Pharos brings AI agents onchain with an Agent Native upgrade for RealFi
Pharos brings AI agents onchain with an Agent Native upgrade for RealFi

Pharos Network, a financial Layer 1 blockchain, announced an Agent Native upgrade on the Korea Blockchain Week keynote stage. It introduces protocol-level infrastructure and AI-powered tools designed to let AI agents operate as native participants in o…

AI gets more interesting when it meets the physical world
AI gets more interesting when it meets the physical world

A transporter pulls up to a construction site outside Riyadh, unloads a delivery of bulk cement, and sends a photo of the delivery note through WhatsApp. For most of BRKZ’s history, that photo was the start of a chain of human work. Someone had to read…

Moca Chain goes live as AI agents need a way to prove who they are
Moca Chain goes live as AI agents need a way to prove who they are

AI agents are no longer just answering questions. They’re shopping, booking trips, signing up for services, and increasingly acting on their users’ behalf. However, when an agent shows up at a website or app, how does the business know who it’s working…

Dodge AI raises $2.65M from Accel and Google to fix enterprise firefighting
Dodge AI raises $2.65M from Accel and Google to fix enterprise firefighting

Enterprise software is never finished. Once SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics goes live, the business keeps changing. Over the years, thousands of company-specific rules get built into the software. When something breaks, the answer is rar…

Soneium and DayOneDream partner to bring K-pop IP onchain
Soneium and DayOneDream partner to bring K-pop IP onchain

Soneium has partnered with DayOneDream to bring K-pop intellectual property onchain as tokenised assets. Sony Group and Startale Group developed the Soneium blockchain. DayOneDream is the entertainment group behind K-pop artists including BTOB, LEE CHA…

HiringCafe lands $6.8M to fix the broken job hunt with AI talent agent
HiringCafe lands $6.8M to fix the broken job hunt with AI talent agent

The modern job search has devolved into a notoriously soul-crushing endeavor. Candidates fire hundreds of resumes into the void. They navigate an endless stream of expired ‘ghost jobs’. And they compete against automated mass-application bots for a fra…

Autoheal raises $7.9M to build a self-improving software factory
Autoheal raises $7.9M to build a self-improving software factory

AI is helping engineering teams ship more code, faster than ever. But that acceleration comes with a growing operational burden. More production incidents to respond to, more security vulnerabilities to remediate, and spiraling token costs to contain. …

From AI endpoints to IAM: 5 cybersecurity CEOs we’ve been watching this summer
From AI endpoints to IAM: 5 cybersecurity CEOs we’ve been watching this summer

Cybersecurity has had no shortage of new companies and ideas this summer. Behind some of the most interesting developments are founders who have spent years working on the problems they are now trying to solve. Their companies span different parts of t…

Why markdown is becoming the default language between search data and AI models
Why markdown is becoming the default language between search data and AI models

Across the infrastructure layer that powers AI applications, Markdown has been emerging as a new standard. More providers are turning to it as the default output for anything a model needs to read, and moving beyond JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) as…

From tunnel to connectivity layer: What GnuVPN says about where VPNs are heading
From tunnel to connectivity layer: What GnuVPN says about where VPNs are heading

For years, consumer VPNs were easy to explain: choose a server, create an encrypted tunnel, and route your traffic through it. The product category was built around a fairly simple idea, and the buying criteria followed the same logic, speed, server co…