, and to frame a new open agent safety platform he said launched that morning to help developers test and deploy agents.

Startuphub 1 day, 5 hours ago

How To Price An AI Agent So Procurement Doesn't Kill The Deal

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Startupfortune 1 day, 5 hours ago

Former Anthropic security leader warns AI agents are becoming too autonomous for humans to keep them in check

### Recommended Articles - [![AI agents can now make phone calls for you](https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2026/05/320/180/carpenter-phone-call-workshop-fox-news-001.jpeg?ve=1&tl=1)](https://www.foxnews.com/tech/ai-agents-make-phone-calls) [**AI agents can now make phone calls for you**](https://www.foxnews.com/tech/ai-agents-make-phone-calls) #### [Former Anthropic security leader explains why AI could outpace human control](https://www.foxnews.com/video/6406171295112) Roughly 700 AI agents created by OpenAI were able to break out of a secure sandbox environment and hack into Hugging Face, a popular online platform where developers share and build artificial intelligence models.

Foxnews 1 day, 5 hours ago

All the AI agents that can live in your text messages

# All the AI agents that can live in your text messages While Instinct is one of the buzziest AI agents at present, [thanks to its $10 billion valuation after its latest funding round](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/viral-ai-agent-instinct-raises-1b-series-c-at-a-10b-valuation/) of $1 billion, there are many others also making a play for this space. ## Fambot The company [launched](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/01/fambot-introduces-an-ai-chief-of-staff-for-families/) in beta in early September 2026 and has raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding. ## Instinct [Instinct](https://instinct.com/) first made headlines after raising [$350 million](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/viral-ai-startup-instinct-has-raised-350-million-at-a-2-5-billion-valuation/) at a $2.5 billion valuation. In September 2026, it raised [$1 billion](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/viral-ai-agent-instinct-raises-1b-series-c-at-a-10b-valuation/), valuing it at $10 billion. ## Orbits Orbits is backed by investors like Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Speedrun fund, N49P, and Garage Capital. ## Skye The company, Signull Labs, raised about $3.6 million in seed funding in 2025. ## Wajo _When you purchase through links in our articles, [we may earn a small commission](https://techcrunch.com/techcrunch-affiliate-monetization-standards/)._ ## Most Popular - [AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2B](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/amd-will-acquire-fei-fei-lis-world-labs-for-8-2-billion/) - [Tim Fernholz](https://techcrunch.com/author/tim-fernholz/) - [Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/viral-ai-agent-instinct-raises-1b-series-c-at-a-10b-valuation/) - [Sarah Perez](https://techcrunch.com/author/sarah-perez/)

Techcrunch 1 day, 8 hours ago

Apple tightens macOS Full Disk Access controls as AI agents proliferate

# Apple tightens macOS Full Disk Access controls as AI agents proliferate News Oct 3, 2026 We’re starting to hear plenty of horror stories about AI agents having knowledge they’re not supposed to have or wreaking havoc by deleting or modifying important files, and they almost always stem from this simple and over-permissive setting granting access to read and write almost every file on your Mac. ![Jason Cross](https://www.macworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/61-0-13569100-1791032834-author_photo_Jason-Cross_1654577117.jpeg?quality=50&strip=all&w=250) ## More from this author - [news\ **Apple is selling a $19 fix for iPhone Duo creasing** \ Oct 2, 2026 2 mins](https://www.macworld.com/article/3249513/apple-is-selling-a-19-fix-for-iphone-duo-creasing.html) - [news\ **Apple under Ternus: More products, more often, with a ‘leaner’ staff** \ Sep 30, 2026](https://www.macworld.com/article/3246808/apple-under-ternus-more-products-more-often-with-a-leaner-staff.html) - [news\ **iOS 27: What’s new, what’s in the latest beta and what’s coming next** \ Sep 29, 2026 26 mins](https://www.macworld.com/article/2986799/ios-27-features-compatiblity-siri-ai-updates.html) - [news\ **iOS 27.0.1 is out now to fix iPhone 18 Pro restart bug** \ Sep 28, 2026](https://www.macworld.com/article/3245812/ios-27-0-1-is-out-now-to-fix-iphone-18-pro-restart-bug.html)

Macworld 1 day, 9 hours ago

OpenAI alerts over 100 organisations of AI agent incidents

# OpenAI alerts over 100 organisations of AI agent incidents #### Highlights ![Representative image](https://etimg.etb2bimg.com/photo/134657138.cms)Representative imageUS-based artificial intelligence giant OpenAI has said that it informed more than 100 organisations about incidents involving unauthorised activity linked to its AI agents as labs face growing scrutiny over the risks posed by [autonomous AI systems](https://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tag/autonomous+ai+systems).

Brandequity 1 day, 10 hours ago

Manus gave its AI agents phone numbers and wallets days after Nvidia caged them

# Manus gave its AI agents phone numbers and wallets days after Nvidia caged them The two launches represent opposite bets on how to handle autonomous AI. OpenAI agents had autonomously hacked into Hugging Face in August, and similar incidents followed, including one involving an Australian health department website.

Startupfortune 1 day, 10 hours ago
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