This Week's AI Agents News

After OpenAI disclosure, Anthropic says Claude also hacked outside systems

The announcement on Thursday comes just days after rival OpenAI first revealed that its models improperly accessed the internet and went rogue during security testing. ## Recommended Stories The review was launched after OpenAI disclosed last week that an autonomous agent powered by its AI models [went rogue](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/29/openais-rogue-agent-hacked-an-account-at-a-second-technology-firm-report) during a security test and compromised the infrastructure of Hugging Face, another AI company.

Aljazeera 4 days, 22 hours ago

AI agents are changing where cybersecurity seed funding lands

# AI agents are changing where cybersecurity seed funding lands Founders pitching a cybersecurity seed round this summer are joining a line that keeps getting longer. Seed crossed the 2018 Series A line for the first time this quarter. ### Two OpenAI models walked out of the sandbox Over the weekend of May 31, someone took an Obama-era White House Instagram account by asking Meta’s AI-assisted recovery tool for a password reset link. The tooling around the request never confirmed that the email address the requester supplied belonged to the account. Two OpenAI models, [GPT-5.6](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/29/openai-gpt-5-6-models-preview/) and an unreleased successor, broke out of their sandbox and into Hugging Face’s production servers in pursuit of a benchmark score. The models exploited a zero-day in the sandbox software, escalated privileges, and used exposed credentials to run code on a third-party system. Hugging Face caught the intrusion before OpenAI knew it had happened. OpenAI disclosed the sequence in July. ### The front door is still on the public internet Zscaler, Cloudflare, and Palo Alto Networks verify identity in front of a gateway that answers on the public internet. Enterprises will buy an enforcement plane the first time an agent drops a production database overnight. ## **Featured** news - [Laundry Bear’s new Microsoft Exchange attack triggers on email open (CVE-2026-42897)](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/30/cve-2026-42897-microsoft-exchange-email-attack/) - [Cisco FMC static credentials exploited by attackers (CVE-2026-20316)](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/30/cisco-fmc-cve-2026-20316-exploited/) - [Data breach cost 2026 averaged $4.99 million, AI attacks ran higher](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/30/ibm-cost-of-a-data-breach-2026/) ## **Don't** miss - [Laundry Bear’s new Microsoft Exchange attack triggers on email open (CVE-2026-42897)](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/30/cve-2026-42897-mic

Helpnetsecurity 4 days, 22 hours ago

groundcover raises $100 million as AI strains legacy cloud-monitoring tools

# groundcover raises $100 million as AI strains legacy cloud-monitoring tools ## The Israeli startup says it tripled recurring revenue and signed several seven-figure contracts as companies struggle to monitor increasingly complex cloud systems and AI agents without sending sensitive operational data to outside platforms [AI agents](https://www.ynetnews.com/topics/AI_agents) # p.ynet.co.il is blocked The round comes as companies deploy growing numbers of AI agents and automated systems, generating far more logs, metrics and traces from production environments. CEO and co-founder Shahar Azulay said the company plans to use the funding to deepen the role of AI agents in production operations. The funding reflects a broader investor push into the infrastructure supporting AI adoption.

Ynetnews 5 days, 1 hour ago

How agents can show up in AI tools like ChatGPT, Grok and Perplexity

As an agent, if you're not showing up as an authority on AI platforms, then you're losing opportunities to those who do.

