How quickly things change in the artificial intelligence era. Just a few months after everyone was scrambling to infuse AI into every enterprise operation — and frankly they still are, as agents have captured the enterprise imagination — everyone now is saying, “Whoa, where’s the brake pedal?”
That’s why controlling agents is the next infrastructure priority, says theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante, who examined how AI kingpin Nvidia is positioning its new OpenShell runtime to provide adequate containment for agents. Nvidia also this week debuted an Open Agent Safety Platform. As Dave’s advice concludes: “Scale agent authority only as fast as you can prove independent control.”
New models kept on coming regardless again this week, of course, and mostly what we’re seeing so far in terms of controls is nascent agentic control startups, a whole lot of talk and rather toothless safety controls — though the FTC looks to be gearing up to investigate OpenAI and Anthropic over potential consumer risks. It doesn’t help that OpenAI “parted ways” with three researchers who may have leaked information to AI watchdog groups.
Despite all that uncertainty, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei seems pretty certain he wants his company to go public by Thanksgiving, come hell or rogue agents, or parody on Saturday Night Live. It’s a bit out on the skinny branches, however, as sentiment is fading on IPOs in general. Oura postponed its IPO this week, and Accelevation’s IPO didn’t really go as planned. OpenAI has already been making noises about waiting until next year.
Here’s all the enterprise and emerging tech news and analysis this week from SiliconANGLE and beyond:
Analysis, opinion and food for thought
Google pushed AI into schools — and even students say it has gone too far: The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash (per the Wall Street Journal)
In the AI era, identity evolves into the control plane for trust
Agentic AI is breaking the token meter, and enterprises need a plan for what comes next
AI and data: More models, more worries
Policy
Prominent tech CEOs sign voluntary White House AI safety accord
FTC reportedly investigating OpenAI, Anthropic over potential consumer risks
OpenAI dismisses three safety researchers accused of sharing confidential material
Money matters
Report: Anthropic targets pre-Thanksgiving IPO launch, despite warning of AI’s ‘existential risks’
Leaked Anthropic IPO filing reveals $8B operating loss, rapid revenue growth
AMD acquires world lab developer World Labs for $8.2B
Everyday personal AI assistant startup Instinct raises $1B at $10B valuation
EliseAI raises $350M to enhance its AI work automation suite
World model startup General Intuition closes $220M investment
Metaview wants to eliminate recruiting grunt work and speed up hiring after raising $60M
Voice AI startup Modulate raises $25M to bring audio-native models to more developers
Startup Ascerta collects $18M in funding to help enterprises understand the value AI provides
AI-driven law firm Arceus Legal raises $17M to move beyond contract work
Autoheal raises $7.9M to evaluate and fix AI agents with… AI agents
Accel and Google back Dodge AI’s ambitions to automate enterprise software maintenance with agents
New models and services
GPTpalooza, news from OpenAI’s Dev Day:
OpenAI launches Dots, always-on AI agents in ChatGPT with their own cloud computers
OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol delivers Astra-like performance at a dramatically lower price
OpenAI’s Codex gets reusable cloud environments that follow developers across devices
Google’s new frontier AI model Gemini 4 Argon goes to cybersecurity defenders first
Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to lead new enterprise AI business And it also released Muse small businesses.
Anthropic debuts Claude Sonnet 5.5 running 30% faster than the previous-generation AI model
Microsoft targets ultra-realistic voice agents with its first streaming transcription model
AWS debuts Strands Decider 2B, a first lightweight decision model for accelerate agentic workflows
AWS embeds DuckDB in its PostgreSQL DBMS to speed queries of live and historical data
Oracle expands AI agent features with Fusion Claw
ServiceNow launches conversational interface to its service desk
IBM allows on-prem deployment of its Bob agentic development platform
Ninja Enterprise bundles AI employees and GPUs into one fixed yearly fee
Momentic debuts Mo AI agent to automate software testing without scripts
Omnissa debuts AI agents for IT, a managed cloud PC service and Elara for AI governance
Komprise combats ‘MCP bloat’ with a universal interface for AI agents to access enterprise data
CData’s AI gateway governs agents’ access to enterprise data
Gong adds auto-enrichment and event-driven agents to its revenue intelligence platform
AWS CloudWatch Omni goes after the hardest question in agentic AI: Why did the agent do that?
