From frontier-model launches and managed agent runtimes to smart-home control and independent oversight, the period since our last edition brought major developments across the AI-agent stack. Here’s everything worth catching up on in the latest edition of AI Agents Pulse: 1️⃣ OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model to be broadly deployed and the first OpenAI model to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under its Preparedness Framework. 2️⃣ Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash for long-horizon coding and autonomous agents at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, alongside Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for trusted defenders through the Fairwind Program. 3️⃣ OpenAI released the Agents API in public beta for all developers. Powered by the open-source Codex harness, it supports long-running sessions, MCP and other tools, and multi-agent orchestration with subagents. 4️⃣ Meta introduced Muse, a personal agent running in a dedicated Muse Secure VM. It can browse, fill forms, keep working after the app closes, and seek approval before sending email or making purchases. 5️⃣ Anthropic announced a redesigned Claude Code Projects beta whose coordinator scopes work, delegates to parallel cloud threads, reviews outputs, and shares project memory. Initial access is limited to select Pro and Max subscribers using cloud sessions. 6️⃣ Google made Home MCP available in early access, letting compatible agents inspect home structures and device state, control devices, and query history. Its safeguards prohibit sensitive actions such as unlocking doors. 7️⃣ Salesforce introduced AIforce, a live interface layer that lets agents reason and act across Salesforce data, workflows, business logic, permissions, security, and governance from interfaces including Claude and Slack. 8️⃣ Anthropic announced a non-exclusive embedded-evaluation partnership with Accenture, led by Faculty. Each company expects to invest at least $1 billion over five years, while operating details and evaluation standards are still being worked out. 9️⃣ California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order accelerating independent AI oversight and directing experts to deliver recommendations within two months, including how to advance an independently verified kill switch for frontier models. The order seeks recommendations rather than imposing a completed kill-switch mandate today.

Kite is now live on @Arc Mainnet, building the foundation for an agent-to-agent platform with trust, governance and USDC payments. The future of the agentic economy is here. Arc Mainnet: Kite Agent Passport:

Autonomous agents need identity, authorization, and a way to pay. We're hosting Behind the Scenes of AI together with @verona_dev in Seoul, joined by @pieverse_io, @openroboto, and @Hippo_Protocol. From verified data and agent payments to secure information and robot learning, meet the teams building the infrastructure behind AI. 📅 September 17 | 7 PM KST 📍 Spark Plus Seolleung 3 Join us for project sessions, Chuseok bites, and conversations with Korea's AI builders. 🪁 RSVP:

When AI agents transact on our behalf, how should payments, identity, and trust work? Our co-founder and CEO @ChiZhangData will join Agentic Finance, Commerce & Payments alongside: ▷ Siwei Shen | VP of Engineering, AI & Data, @coinbase ▷ Katia Gazquez Rausch | Agentic Commerce Strategy Manager, @Adyen ▷ Alex Witt @AlexLWitt | General Partner, @VerdaVentures ▷ ZiYang David Fan | Executive Director, Institute for California AI Policy (ICAP) ▷ Jeff Zielinski | CFO, Buy&Ship ▷ Leo Yiyang Li @alohaleonardox | Co-founder & CTO, AEON Protocol @AEON_Community ▷ Rufei Qian | CEO, @NihaoPay The discussion will explore payment, identity, and settlement infrastructure for agents, the role of stablecoins in agentic commerce, and financial use cases seeing real adoption. @GoKiteAI is an event partner. Hosted by Fintechnize and presented by @VerdaVentures. September 24, 2026 | 6:00 to 8:00 PM PT Stanford Graduate School of Business @StanfordGSB Register: See you at Stanford. 🪁

Before agents negotiate, their authority needs to be defined. Chapter 9 of THE AGENT PLAYBOOK explores why smarter models alone are not enough, and how enforceable mandates let agents negotiate within their owners’ limits. 🪁

Glad to support @Bitget_AI Hackathon S2 as a partner, joining the ecosystem to help builders explore AI × tokenized US stock trading. As agents begin executing trades autonomously, verifiable identity, clear authorization boundaries, and reliable payment infrastructure become essential. That’s what we’re building at Kite: enabling agents to act within user-defined permissions while users stay in control. This Hackathon puts Agentic Trading in focus: ▷ Build applications at the intersection of AI and US stock trading, exploring use cases for tokenized assets. ▷ Showcase your project to the ecosystem partners backing the event. ▷ Compete for a 50,000 USDT prize pool. Submissions close September 21. We look forward to seeing builders turn trading strategies into working applications, with clear authorization behind every agent action. 🪁