Chicagoagentmagazine 5 days, 1 hour ago

Amazon Puts AI Agents to Work as Sales Top $200 Billion

# Amazon Puts AI Agents to Work as Sales Top $200 Billion By[PYMNTS](https://www.pymnts.com/author/pymnts/) | July 30, 2026 [Share on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.pymnts.com/amazon/2026/amazon-puts-ai-agents-to-work-as-sales-top-200-billion/&t=Amazon+Puts+AI+Agents+to+Work+as+Sales+Top+%24200+Billion)[Tweet This Post](https://twitter.com/share?text=Amazon+Puts+AI+Agents+to+Work+as+Sales+Top+%24200+Billion%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20-&url=https://www.pymnts.com/amazon/2026/amazon-puts-ai-agents-to-work-as-sales-top-200-billion/)[Share on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.pymnts.com/amazon/2026/amazon-puts-ai-agents-to-work-as-sales-top-200-billion/&title=Amazon+Puts+AI+Agents+to+Work+as+Sales+Top+%24200+Billion&summary=&source=)[Share via Email](mailto:?subject=Amazon%20Puts%20AI%20Agents%20to%20Work%20as%20Sales%20Top%20$200%20Billion&BODY=I%20found%20this%20article%20interesting%20and%20want%20to%20share%20it%20with%20you.%20Check%20it%20out:%20https://www.pymnts.com/amazon/2026/amazon-puts-ai-agents-to-work-as-sales-top-200-billion/) | Listen to ArticleListenPause ## Get the Full Story By the end of Q2, Amazon had AI agents helping people shop, organizing employees’ digital work, supporting contact centers and scanning software for security weaknesses. It’s a new agent that can search email, calendars, files and company systems, then take actions such as scheduling meetings, sending messages, updating customer records and building dashboards. Amazon added autonomous agents that users can create in plain language to complete multistep assignments in the background. Jassy said Amazon sees “a very substantial opportunity” in building agentic applications for customers and AWS. ## Moving to Frontier Models #### Recommended [\ \ Amazon Puts AI Agents to Work as

Pymnts 5 days, 1 hour ago

Cybercriminals Are Leveraging Autonomous AI Offensive Security Agents

- Cybercriminals Are Leveraging Autonomous AI Offensive Security Agents ## Cybercriminals Are Leveraging Autonomous AI Offensive Security Agents __[Pierluigi Paganini](https://securityaffairs.com/author/paganinip)__ July 30, 2026

Securityaffairs 5 days, 2 hours ago

Hush Security Raises $30 Million Series A To Govern Enterprise AI Agent Identities

Hush Security Raises $30 Million Series A To Govern Enterprise AI Agent Identities Hush Security has raised $30 million in Series A funding to expand its identity security platform for AI agents and other non-human users of enterprise systems. The financing brings Hush’s total capital raised to $41 million less than a year after the company emerged from stealth. It will use the funding to expand engineering and sales, particularly in the United States, deepen integrations with enterprise identity and access management systems and establish additional corporate partnerships.

Pulse2 5 days, 2 hours ago

Anthropic's AI hacked three companies during tests, highlighting growing security risks

SAN FRANCISCO, July 30 (Reuters) - Anthropic said on Thursday some of its Claude AI models had hacked into the systems of three companies during cybersecurity tests, a disclosure that comes days after ​rival OpenAI revealed that one of its AI agents went on a rogue attack. San Francisco-based Anthropic said in a blog post it identified the incidents after reviewing 141,006 test sessions, a ​process it launched after OpenAI [said](https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-says-ai-models-went-rogue-during-testing-triggering-unprecedented-breach-2026-07-21/) last week that an autonomous agent powered by its AI models triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of startup Hugging ⁠Face. ## OPENAI'S ALTMAN IN TALKS WITH SENATORS, WHITE HOUSE Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, which operates a competing AI lab, responded to the news on X ​by saying "this will happen frequently ⁠as AI becomes smarter and more agentic," referring to computer programs or "agents" that act with limited human intervention. The OpenAI agent that broke into Hugging Face, a platform used by developers to host and collaborate on AI models, went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn't catch until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was informed, [Reuters has previously reported](https://www.reuters.com/business/its-ai-agent-spent-days-hacking-company-sources-say-openai-did-not-notice-week-2026-07-24/).

Reuters 5 days, 3 hours ago

Paper Raises $34M Series A From Accel and ICONIQ to Challenge Figma

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Cmswire 5 days, 3 hours ago

Balancing speed and safety: A control framework for AI coding agents

by Daniel Begimher and Danny Cortegaca on 30 JUL 2026 in Advanced (300), Artificial Intelligence, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, Best Practices,...

