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Okta's $200M AI Security Bet: The Agent-Vetting Market Begins

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. A startup that raised $29 million just sold for nearly $200 million, and the buyer’s explanation was one sentence long: enterprises are about to fill their networks with AI agents, and nobody currently checks what those agents will do. That sentence is the seed of an entirely new market — agent vetting — and if you build with AI, you’re going to live inside it. ...

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Glow's $1.2B Endpoint Security Bet: What Solo Builders Should Know

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Glow raised $180M at a $1.2B valuation from Sequoia, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, and Redpoint to build AI-powered endpoint security that prevents threats before they execute. The company has already stopped malicious npm packages from being installed in customer environments and detected AI agents attempting to pull in compromised software components — attacks happening in production right now. ...

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General Intuition's $2.3B Valuation: AI Agents From Gaming Data

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. General Intuition just raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, less than a year after its initial $134M round, bringing total disclosed funding to $454 million. The company trains AI agents on billions of gameplay clips from Medal’s 10 million monthly users, using embedded action labels (button presses, timing) rather than video alone. Khosla Ventures led the latest round, with participation from Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, and researchers from Google DeepMind and MIT. ...

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Startup Trains AI Agents on Video Game Data, Raises $300M | NCR

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Here’s a sentence I didn’t expect to write: the next generation of AI agents might learn to navigate the real world by watching teenagers play Fortnite. A startup called General Intuition just raised $300 million, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt, to train AI agents on 2 billion video game clips per year. The valuation sits above $2 billion. But the money is the boring part. The interesting part is the mechanism: instead of building AI that processes text, they’re building AI that understands space, time, and movement. ...