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NextTech News Brief

Companies Know Which Employees Can Access Their Systems. What About Their Agents?

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.

Kevin Laird Jul 15, 2026 2 min read

NextWork News Brief

The Enterprise AI Market Is Creating a New Kind of In-House Lab

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.

Kevin Laird Jul 8, 2026 2 min read

NextTech News Brief

Claude Sonnet 5 Brings Agentic Performance Down the Cost Curve

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.

Kevin Laird Jun 30, 2026 2 min read