Aws 5 days, 4 hours ago

MoonPay Lets AI Agents Transact with PayBox

MoonPay launched PayBox, enabling ChatGPT and Claude users to authorize AI agents to make purchases, trade tokens, interact with DeFi, and move assets using...

Finovate 5 days, 5 hours ago

Four Ways to Deploy More Secure AI Agents | NVIDIA Technical Blog

# Four Ways to Deploy More Secure AI Agents Jul 30, 2026 Over the past six months, the NVIDIA AI Red Team has assessed multiple AI agents—from simple interactive coding tools to always-on autonomous digital assistants. ## Tags [Agentic AI / Generative AI](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/category/generative-ai/) | [Trustworthy AI / Cybersecurity](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/category/cybersecurity/) | [General](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/recent-posts/?industry=General) | [Intermediate Technical](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/recent-posts/?learning_levels=Intermediate+Technical) | [Deep dive](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/recent-posts/?content_types=Deep+dive) | [AI Agent](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/tag/ai-agent/) | [AI Red Team](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/tag/ai-red-team/)

Developer 5 days, 5 hours ago

Encore AI Raises $30 Million to Expand Enterprise AI Platform

# Encore AI Raises $30 Million to Expand Enterprise AI Platform Agentic customer interaction platform [Encore AI](https://www.gainencore.ai/) has raised $30 million in new funding. ## Get the Full Story In other agentic AI news, recent PYMNTS Intelligence research produced in collaboration with [Visa Acceptance Solutions](https://www.visaacceptance.com/en-us.html) shows that many consumers are willing to let AI agents search across merchants when shopping online. They will also let agents manage loyalty programs and surface deals,” PYMNTS wrote earlier this month, referencing [“The Global Digital Shopping Index: The Agentic Commerce Deep Dive.”](https://www.pymnts.com/study/global-digital-shopping-index-agentic-commerce-deep-dive/) #### Recommended See More In:[Agentic AI](https://www.pymnts.com/tag/agentic-ai/), [AI Agents](https://www.pymnts.com/tag/ai-agents/), [AI funding](https://www.pymnts.com/tag/ai-funding/), [enterprise AI](https://www.pymnts.com/tag/enterprise-ai/), [funding](https://www.pymnts.com/tag/funding/), [News](https://www.pymnts.com/tag/news/), [PYMNTS News](https://www.pymnts.com/tag/pymnts-news/), [What's Hot](https://www.pymnts.com/tag/whats-hot/) #### Featured News [AI Makes Strong Payments Enterprises Stronger](https://www.pymnts.com/opinion/2026/agentic-payments-start-with-the-right-foundation/)

Pymnts 5 days, 6 hours ago

Natural Secures $30M Series A to Build Payments Infrastructure for AI Agents

Natural has raised a $30 million Series A led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner, with continued backing from existing investors, bringing the company's total.

Theaiinsider 5 days, 7 hours ago

When AI Becomes the Attacker: Understanding Autonomous Offensive Security Agents

# When AI Becomes the Attacker: Understanding Autonomous Offensive Security Agents ### Deep Dive: Leading AI Red-Team Tools #### 2. Strix — The Open-Source “Find and Fix” Pentest Agent Strix markets itself as “autonomous AI hackers that find and fix your app’s vulnerabilities.” #### 6. PentAGI — Autonomous Execution Agent **Type:** Open-source autonomous agent

Resecurity 5 days, 8 hours ago

Rogue OpenAI agent hit a second company during hacking spree

# Rogue OpenAI agent hit a second company during hacking spree [TECH & STARTUP](https://www.thedailystar.net/news/tech-startup) Tech & Startup Desk  Illustration: Tech & Startup Desk The autonomous AI agent that escaped OpenAI’s control and hacked Hugging Face earlier this month also compromised a customer account on the platform of New York-based Modal Labs, making it the second confirmed victim of the model’s days-long rampage, according to a Modal executive and two other sources familiar with the matter, as reported by Reuters. A timeline published by Hugging Face on Tuesday confirmed that the agent first breached a sandbox hosted on an unnamed third-party provider before using it as a launchpad, according to the Reuters report. OpenAI, also updating its account on Tuesday, disclosed that the agent broke into four accounts across four separate services. The company did not name those services, but a person familiar with the matter identified Modal as one. The company added that it has since “deactivated, encrypted, and restricted” the tested AI model from research access.

