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Orthogonal Raises $4.3 Million to Connect AI Agents With Paid APIs and Instant Transactions

Orthogonal Raises $4.3 Million to Connect AI Agents With Paid APIs and Instant Transactions

Orthogonal secured $4.3 million in seed funding led by Pantera Capital with participation from Y Combinator on June 25, 2026. The startup builds infrastructure that allows AI agents to discover online services, coordinate task execution, and perform transactions automatically. Founded by former leaders from Coinbase, Vercel, Google, and Amazon Robotics, the platform currently supports more than 35 APIs powering automated workflows.

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Orca Introduces TypeScript-Based Desktop ADE to Coordinate Fleets of Parallel AI Coding Agents

Orca Introduces TypeScript-Based Desktop ADE to Coordinate Fleets of Parallel AI Coding Agents

stablyai/orca is an MIT-licensed TypeScript and desktop-based agent development environment that recently gained rapid star trajectory on GitHub. It eliminates the friction of managing multiple terminal-based AI tools by providing a unified GUI with quick open, account switching, and usage tracking for any CLI agent. This repo's momentum signals that developers are seeking centralized control planes to orchestrate and monitor fleets of parallel autonomous agents.

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Sail Research Raises $80 Million to Lower Inference Costs for Long-Horizon AI Agents

Sail Research Raises $80 Million to Lower Inference Costs for Long-Horizon AI Agents

Sail Research emerged from stealth on June 25, 2026, with $80 million in combined seed and Series A funding at a $450 million valuation. The startup optimizes inference stacks to trade latency for throughput, claiming a 3x to 10x cost reduction for long-running AI agents. Kleiner Perkins led the Series A and Sequoia led the seed round, with Alphabet chairman John Hennessy participating as an angel investor.

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Vercel Launches Eve Open-Source AI Agent Framework for Production Workloads

Vercel Launches Eve Open-Source AI Agent Framework for Production Workloads

Vercel released Eve, an open-source, Apache-2.0 licensed framework designed to build, run, and scale AI agents in production. The filesystem-first framework maps each directory on disk to an agent, where individual files represent specific sandboxes, approvals, durable execution flows, and integrations. Developers can initialize projects locally using the command 'npx eve@latest init' and deploy them directly using the standard Vercel command line interface.

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