Patronus AI closed a $50M Series B led by Greenfield Partners to scale its Digital World Models simulation environments for training and evaluating long-horizon AI agents. Total funding is now $70M.

Stripe and AWS detailed a production compliance agent system that reduced review handling time by 26 percent and now runs more than 100 agents, with humans in the loop.

Diagrid shipped Dapr 1.18 with a feature called Verifiable Execution. The release gives every Dapr workflow a signed execution history that auditors and downstream systems can verify.

Gemini 3.5 Flash now ships with computer use, putting browser and desktop control into the default tier. Same week, Google warned the open web is full of agent traps, and one researcher reports a real money loss.

A Spacelift survey of 406 IT and platform leaders finds most teams deploy AI-generated infrastructure code with minimal or no review, and nearly every organization has already had an AI-caused infrastructure incident.

Forrester's Identiverse 2026 recap argues that agent identity is the new IAM front. Cser and Cairns report 75 to 85 percent agent adoption and call agent authorization the new paradigm shift.

Oasis Security Research disclosed CVE-2026-41613, a VS Code MCP install flow that hid five fields from the preview dialog. The fix is in 1.119.1, and the install link is still the most common attack path.

Assort Health has raised a $120M Series C led by Menlo Ventures at a $1.2B valuation. The voice AI agent platform for healthcare patient access has now raised $222M since launching in November 2023.

OpenAI and Broadcom on Wednesday unveiled Jalapeño, the first custom AI inference chip in a long-term partnership. The ASIC ships to data centers by end of 2026 and targets large language model inference at scale.