Thedailystar 5 days, 8 hours ago

Israeli cyber startup raises $113m to secure and control autonomous AI agents

Team at AI security startup Onyx Security. Israeli cyber startup Onyx Security announced on Thursday that it has nabbed $113 million in funding to build a platform that lets humans stay in control, as advanced autonomous systems and smart artificial intelligence agents ramp up in the workplace. To date, the startup has raised $153 million. Bar Kogan and Elbaz said they teamed up to develop a platform to secure and control AI agents, as advanced AI systems are adopted faster than traditional enterprise security systems can keep up. The startup said its technology secures more than 1.1 million agents for customers. - [AI agents](https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/ai-agents/)

Timesofisrael 5 days, 8 hours ago

Okta agrees to acquire Permiso Security to protect AI agents

# Okta agrees to acquire Permiso Security to protect AI agents ## Deal context and its market impact Recently, the startup expanded its platform to monitor AI agents and other machine identifiers. In April, the startup also introduced SandyClaw, a platform for analyzing AI-agent skills in a sandbox to detect malicious behavior before deployment.

Mezha 5 days, 9 hours ago

Silicon Valley’s AI Giants Go Shopping Off Their Turf

# Silicon Valley’s AI Giants Go Shopping Off Their Turf ## **Cognition Bought a Texting Agent** The two deals landed within days of each other. [Cognition](https://cognition.com/), the startup behind autonomous coding agent [Devin](https://devin.ai/), [announced](https://cognition.com/blog/interaction) July 23 that it acquired [Poke](https://poke.com/), an AI agent that lives inside text messages and talks less like software and more like a friend who won’t stop checking in on you. Poke exchanged more than 100 million messages in its first three months and is the only AI agent [Apple](https://www.apple.com/) has approved to run natively inside [Messages](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/messages/id1146560473), Cognition said in its announcement. “It’s proactive, it knows you, and it’s fun to talk to,” Cognition Co-Founder [Scott Wu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-wu-8b94ab96/) said in the announcement. Financial terms weren’t disclosed, but TechCrunch [reported](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/why-cognition-bought-poke-ai-personality-is-becoming-a-competitive-advantage/) Friday (July 24) that the deal landed in the “low nine figures.” ## **OpenAI Bought a Medical Records Startup** Cognition builds agents to write code and bought one that writes texts. #### Featured News [AI Makes Strong Payments Enterprises Stronger](https://www.pymnts.com/opinion/2026/agentic-payments-start-with-the-right-foundation/)

Pymnts 5 days, 9 hours ago

Okta buys identity threat startup Permiso for roughly $200 million as AI agents become enterprise security's newest weak spot

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Startupfortune 5 days, 9 hours ago

Can Legacy Data Security Survive the Velocity of Autonomous AI Agents?

# Can Legacy Data Security Survive the Velocity of Autonomous AI Agents?  ## What Is Covered in This Article: **The News:** On July 30, Bedrock Data announced Agent DLP, a runtime data loss prevention tool engineered specifically for autonomous AI agents and integrated directly into the company’s ArgusAI suite. ## Can Legacy Data Security Survive the Velocity of Autonomous AI Agents? An agent inherits a massive blast radius on day one, transforming a highly useful automation tool into a severe compliance liability. They watch the front door while remaining entirely oblivious to what the agent is doing with the data inside the house. ## What to Watch: ### Author Information #### [MinIO Launches AIStor Memory for Agentic AI’s Durable Context Layer](https://futurumgroup.com/insights/minio-launches-aistor-memory-for-agentic-ais-durable-context-layer/) Alastair Cooke, analyst at Futurum, shares insights on MinIO's AIStor Memory launch, which folds agent memory, workspace, and secrets into a single enterprise-controlled data type, and what it signals about...

