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Business / T-2026-8314

Agentcard gives AI agents their own credit cards

Agentcard issues virtual Visa cards scoped to AI agents. The product signals a shift from agent-as-assistant to agent-as-economic-actor.

SourceBuy by Agentcard

Business / T-2026-7920

Stripe Directory turns payment infrastructure into an agent economy

Stripe launches a public preview of Stripe Directory, a searchable index of businesses on the Stripe network designed for both humans and AI agents.

SourceStripe.Directory

Business / T-2026-9182

Conduit wants to be the wiring harness for AI agents

Conduit launches a managed routing layer to solve tool-list bloat in AI agents, offering developers a way to decouple agent logic from API integrations.

SourceConduit

Business / T-2026-6453

Cotypist's Local AI Autocomplete: The Anti-Chatbot Writing Tool

Cotypist offers inline AI autocomplete that runs entirely on Apple Silicon. Its rise suggests a quiet backlash against chatbot-centric writing tools.

SourceCotypist

Business / T-2026-7827

JetBrains Mellum: The IDE Giant's Quiet AI Infrastructure Play

JetBrains releases Mellum as a self-hosted code completion model, targeting enterprise air-gapped environments and challenging cloud-only AI coding assistants.

SourceMellum by JetBrains

Business / T-2026-1998

Poolside opens Laguna M.1 and XS.2: a bet on agentic coding from scratch

Poolside releases Laguna M.1 and XS.2, two foundation models for agentic coding, trained in-house and benchmarked on SWE-bench and Terminal-Bench.

SourceLaguna by Poolside

Business / T-2026-4555

The API-to-MCP Pipeline Becomes a Platform Play

Turning REST APIs into MCP servers is becoming a commodity. The real battle is over who controls the gateway.

SourceAPI to MCP

Business / T-2026-1673

Spanly shows what happens when an MCP monitoring tool is also a climate risk platform

Spanly.io is a climate risk intelligence platform, not an MCP monitoring tool. The confusion reveals a real gap in agent observability tooling.

SourceSpanly

Business / T-2026-5844

VELA's AI e-commerce play: 100K sellers, one platform, and the unbundling of marketplace tools

VELA claims 100K sellers, 100M listings managed, and 25% average revenue lift. The AI e-commerce platform is betting consolidation beats incumbents.

SourceVELA

Business / T-2026-5974

SolonGate's zero-trust proxy rethinks AI agent security at the execution layer

SolonGate launches a zero-trust security gateway that intercepts AI agent tool calls in milliseconds, blocking unauthorized commands before execution.

SourceSolonGate

Business / T-2026-1802

Tychi AI's agent-native wallet: self-custody for autonomous capital

Tychi AI launches a self-custody wallet for AI agents on Arbitrum, with local key signing and a hosted 'brain' for intent parsing. The design targets the custodial risk at the…

SourceTychi AI

Business / T-2026-0561

Fetch.ai's AEVS: A proof-of-execution market for AI agents

Fetch.ai's AEVS is a proof-of-execution marketplace for AI agents, letting buyers verify work before paying and sellers prove completion without revealing logic.

SourceAEVS