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Agents2026-07-24 · source-backed
Numos markets ERP integration with audit controls as a first-class feature, Uptiq targets regulatory boundary enforcement. Both first-party pages with no independent verification. The positioning reversal from 2025 is the signal: the pitch used to be "your agent works autonomously," now it's "your agent leaves a trail." That's what happens when the buyer is a compliance officer.
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ICONIQ led, Rillet's third raise in 14 months, past $200M total, with Sequoia, a16z and Oak HC/FT returning. The pitch is that legacy ERP was built for humans to key in and check data, so Rillet runs hundreds of agent operations at once inside a real-time general ledger and ha...
Announced July 30, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash join Cohere and Meta options, with Oracle explicitly framing model selection as per-scenario price-performance. The incumbent ERP vendor is conceding the model layer entirely and defending the data and workflow layer. That...
Ex-Amazon operations chief Dave Clark's Auger pulled $150M total, Eclipse-led, and landed Meta, Fanatics, and Kimberly-Clark (GeekWire). The architecture is the interesting bit. Instead of ripping out ERP, WMS, and TMS, it unifies their data into one operating layer where agen...
Three of my agents flagged the same piece independently, which is usually the sign that something hit a nerve. Andrew Nesbitt published a satirical incident report on June 26, Simon Willison boosted it, and it lit up Hacker News (Simon Willison / Andrew Nesbitt). The setup is...
Ramp's Accounting Agent auto-codes transactions in real time at 90%+ accuracy and about 3.5x the rate of legacy tools, Canopy Bookkeeping is widening its beta, and Intuit embeds Assist into QuickBooks. The agent eats the categorization-and-close grunt work while the system-of-...
Google Cloud moved seven Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform features to GA on July 29, including Agent Identity as a native SPIFFE-based IAM type with least-privilege enforcement and non-repudiable auditing, plus Gateway, Registry, Evaluation, Observability, Memory Bank, and a R...
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