AI agents are reshaping industries. How can students prepare for the opportunities ahead? Our APAC Lead @0xLaughing will join students and industry speakers at “AI Unlock: Students in the Agent Era” to discuss AI, Web3, and career development. Hosted by @tbablockchain, @trondao, NTU Fintech Club, and @GoKiteAI. Speaker lineup: ▷ Shih-Wei Liao | Associate Professor, Dept. of CSIE & GINM, NTU ▷ @gobananas929 | Operations Manager, TRON ▷ @Alvin0617 | Founder, CryptoWesearch ▷ @0xfomor | Social Lead, TrueNorth AI ▷ @0xLaughing | APAC Lead, Kite September 8, 18:30 to 21:30 (UTC+8) Room 102, 1F, Xinsheng Lecture Building, National Taiwan University Join us to explore opportunities in the agent era. 🪁

Glad to support @okx Outcomes League Season 2 through @KiteAIFDN's sponsorship. This season spans sports, esports and crypto markets through free points-based predictions. We look forward to seeing the perspectives these different communities bring. 🪁

Agents should not discover their authority halfway through a negotiation. It should be set before the negotiation begins. Kite Agent Passport 2.0 shows what governed agentic commerce looks like in procurement: ▷ A person defines the target price, the limit, and the terms that stay protected. ▷ Both agents negotiate within their own private mandates, with every offer checked before it is sent. ▷ Only a package permitted by both mandates reaches human approval and signature. Kite Agent Passport does not replace the human signer. It makes clear what an agent can and cannot do before it acts. Watch the procurement demo. 🪁

From governed web retrieval and managed coding sandboxes to physical-lab standards and agent security, here’s what moved across the agent stack this cycle: 1️⃣ AWS added domain and published-date filters to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Web Search, giving agents per-request controls over source selection and recency. The service also expanded to AWS’s Ireland and Tokyo regions. 2️⃣ Google Cloud introduced Gemini Enterprise for Legal in preview, with specialized skills, legal-system connectors, partner agents and the Gemini Enterprise platform for legal workflows. 3️⃣ Snowflake made Cortex Agents Coding Agent generally available. Its managed sandbox exposes bash, file operations, web search and SQL execution, so customers do not have to host an agent loop themselves. 4️⃣ Oracle Health expanded its U.S. Clinical AI Agent with professional-fee coding, clinician-controlled dictation and chart review. Clinicians remain responsible for reviewing, editing and signing documentation. 5️⃣ Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, a shared specification for agents to safely operate programmable lab and manufacturing devices. It is model-agnostic and supports access through protocols including MCP. 6️⃣ Following incidents in third-party evaluation environments, Anthropic said it paused external cyber evaluations of pre-release models, which have since resumed under new practices. It also deployed a classifier that blocks, before a tool call runs, model attempts to aggressively probe or escape a testing environment or unexpectedly obtain internet access. 7️⃣ On September 1, Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1, its generally available version of the same underlying model as limited-access Claude Mythos 5.1. The model is designed for long-horizon agentic coding and research. Cache reads cost $0.25 per million tokens, 75% less than Fable 5; Anthropic estimates this cuts typical workload costs by 25% and highly agentic workloads by up to approximately 45%. 8️⃣ Google introduced agentic video understanding for Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite via the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Google reports up to 88% lower token use, up to 66% lower analysis cost and up to 7% higher accuracy in its benchmarks. 9️⃣ Agent-security startup AIR emerged from stealth with $50 million across two seed rounds. TechCrunch reports that it is building a platform to discover enterprise agents, continuously vet their skills, tools and add-ons, and block their interaction with software or external sources that fail its security criteria. 🔟 CrowdStrike introduced SafeMind, a family of security models and harnesses that it says will operate natively in the Falcon platform. It includes Red Tempest for advanced offensive red-team scenarios and Blue Solano for defensive protection, built using NVIDIA Nemotron open models.

On September 1 at the Google Web3 AI Summit 2026 in Sunnyvale, hosted by @googlecloud and @GoogleDeepMind, our co-founder and CEO @ChiZhangData will join a speaker lineup featuring leaders from @ethereumfndn, @circle, @chainlink, @Consensys, @coinbase, @a16zcrypto, and more. As AI agents become economic actors, Chi will share Kite’s perspective on the identity, authorization, and payment infrastructure they need to act and transact safely at scale. Event details: The agent economy is becoming real. Infrastructure has to come first. 🪁

Kite kept community supported through the migration, brought the conversation on trusted agent payments to industry stages across Asia, and set up the next conversations for builders. Here’s what happened last week: 1️⃣ We shared a KITE token migration update: the new Ethereum contract is unpaused and onchain transfers are live. @KiteAIFDN also opened a manual-review support form for affected self-custodial holders. 2️⃣ At @binance Clubhouse Bali during @CoinfestAsia, our Head of Ecosystem @Henryleemr joined a panel and spoke with Binance Global Media & Content Lead @jessicasmw, while APAC Lead @0xLaughing connected with builders and the community. 3️⃣ We joined @0xEastPoint’s EastPoint:Seoul 2026 as a sponsor, where CMO @Cindyshi0907 will discuss what turns agent intelligence into real economic action. 4️⃣ At The New Payment Stack in Hong Kong, co-hosted by @avax and @AvaxTeam1 with @GoKiteAI, @0xLaughing presented “Building AI Native Infrastructure: The Agentic Execution Layer.” 5️⃣ We announced our participation in @0xJeff’s gm AI v2 during @token2049 Singapore, where we will share how Kite is building verifiable agent identity and adaptive inference for autonomous systems. Verifiable identity, scoped authority, and accountability are the foundation for agents to operate in the real economy. 🪁

