AI agents

DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents (opens techcrunch.com)

DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers.

Meta’s Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn’t Yet (opens wired.com)

Companies have spent weeks reassuring investors that Muse and other AI agents are more of an opportunity than a threat.

Hue: Simulations for AI agents (opens ycombinator.com)

Hue lets teams test an AI agent in stateful clones of the apps it works in.

Launch HN: Simantic (YC F26) – Firmware Simulation for AI Agents (opens news.ycombinator.com)

Simantic, founded by former firmware engineers from Neuralink and Tesla, builds a simulation layer so engineers and AI agents can test firmware without hardware.

Composal: A swarm of agents that tests your product like real users (opens ycombinator.com)

A swarm of agents that tests a product the way real users would, to catch bugs before users do.

Andy Jassy says outside AI shopping agents are "still not great, nor more convenient than coming to a retailer directly" (opens fortune.com)

On Amazon's earnings call, Andy Jassy says outside AI shopping agents are “still not great, nor more convenient than coming to a retailer directly” — Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy told investors Thursday not to worry about bots invading its online store and rendering it useless.

Reflex raises $14M to help enterprises replace generic third-party software with custom business apps (opens siliconangle.com)

Reflex uses AI agents to build, deploy and maintain custom business software that replaces generic third-party tools.

Serval raises $150M at $3B valuation to bring its automation agents beyond IT (opens siliconangle.com)

Serval raised at a $3 billion valuation to take its automation agents from IT into more departments.

Crux Labs raises over $6M to improve enterprise agents with human judgment (opens siliconangle.com)

Crux Labs turns enterprise judgment into continuous improvement for AI agents.

Agent identity startup Mintive lands Cowboy Ventures, Coatue, angels Jeff Dean, Andrej Karpathy (opens techcrunch.com)

Mintive's platform helps IT teams control enterprise AI agents.

Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents (opens github.blog)

See how a record year of growth reached every industry, every field, and every kind of builder in the 2026 Octoverse report.

Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments (opens surgehq.ai)

Faraday: company-specific AI and infrastructure that run manufacturing workflows end to end (opens ycombinator.com)

Company Specific AI for Manufacturers

GrayPass: The most dangerous actions happen after login. (opens ycombinator.com)

We help your company stop unauthorized people, bots, and AI agents before they move money, export data, or change permissions.

The Agent SDK (opens cursor.com)

Ploid | People data infrastructure for AI agents and software (opens ycombinator.com)

Search, enrich, and resolve identities across 2B+ people through one API.

Circuit Mind lands $25M and puts AI agents to work checking circuit board schematics (opens siliconangle.com)

The British startup uses AI agents to check circuit board schematics and will extend the platform across more of the hardware design process.

As AI agents reshape the web, Google opens Gemini and Search to more apps (opens techcrunch.com)

A new developer platform will let businesses bring their services to Google's AI experiences, potentially changing how consumers discover and use apps.

OpenAI and ServiceNow expand partnership across enterprise workflows (opens openai.com)

OpenAI and ServiceNow expand their partnership to bring OpenAI models and agents into ServiceNow and ServiceNow workflows into ChatGPT and Codex.

OpenAI expands partnership with Oracle to bring its apps to ChatGPT (opens openai.com)

OpenAI and Oracle are expanding their partnership to bring business applications and AI agents into ChatGPT and power new Oracle offerings.

Guidewire buys Hyperexponential for $1.7B in cash (opens techcrunch.com)

Guidewire is paying cash for the insurance pricing startup; the deal is expected to close next year.

Infisical, which helps companies use AI agents without handing over their private credentials, raised a $40M Series B led by Elad Gil at a $600M valuation (opens forbes.com)

Infisical keeps companies' private credentials away from AI agents; customers include Airbus and Volkswagen. Elad Gil led the round at a $600M valuation.

Seattle startup Avante raises $30M to bring AI agents to corporate benefits teams (opens geekwire.com)

Avante says bookings grew nearly fivefold over the past year.

Retell uses OpenAI models to help power 100M monthly calls (opens openai.com)

OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra tops Retell's voice-agent benchmark and Codex helps it reach a $1.6M annual revenue run rate per employee.

How Anthropic ships Claude with Claude: Separating the Brain from the Hands (opens latent.space)

Katelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang on Opus 5.5, the Claude Platform, and the engineering behind AI agents.

An agent got stuck in a loop and burned $4,700 of a customer's budget overnight (opens reddit.com)

We run a small b2b tool with a lean team of 3, customers run agents on our infra, we pay the model bill and then charge them monthly for usage. Thursday ended normally but Friday morning the openai dashboard had a weird outlier spike.

GPT-6.1 Terra (opens openai.com)

The successor to GPT-5.6 Terra, OpenAI's middle-tier model, costs around 50% less while handling computer-use tasks faster and more accurately.

Rystic: Test your AI agents with local copies of Slack, Stripe, and Google Drive 🧪 (opens ycombinator.com)

Test your agent in a simulated world before unleashing it on the real one.

EveryApp - Make every app open source (opens ycombinator.com)

Every tool your business runs on, built by your agent, owned by you

Former GitHub CEO launches rival platform built for AI coding agents (opens geekwire.com)

Entire's Trails feature replaces the pull request, using AI agents to score each code change.

The $1,000/hour 1-person AI business (opens youtube.com)

Get Your Complete Financial OS at https://startup-ideas-pod.link/brex_SIP I sit down with James Dickerson, the Boring Marketer, who owns Diesel Dudes, a mobile diesel repair business in Charlotte, North Carolina, and spent years running agencies for local businesses.

How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant (opens techcrunch.com)

Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.

AnyAlpha: The agentic trading platform (opens ycombinator.com)

AnyAlpha turns your trading idea into an agent that trades it for you, 24/7.

GatherHQ: An API for how buyers think (built for agents and teams) (opens ycombinator.com)

AI that interviews real people and builds living models agents (and humans) can query.

Let Chaos Reign, and Then Rein In Chaos (opens a16z.news)

Replit and the Agent Habitat

The RealReal won’t let AI agents hog designer clothing (opens theverge.com)

The RealReal, a secondhand luxury fashion consignment retailer, said it's updating its bot defense system, effectively making it harder for AI agents to shop on its site.

Pomerado - The faster, cheaper, and more reliable alternative to browser use (opens ycombinator.com)

YC startup Pomerado connects agents to any website without needing an API, and it is open source.

Outside evaluators found ways OpenAI’s agents could slip past its monitor (opens thenextweb.com)

Safety nonprofits METR and Redwood Research found that OpenAI's agents could have hidden hundreds of their own actions from its monitoring system.

Papermark Data Rooms (opens producthunt.com)

Papermark launched secure data rooms that AI agents can run, live in under 60 seconds.

AgentGrid.io (opens producthunt.com)

Shared workspace for humans and agents