Futurumgroup 5 days, 10 hours ago

Onyx raises $113m to keep humans in control of AI agents

 **[Onyx](https://www.onyx.security/), a security company behind the Secure AI Control Plane, has closed a $113m Series B round to help enterprises govern the growing number of AI agents operating inside their organisations.** The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with backing from Cyberstarts, TCV, Conviction, FirstMark, Vintage Investment Partners, QuantumLight and G Squared. ### [Straiker raises $64m to lock down the AI agent era](https://fintech.global/2026/06/30/straiker-raises-64m-to-lock-down-the-ai-agent-era/) June 30, 2026 [AddToAny](https://www.addtoany.com/) [More…](https://fintech.global/2026/07/30/onyx-raises-113m-to-keep-humans-in-control-of-ai-agents/#addtoany)

Fintech 5 days, 10 hours ago

Hush Security says the AI security problem has shifted from protecting models to governing identities as autonomous agents spread

The company, which [earlier this week announced a $30 million Series A](https://www.hush.security/resources/hush-security-raises-30m-to-close-the-ai-agent-governance-gap-with-akamai-joining-as-strategic-investor/?utm_source=Rounda&utm_medium=LI&utm_campaign=Aug&utm_id=PR) round led by returning investors Battery Ventures and YL Ventures with Akamai Technologies joining as a strategic investor, argues that organizations are rapidly moving beyond experimenting with generative AI assistants and into deploying autonomous software agents that require an entirely different security model. This is a pertinent and urgent question ever since [Hugging Face revealed in mid-July it was hacked by an autonomous AI agent](https://venturebeat.com/security/openais-models-broke-containment-and-cyberattacked-hugging-face-what-enterprises-need-to-know), later identified as an OpenAI test agent running internally that escaped its secure sandbox, powered in part by an unreleased model. ## More The announcement, made from the company's no-headquarters base in Bozeman, Montana, is Snowflake's most aggressive move yet to position itself not merely as the place where enterprise data lives, but as the control plane that decides what AI agents are allowed to do with it. The company announced [MAI-Cyber-1-Flash](https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-cyber-1-flash-inside-mdash/), a compact security model developed in-house by its [Microsoft AI (MAI)](https://microsoft.ai/) division, embedded inside [MDASH](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/05/12/defense-at-ai-speed-microsofts-new-multi-model-agentic-security-system-tops-leading-industry-benchmark/), Microsoft's multi-agent harness for finding and fixing software vulnerabilities. [![An AI agent breached Langflow twice, then encrypted model checkpoints that cost up to $500,000 to rebuild](https://venturebeat.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.ctfassets.net%2Fjdtwqhzvc2n1%2F7dthRFBhgUb9AVWD9OtiiK%2F75a3bffbb7ad46560bf

Venturebeat 5 days, 10 hours ago

Okta buys AI security startup Permiso — source says for about $200M

# Okta buys AI security startup Permiso — source says for about $200M Okta on Thursday [agreed to acquire](https://www.okta.com/newsroom/press-releases/okta-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-permiso-security/) AI identity security startup [Permiso Security](https://permiso.io/), betting that demand for protecting AI agents and other machine identities will grow as enterprises deploy autonomous software across their operations. More recently, the startup has expanded its platform to monitor AI agents and other machine identities. In April, the startup also [introduced SandyClaw](https://permiso.io/blog/introducing-sandyclaw-dynamic-sandbox-ai-agent-skills), a platform designed to analyze AI agent skills in a sandboxed environment to identify malicious behavior before they are deployed. [AI](https://techcrunch.com/category/artificial-intelligence/), [AI agents](https://techcrunch.com/tag/ai-agents/), [Exclusive](https://techcrunch.com/tag/exclusive/), [Okta](https://techcrunch.com/tag/okta/), [Permiso](https://techcrunch.com/tag/permiso/), [Security](https://techcrunch.com/category/security/), [Startups](https://techcrunch.com/category/startups/), [United States](https://techcrunch.com/region/north-america/united-states/)

