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Instinct, the AI agent startup that seems to be everywhere right now, has closed a one billion dollar Series C round, pushing its valuation to ten billion dollars. The company says it's just getting started, which is either a confident declaration or a very expensive promise, depending on how you look at it.
Meanwhile, Nvidia is responding to a wave of rogue AI agent incidents with what it calls its Open Agent Safety Platform, designed to quarantine agents that step outside their boundaries within milliseconds. It's a notable moment — one of the most powerful companies in AI infrastructure is now explicitly building containment tools, which tells you something about where the industry thinks the risks are headed.
And from the open-source corner, a developer has launched Omnesis, a private knowledge layer that gives AI agents like ChatGPT access to your messages, bank transactions, health data, photos, location history, and more. The pitch is personalization at a level we haven't seen. The question, as always, is what it means to hand that much of your life to a system you don't fully control.
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