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Startup Watch

Instinct raises $250M at $2.5B for an agent that acts for you

Index Ventures and Benchmark led a $250 million Series B at a $2.5 billion valuation. Security researchers are raising alarms about the assistant's permissions.

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Startup Watch

Rillet hits a $1B valuation two years after leaving stealth

AI-native ERP startup Rillet raised a $100M Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1B valuation - its third round in 14 months, closed in under 48 hours, with 600+ customers.

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Dev Stack

Cloudflare's Kitesurf is a browser built for AI agents, not people

Cloudflare built Kitesurf, an agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Workers - 3-7x lighter than Chromium on CPU and memory, free in beta, Playwright-compatible.

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AI & LLMs

Researchers document a near-autonomous AI-agent attack on Taiwan

Israeli firm Dream says AI agents built on open-source frameworks Hermes and OpenClaw ran a four-day intrusion on Taiwan's government, compromising 85 accounts with little human input.

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Dev Stack

Cloudflare Gateway can now detect and block MCP traffic

Cloudflare Gateway now identifies Model Context Protocol traffic on the wire with a beta is_mcp selector, letting enterprises block AI-agent connections that skip approved portals.

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