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Natural raised $30 million to build wallets, payments and controls for autonomous software, exposing the financial infrastructure that agentic commerce still lacks.
Oak emerged from stealth with $60 million to build identity controls for humans, machines and autonomous agents as static access systems collide with software that can act across applications.
Prime Intellect raised $130 million at a $1 billion valuation to make advanced model training and reinforcement learning available to companies that want specialized internal agents.
Anthropic’s newest Sonnet model approaches the agentic performance of its more expensive Opus tier while becoming the default for free and paid individual users.
