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This week wasn’t about small updates — it was about big bets. Payments giants, cloud players, and even Wall Street are leaning into AI agents, while new launches are proving these systems aren’t just experiments anymore.

⏱ElevenLabs rolls out SFX v2: 
ElevenLabs launches SFX v2 for AI-generated sound effects — featuring up to 30-second clips, seamless looping, 48 kHz sample rate, refreshed library, and full availability (MP3/WAV) across all plans with SB-1 soundboard also gaining support and MIDI integration. Source

🔗 Visa opens agentic commerce platform: 
Visa unveils new developer tools – an MCP Server and Acceptance Agent Toolkit – to let AI agents securely access Visa’s payment APIs and build trusted agentic shopping experiences. Source

📊 Cisco turbocharges enterprise AI pipelines: 
Cisco integrates VAST Data’s engine into its NVIDIA-based Secure AI Factory, accelerating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and enabling more powerful enterprise AI agents beyond basic chatbots. Source

CoreWeave acquires OpenPipe to enhance AI agent development tools: 
AI-focused cloud platform CoreWeave acquired OpenPipe's reinforcement learning toolkit for training AI agents, expanding capabilities for developers building customized AI models despite the company's $8 billion debt load. Source

💼 Finance embraces autonomous AI assistants: 
A prominent fintech CEO outlines five ways agentic AI is reshaping finance – from real-time fraud detection and automated loan underwriting to hyper-personalized wealth management and 24/7 client support. Source

NVIDIA highlights six ways AI agents boost team performance:
Analysis shows AI agents delivering measurable impact in software development (4,000 engineering days saved), data-driven decision-making, IT operations optimization, manufacturing automation, customer service, and personalized education. Blog

💰 SoFi launches “Agentic AI” ETF: 
Fintech firm SoFi introduces the Agentic AI ETF (ticker AGIQ) to invest in U.S. companies developing or using autonomous AI agent technologies, tapping into the next evolution of AI-driven productivity. Source

Microsoft Copilot Studio roadmap reveals extensive AI agent features:
Planned capabilities through September 2025 include computer use automation, enhanced knowledge sources, autonomous agent analytics, and integration with WhatsApp, SharePoint, and third-party systems. Source

📡 DeepL Agent launches autonomous AI assistant for businesses:
Translation company DeepL unveiled DeepL Agent, an autonomous AI system that can perform complex business workflows across finance, sales, marketing, and customer support by operating through existing interfaces like keyboards and browsers. Source

💸 Wealth tech startup lands funding: 
Dispatch, a wealth management automation platform, raises $18 million in Series A financing to boost “agentic” workflows and AI-driven data orchestration that streamline advisers’ operations. Source

Fortune examines AI agents as small business co-founders: 
Alibaba's Accio agent is already automating 70% of traditionally manual B2B workflows, with autonomous systems managing supplier sourcing, negotiations, order processing, and logistics in the $30 trillion B2B industry. Source

🧪 Life sciences push for safe agentic AI: 
The Pistoia Alliance (a pharma R&D consortium) launches a collaborative Agentic AI initiative – seeded by Genentech – to develop industry standards and protocols for safely adopting autonomous AI agents in drug research. Source

JFrog researcher reveals "parallel poisoned web" attack targeting AI agents😀 Security researcher demonstrates stealthy attack method where malicious websites serve different content to AI agents versus human users, enabling hidden prompt injection attacks that bypass traditional security measures. Source

🛡️ Cybersecurity firm raises $20M: 
FireCompass secures a $20 million strategic investment from EC-Council to expand its agentic AI-powered platform, which continuously automates red-team penetration testing and attack surface monitoring at machine speed. Source

🏅 Enterprise AI startup earns accolades: 
Gartner names Sema4.ai a 2025 “Cool Vendor” in Agentic AI, recognizing the startup’s enterprise-ready AI agent platform that automates complex workflows with built-in governance, security, and scalability. Source

Wake Forest receives NSF grant for multi-agent AI security standards:
$598,609 CAREER award will fund development of safety and security standards for collaborative AI systems to prevent single-agent failures from compromising entire multi-agent networks. Source

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