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Okta launches Agent SSO for enterprise AI identity
Okta, Inc. announced general availability of Agent SSO on August 24, 2026, in San Francisco, bringing identity-managed access for AI agents into its core single sign-on offering at no additional cost.
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Relay AI automation startup shuts down, team joins Google Chrome
Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation startup founded in 2021, announced its shutdown on August 17, 2026, with free users losing access on August 15 and paying customers scheduled to lose access on
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Stripe acquires OpenRouter in $8B+ AI infrastructure deal
Stripe announced on August 19, 2026, that it agreed to acquire OpenRouter, a leading AI model gateway platform, in a deal valued at more than $7–8 billion according to sources familiar with the transa
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Socure raises $156M, acquires Fravity for agentic fraud ops
Identity verification startup Socure closed a $156 million Series E extension at a $5.2 billion valuation on August 27, 2026, and separately announced the acquisition of Fravity, an agentic operations
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Wonderful raises $550M at $5B valuation
Enterprise AI software firm Wonderful announced a $550 million funding round on September 2, 2026, more than doubling its valuation to $5 billion. The round was led by Insight Partners and included Sa
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OpenAI expands ChatGPT Ads to 31 European markets
OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT Ads across 31 European countries starting 24 August 2026, while separately introducing ChatGPT for Teens with parental controls. The moves mark the platform's expansion of bo
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Gartner: only 17% of enterprises have deployed AI agents
Gartner's 2026 CIO and Technology Executive Survey, published in August 2026, found that just 17% of organizations have deployed AI agents into production, revealing a wide gap between pilot projects
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Salesforce: Enterprise agent deployments scale to 13 per org
Salesforce's 2026 Agentic Enterprise Index, released August 7, 2026, shows the average number of activated AI agents per organization nearly tripled to 13 from 5 over a 14-month measurement period, wi
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Dynatrace to acquire AI observability startup Arize for $915M
Dynatrace, Inc. signed a definitive agreement on August 13, 2026, to acquire AI observability company Arize AI, Inc. for $915 million in cash and stock, expanding its capabilities to monitor AI agents
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Manus returns as independent company after $2B Meta deal unwinds
Chinese regulators ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion-plus acquisition of AI startup Manus, and the company announced on August 11, 2026, that it would resume independent operations and delete cert
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Cloudways launches managed infrastructure for open-source AI agents
Cloudways, part of DigitalOcean Holdings, announced Managed AI Agents on August 17, 2026, in Broomfield, Colorado, enabling developers to deploy open-source agent runtimes OpenClaw and Hermes in minut
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General Intuition seeks $6B funding for AI agent foundation model
General Intuition, a New York-based startup building a foundation model for generalized AI agents, was reported August 24, 2026 to be in talks to raise funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from
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Cognition targets $40B valuation in new funding talks
Cognition, the maker of AI coding agent Devin, is in early talks with investors for a new funding round that could value the company at least $40 billion, a more than 50% jump from its prior $26 billi
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59.5% of enterprises now run AI agents in production
Caylent's August 2026 survey of 200 senior enterprise leaders reveals that nearly 60% of large organizations in the U.S. and Canada are already operating autonomous AI agents in production environment
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River AI raises $1.1B seed round led by General Catalyst
River AI, the two-month-old startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, closed a $1.1 billion seed/Series A round on August 11, 2026, with General Catalyst and AMP PBC as lead investors. The ro
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Phenom WorkOps brings multi-agent HR automation to enterprises
Phenom announced WorkOps on August 4, 2026, a multi-agent platform for HR workflows that enterprises say has cut hiring timelines by half and returned recruiters 10+ hours per week. The platform coord