The danger isn’t the AI model. It’s the agent acting on its own, and Zenity raised $125m to watch it.
Most of the money spent guarding AI has gone to the model and the prompt. Zenity has just raised $125m on a different argument: both miss the real danger. That danger is the AI agent that acts on its own. The Israeli startup secures what agents do once a company lets them loose inside its […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Published: 3 August 2026
Source: The Next Web AI
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 4 August 2026
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