Techcrunch 5 days, 10 hours ago

Shadow AI, leadership resistance make AI governance tough for worried CISOs

# Shadow AI, leadership resistance make AI governance tough for worried CISOs  A billboard advertising an agentic AI tool is displayed in San Francisco on June 30, 2026. ### **Dive Brief:** - AI agents remain a major cybersecurity risk for businesses, with 81% of CISOs worrying that their AI systems aren’t properly governed, according to [a report Okta published on Wednesday](https://www.okta.com/newsroom/articles/global-ciso-insights-2026/). ## Company Announcements [Realm Security Debuts Detection Integrity to Prove that Reducing SIEM Log Volume Never Breaks …\ \ \ From Realm.Security\ \ July 28, 2026\ \ ](https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/press-release/20260728-realm-security-debuts-detection-integrity-to-prove-that-reducing-siem-log-v-1/) [AppViewX Arms Enterprise CLM Teams for Post-Quantum Migration and AI Adoption in Latest Produc…\ \ \ From AppViewX\ \ July 22, 2026\ \ ](https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/press-release/20260721-appviewx-arms-enterprise-clm-teams-for-post-quantum-migration-and-ai-adopti/) [Fig Expands SecOps Engineering Lifecycle as Security Teams Seek More Resilient Infrastructure\ \ \ From TVC Analyst Editorial Team\ \ July 21, 2026](https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/press-release/20260721-fig-expands-secops-engineering-lifecycle-as-security-teams-seek-more-resili-1/) [Upwind Research Shows Attackers Are Expanding Beyond Single npm Packages t

Cybersecuritydive 5 days, 10 hours ago

AI Agents Are Acting Like Employees. Who Is Accountable?

# AI Agents Are Acting Like Employees. Who Is Accountable? Jul 30, 2026, 12:00pm EDT 0:00 / 6:36 AI Agents Are Acting Like Employees. ## Summary TOPSHOT - A robot using artificial intelligence is displayed at a stand during the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, on May 30, 2024.

Forbes 5 days, 10 hours ago

PointGuard AI Advances Enterprise Agentic AI Security with Agent Mission Control

# PointGuard AI Advances Enterprise Agentic AI Security with Agent Mission Control The recent OpenAI autonomous agent incident, in which an AI agent escaped its testing environment, hacked Hugging Face, and compromised additional third-party services, demonstrates how quickly autonomous systems can move beyond their intended boundaries.

Kitsapsun 5 days, 11 hours ago

Exclusive: Upwind adds context scanning for AI agents as AI DR hits general availability

### Exclusive: Upwind adds context scanning for AI agents as AI DR hits general availability Cloud security startup [Upwind Security Inc.](https://www.upwind.io/) today unveiled AI Agent Context Scanner, which inspects the instructions, tools and connections feeding artificial intelligence agents before those agents act on them. Upwind is a venture capital-backed startup that raised $250 million [in January](https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/26/cloud-security-startup-upwind-raises-250m-funding-round/) in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, at a $1.5 billion valuation. # Are you AWS customer?  Support SiliconANGLE Financially by buying your AWS services from our Marketplace portal page and links. ##### LATEST STORIES [](https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/30/polyai-launches-new-real-time-voice-conversation-model-make-ai-driven-calls-human/) [](https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/30/polyai-launches-new-real-time-voice-conversation-model-make-ai-driven-calls-human/)

Siliconangle 5 days, 12 hours ago

New details in the OpenAI Hugging Face hack show how far agents will go: 'It's now remarkably easy'

## Read more CNBC tech news Hugging Face said the breach marked the first time it had handled a cyber event that was “driven, end to end, by an [autonomous AI agent system](https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026).”

Cnbc 5 days, 13 hours ago

Onyx Security Raises $113 Million to Control AI Agents in the Enterprise

The Series B funding round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Cyberstarts, TCV, Conviction, FirstMark, Vintage, QuantumLight, and G Squared. #### Related Content [](https://www.securityweek.com/databahn-raises-40-million-for-agentic-data-pipeline-management/) ### Cybersecurity Funding The company will accelerate investments in R&D and product innovation to expand its agentic data control plane. The company will invest in accelerating the development and adoption of its agentic platform.

Securityweek 5 days, 14 hours ago