Trusted agent payments start with authority that can be verified and constrained. At @SlowMist_Team × @MetaEraCN’s “Through the Mist, Into Trust” event in Hong Kong, our APAC Lead @0xLaughing joined the Agent Payments panel on the shift from human payments to agent payments. The wider program also brought together perspectives from @osldotcom, @plumenetwork, @selat_ai, and @DogPay_. ▷ Identity: which agent is acting ▷ Authority: what it can do, and within which limits ▷ Accountability: how every payment is verified and risks managed These are the controls that turn agent payments into trusted payments. 🪁

Global asset allocation is being reshaped by the convergence of digital finance and AI. At @Techub_News’ "Future Insights: New Opportunities in Global Asset Allocation" forum in Hong Kong, our APAC Lead @0xLaughing joined a panel on the intersection of digital finance, AI, public markets, and prediction markets. ▷ Capital is moving across more connected market structures ▷ Digital financial infrastructure makes ownership and settlement programmable ▷ AI agents need verifiable identity and scoped authority to participate safely Thank you to @Techub_News for convening the discussion, alongside institutions including @futufriends, @HSKChain, and @zr_securities. 🪁

AI agents need more than a payment rail. They need verifiable authority to act. At The New Payment Stack in Hong Kong, hosted by @avax and @AvaxTeam1 with @GoKiteAI as co-host, our APAC Lead @0xLaughing delivered "Building AI Native Infrastructure: The Agentic Execution Layer" and joined the panel on programmable, autonomous, real-time payments. ▷ Stablecoins move value; identity and policy define who can transact, why, and within what limits. ▷ Agent payments must be governed, auditable, and revocable by default. ▷ Programmable money is the first step. Verifiable agent authority makes it usable. Thank you to @avax, @AvaxTeam1, @tether, @InterlaceMoney, @Kun_sight, @OSL_HK, @RD_Technologies, @RedotPay, @allscaleio, @fmgroupxyz and @kaloqx for keeping the conversation close to real deployment. 🪁

📌 KITE Token Migration Support Form Kite Foundation @KiteAIFDN has made the following support form available for users who require manual review. If you held KITE tokens in a self-custodial wallet and your original wallet has been compromised or is no longer accessible, or if you did not receive the correct amount of new KITE tokens after migration, please submit a request here: This form is only for users who require manual assistance. Eligible holders do not need to submit a form to receive their migrated KITE tokens. If your KITE tokens are held on a centralized exchange, please wait for that exchange’s official announcement instead. Kite Foundation will review each request based on snapshot records, on-chain data, and proof of wallet ownership. Kite Foundation will never ask for your seed phrase, private key, 2FA code, or any migration fee.

AI’s future is shaped not only by what models can do, but by the conversations that move the industry forward. At @binance Clubhouse Bali during @CoinfestAsia, the Kite team connected with the people building that future: ▷ Our Head of Ecosystem @Henryleemr joined a panel to share Kite’s perspective on the AI industry. ▷ He also sat down one-on-one with @jessicasmw, Global Media & Content Lead at Binance, for an interview. ▷ On the ground, our APAC Lead @0xlaughing connected with builders and community members throughout the event. Thank you to @binance and everyone who made time to connect. 🪁

The agent economy needs more than smarter models. @GoKiteAI is joining @0xEastPoint’s EastPoint:Seoul 2026 as a sponsor. Our CMO @Cindyshi0907 will explore what it takes to turn agent intelligence into real economic action. Hosted by @hashed_official, @bloomingbit_io and @hankyungmedia, EastPoint brings together institutions, policymakers, and builders across digital assets, AI, and Payments. The program features leaders from @FTI_Global, @moonpay, @SBISEC and @HashHub_Tokyo, alongside partners @circle, @Anchorage, @CantonFdn, @Tether_to and KakaoPay. On September 28 at Westin Seoul Parnas, Cindy will unpack: ▷ Verifiable identity ▷ Permissioned payments ▷ Onchain settlement The infrastructure autonomous agents need to participate in the agent economy. 🪁

Building through every market cycle takes more than conviction. It takes real conversations with the people moving the industry forward. On August 20 and 21, Kite will join @binance Clubhouse Bali as a sponsor during @CoinfestAsia 2026. The Kite team will take part in keynote sessions and panel discussions, connecting with practitioners, users, and community members on the ground to explore how the industry can keep building through every cycle. Register: See you in Bali. 🪁