Classie launches Supervise to track, control and account for enterprise AI agents in real time
Around the enterprise: Nvidia’s record stock buyback
New products, apps and services
Apollo debuts AI app builder, intelligence layer and signal-based outreach system
Unily launches Content Studio to drive simple, accurate employee communication
Coverage from CoreWeave Fully Connected:
CoreWeave expands its AI stack as inference surges: theCUBE’s Fully Connected keynote analysis
Nvidia ties AI factory economics to tokens and power efficiency
ICYMI from last weekend: Breaking Analysis: CoreWeave’s next test: From GPU scarcity to a durable AI cloud
Money matters
Nvidia boosts share buyback program by record $150B
Samsung to inject $1B into Nvidia- and KKR-backed AI infrastructure firm Helix
Synopsys and Amazon announce multi-year $1B IP agreement for custom silicon
OpenAI and Synopsys announce GPT-Synopsys: frontier intelligence to revolutionize chip design
Scale-up interconnect startup CScale launches with $188M in funding
Physical AI custom chip startup SiMa.ai raises $150M at $1.45B valuation
On-demand GPU infrastructure startup GMI Cloud raises $263M to fuel global expansion
Salesforce to acquire AI customer research startup Listen Labs in reported $2B deal
Five takeaways from HPE’s Networking Investor Day
AppDirect acquires interactive AI avatar firm Soul Machines for advisers and businesses
Maritime intelligence startup Quartermaster raises $140M more
Low-energy chip startup Efficient Computer closes on $97M in funding
Volantis raises $88M to develop photonic inference systems
Flow Engineering raises $50M to bring the power of AI to hardware engineering
Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents
Earnings:
Micron almost quadruples its revenue thanks to surging demand for memory chips
Progress Software revenue falls on weakness in maintenance, SaaS
Cyber beat: AI agent security guards
New services
Nvidia debuts enhanced safety controls to rein in rogue AI agents
Cloudflare to become a public certificate authority with post-quantum certificates
Exabeam’s Nova AI agent becomes a persistent investigator as LogRhythm gets AI updates
GTT launches Defense Halo to hunt for threats on enterprise networks with AI
Money matters
Armadin nabs $255.5M to detect vulnerabilities with AI agent swarms
Defense cyber intelligence company RedLattice to go public in $1.25B SPAC deal
Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market
Rig Security launches with $12M to watch AI agents that run under employees’ accounts
RemoteThreat launches with $7M for an offensive cyber operations platform
Attack & response
Researcher links 16,000 scans of a UN statistics portal to OpenAI agents
Google finds vulnerability disclosures doubled as AI changes which flaws get discovered
Elsewhere in tech: About all those IPOs…
Oura postpones IPO over market uncertainty and AI data center supplier Accelevation prices IPO below range
Jeeves raises $110M to scale stablecoin-native banking platform for global payments
Destro AI raises $8M to coordinate mixed robot fleets in enterprise warehouses
Satellite software provider Satlyt closes $8M investment
Walapay raises $4.6M to bring near instant global payments to local businesses
SpaceX puts Starship into orbit for the first time, deploys 26 Starlink satellites
D-Wave opens quantum computing gate-model simulator beta program
Comings and goings
Cognition, creator of the the autonomous AI software engineer Devin, tapped longtime cybersecurity exec Alex Stamos to lead security efforts (per Axios).
Longtime Microsoft executive Ryan Roslansky, who led the software company’s LinkedIn subsidiary for six years, will leave at year’s end. Meantime, also leaving this week was longtimer Peter Lee, onetime leader of Microsoft Research and most recently president of Microsoft Science, for an undisclosed “major detour” to a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join an elite team, fulfilling a dream I’ve had since childhood.”
IP intelligence firm Spur Intelligence named Brendan Evers CEO. Chief Technology Officer Alastair Parr has expanded his role to include chief operating officer. Former CEO Kevin Hickey has become executive chairman.
Workday cut 500 jobs in costly restructuring (per The Stack).
What’s next
Oct. 5-11: Andreessen Horowitz’s San Francisco Tech Week, many events throughout the City.
Oct. 5-8: SailPoint Navigate, Austin. TheCUBE will be onsite with interviews and analysis Oct. 6-7.
Oct. 12-15: Open Compute Project’s OCP Global Summit, San Jose. SiliconANGLE will be stopping in and providing news.