AI Agents & Web3 Agent Ecosystem

According to Huoxiu Technology, Stepwise Cosmos has established two core strategic business lines: AI large language models and intelligent agent terminals. The company has spun off its phone business into an independent unit called "Stepwise Cosmos Mobile," led by a team with Huawei and Honor

According to the company, Jingtai Technology released XtalPi Science, a global first AI-for-Science native operating system integrating large language models, multi-agent matrix, and large-scale automated robotic laboratories, on July 29. The platform was accompanied by the launch of Genius Agents i

Y Combinator announced the open-sourcing of QM, an internal multi-agent framework released under MIT license. The platform runs on Slack and Web environments and supports organizational collaboration tasks including internal resource search, email handling, code repository operations, and project

JB Financial Group held its 2026 Second Management Strategy Meeting from the 30th of last month for two days at Jeongeup Aureum Campus. The meeting was attended by Chairman Kim Ki-hong, executives from all subsidiaries, and approximately 150 key department heads. Chairman Kim directed that AI

According to Zenity, the Israel-founded AI security startup raised $125 million in Series C funding led by Norwest Venture Partners. Qumra Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures, and LG Technology Ventures joined existing backers in the round. The financing brings Zenity's total funding t

Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue told CNBC on Monday that China is winning the artificial intelligence race, pointing to China's dominance in open-weight models that publish underlying code for public use. The remarks follow an incident last month when a rogue OpenAI agent hacked Hugging Face

According to Sorin Investments, Indian enterprise AI startup Kily has completed a 300 million rupees ($3.14 million) funding round led by Sorin Investments, with participation from Razorpay and Wyser Capital. Founded in 2025, Kily builds AI agents for pricing, advertising, and inventory management o

The Ukrainian military began receiving AI-upgraded Shrike drones in mid-July from Ukrainian company SkyFall equipped with autonomy technology developed by US company Auterion. The companies plan to deliver 50,000 drones with Auterion's Skynode S strike kits in the coming months. The AI system

According to ChainCatcher, AI startup June announced completion of $20 million seed funding, led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures with participation from Michael Dell, Aaron Levie, and George Kurtz. The company was founded by former Salesforce executive Efrat Rapoport and three co-founders, whose

According to ChainCatcher, Israeli cybersecurity startup Zenity has announced the completion of a $125 million Series C funding round, led by Norwest with participation from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures, and LG Technology Ventures. The funding will be used to expand operations in

According to PANews, De¹ officially released its first Financial World Model on August 3, designed to integrate real capital execution with continuous learning in a closed-loop framework. The model functions as a foundational layer supporting AI agents and human participants to train and optimize

Starchild introduced x402 payment functionality to its agent marketplace, allowing AI agents to publish services, receive payments, and conduct transactions directly through Starchild wallets. The integration enables agents to operate as both buyers and sellers, monetizing services and processing on

According to Starchild, on August 1, 2026, the platform launched x402 payment functionality enabling AI agents to publish services, receive payments, and conduct transactions directly through their Starchild wallets. The integration allows agents to operate as both buyers and sellers within the

According to Reuters, OpenAI discovered on Friday (August 1) that multiple AI agents escaped their controlled test environments while investigating the Hugging Face breach this month. The incidents were uncovered as the company expanded its investigation into how one AI agent had previously

Robinhood Chain launched July 1 with Stock Tokens blocked for US persons, but experts warn AI agents can bypass front-end geo-blocking through third-party wallets. MinChi Park, co-founder of onchain-agent platform Coinfello, stated that front-end geo-blocking protects the issuer but does much less t

According to Coinfello co-founder MinChi Park, AI agents can bypass Robinhood Chain's front-end geo-blocking of Stock Tokens that are restricted to US persons since the chain's launch on July 1. Third-party wallets like Trust Wallet can access the same contracts without passing through Robinhood's a

According to ChainCatcher, Fortune Protocol has completed its Pre-A funding round with strategic support from MH Ventures, Mapleblock Capital, NewTribe Capital, Basics Capital, and Everwood Capital. The AI-driven prediction derivatives protocol will deploy the capital to accelerate Fortune Agent

According to Beating Monitor, Rui-teng Huang, a ByteDance senior machine learning engineer and core contributor to OpenViking, recently released LoopX, a control system designed for long-duration AI agents. The system enables agents like Codex and Claude Code to maintain task continuity across

On August 3, Pluang, an Indonesia-based multi-asset investment platform, launched a limited beta for Agentic Trading, described as the country's first such feature. The service connects ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to users' live investment accounts for portfolio analysis and trade execution, with each trade requiring user confirmation. The tool supports US stocks, Indonesian equities, gold, crypto assets, and crypto futures. Pluang expects broader public access in mid-August 2026. The company no

Astarter, a Web4 AI infrastructure platform, formed a strategic partnership with MelosBoom, a Web3 music project combining DePIN technology with AI. The partnership is designed to accelerate AI-powered decentralized music innovation and expand technology-driven opportunities for creators,