5 startups tackling the AI agent trust gap

Pittsburgh AI startup inks 10-year lease at Hazelwood Green

AI infrastructure startup Hellbender Inc. has inked a 10-year lease at Hazelwood Green, creating a nearly 90,000-square-foot campus that will allow the...

5 startups tackling the AI agent trust gap

Enterprise AI agents can do the work — but the infrastructure to let them talk to each other, prove they should be trusted, and be audited when something goes wrong is still being built.Here's a look at how five startups are tackling that gap — around orchestration, observability, connectivity, and security — as shown at VB Transform 2026.BAND is orchestrating all the agents you have running in the backgroundIn the very near future, agents will …

AI and blockchain beyond zero trust - Mpelembe Network

Why Zero Trust Isn’t Enough: Tackling the Threat of “Ambient Authority” in AI Agents Thu, July 30 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ — he Shift from Zero Trust to “Beyond Zero” The rapid proliferation of autonomous AI agents has fundamentally broken traditional “Zero Trust” architectures, such as Google’s pioneering BeyondCorp. Because AI agents can consume and process data at machine speed, they often inherit the broad, over-provisioned privileges of their …

TraphicLights.ai Says Every Business is a Startup Again

Founders Alan Moore and Elie Maalouly say the next competitive advantage isn’t adopting more AI, it’s operating AI as an enterprise capability. As organisations accelerate AI adoption across every department, TraphicLights.ai today unveiled its vision for helping enterprises move beyond fragmented AI experimentation to a mature, governed AI operating model. The company believes artificial intelligence […] The post TraphicLights.ai Says Every Bus…

Seekr & OneValley target startups with compliant AI

Startups in regulated sectors will gain access to explainable AI tools as Seekr and OneValley aim to reduce compliance and audit risks.