Brex released its summer fastest-growing vendors list, reporting that infrastructure companies dominated, indicating that the real AI growth is in the underlying technology rather than applications.…
SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin revealed on The Agents podcast that his company canceled Notion after 7 years because their AI agent, 10K, took over the staff meeting function, leaving Notion with no rema…
Fintechs including Stripe, Ramp, and Brex are issuing virtual cards with per-transaction and per-merchant-category limits designed for AI agents, repurposing authorization holds as real-time circuit b…
Comedians Harris Alterman and Dave Ross installed satirical subway advertisements in New York City mocking the formulaic copy of AI startups, and their stunt videos garnered more than 7.5 million view…
Mercury, a Silicon Valley banking solution, launched AI agent cards, virtual credit cards that let businesses delegate and automate purchasing decisions, as part of an expanded spend management offeri…
Brex open-sourced CrabTrap, an HTTP/HTTPS proxy that monitors AI agents' network traffic to enforce governance, on April 21, 2026, and it has gained over 700 GitHub stars. The tool uses static rules f…
Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent, acquired TierZero on July 20, 2026, marking the first of three acquisitions announced in a single week, to extend Devin from writing software into…
Great Question, a Y Combinator W21-backed AI customer research platform, is hiring a Senior Demand Gen Manager to own the sales qualified lead (SQL) number and build a demand engine across organic sea…
Brex has open-sourced CrabTrap, an HTTP proxy that intercepts AI agent network traffic and uses an LLM judge to approve or deny requests in real time, designed to secure autonomous agents with access …
Sazabi, an AI-native observability startup founded by former Brex and Crunchbase engineer Sherwood Callaway, raised an $8 million seed round co-led by J2 Ventures, Village Global, and Y Combinator. Th…
AI agents rely on external systems to manage memory because large language models are stateless and process only the text in their context window per call. Developers must engineer memory by inserting…
AI observability startup Sazabi raised $8 million in a seed round led by J2 Ventures, Village Global, and Y Combinator. The San Francisco-based company, founded by former Brex engineer Sherwood Callaw…
Estonian accounting firms report that small and medium-sized businesses with annual revenue below €1M are unwilling to pay for AI financial tools, while those above that threshold see value. The findi…
1Password has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SaaS Management Platforms. The company's SaaS Manager provides IT teams with visibility into unapproved AI use and shadow IT, a…
Partnership between Y Combinator and Coinbase to fund startups building on blockchain technology, marking what they call "Fintech 3.0"—a new era of financial infrastructure using code for instant, glo…