Create. Fund. Pay. Forge Heat 2 is live. We've teamed up with @ankr to bring Kite Agent Passport to the Ankr Forge community, a hands-on way to explore Kite's infrastructure for autonomous agents. ▷ Create your Kite Agent Passport and give your agent a verifiable identity. ▷ Fund it, and your agent can pay within the limits you set. ▷ Make your first payment and see agentic payments in action. You'll earn Forge Points along the way. Give your agent a Passport at ankr.com/forge 🪁

From new open-weight models and cloud coding agents to agent authorization and independent safety evaluation, 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 Meta released Muse Spark Open, a multimodal open-weight model for coding and agentic work with 816 billion total parameters, 42 billion active parameters and a 1 million-token context window. The weights are available under the Muse Model License, which includes limits on commercial use. research.meta.ai/blog/muse-s… 2️⃣ DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash-1017 for coding and agent tasks across its website, app and API. The same announcement opened Search and Fetch APIs to everyone and made the updated model weights available to download. api-docs.deepseek.com/news/n… 3️⃣ Google made Gemini 4 Argon globally available to developers and enterprises through the API in AI Studio and Gemini platform. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers also gained access in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search. blog.google/innovation-and-a… 4️⃣ Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 for high-volume, cost-sensitive work. It is designed for tasks such as summaries, classification and browser use, and can work alongside Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 as a coding subagent. anthropic.com/claude-haiku-5… 5️⃣ Meta introduced Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full for personal and professional agents, with Active Memory for retrieving relevant context and Active Focus for sustained work. Wonder became available through the Meta Model API and Muse Code, while Wonder Full was made available to Muse Code subscribers. research.meta.ai/blog/muse-w… 6️⃣ Microsoft announced agent accounts and business process memory for Copilot Studio, plus event- and schedule-based triggers in the GitHub Copilot harness. The Frontier rollout lets organizations give agents approved credentials and scoped permissions, retain context between work cycles and start work without a new prompt. microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/… 7️⃣ Cursor enabled cloud agents to build interactive canvases that teams can share by link. It also opened the Environments API in beta for programmatically creating and managing agent environments. cursor.com/changelog/cloud-a… 8️⃣ Cognition made Devin Oncall generally available to investigate alerts and bug reports, diagnose production incidents and work on remediation. Its workflows can include opening and testing a pull request before paging an engineer for review. devin.ai/blog/introducing-de… 9️⃣ Anthropic made Claude Code Review generally available to Team and Enterprise organizations. Once administrators enable it and connect selected GitHub repositories, reviews run automatically on new pull requests, with Quick, Standard and Deep settings available per repository. claude.com/resources/article… 🔟 Sierra published a draft of Personal Agent Protocol, known as Poppy, and announced 35 additional design partners, including OpenAI, PayPal, Visa and Mastercard. The draft covers how personal agents connect to businesses through websites, APIs or business agents, with customer-approved access and company-defined boundaries. sierra.ai/blog/poppy 1️⃣1️⃣ Anthropic said six METR employees had received employee-like access to its internal tools and systems for independent risk assessment, with specified exclusions. METR can publish its findings without Anthropic’s approval, although Anthropic can require redactions of predefined categories of confidential information. anthropic.com/news/an-update… 1️⃣2️⃣ OpenAI disclosed an internal research model that used funds from a wallet the task had not supplied to pay for a Sepolia deployment without authorization. The incident occurred in June and involved test-network funds. alignment.openai.com/misalig…

Kite will be at @money2020 USA, joining the biggest names in payments and tech, from @Visa, @Mastercard, @AmericanExpress, @PayPal and @stripe to @Google, @awscloud, @OpenAI and @Meta. ▷ Booth 14119, Money Hall ▷ The Venetian Las Vegas ▷ Show floor open October 19-21 Come meet the team and talk about payments for the agent economy. See you in Las Vegas. 🪁

Kite is the exclusive Premium Partner of The Blockchain 100 2026 on Binance Square. To celebrate, we're launching the Kite Creator Spotlight: $10,000 in rewards for original posts on Binance Square about Kite and the agent economy. ▷ Runs Oct 16 to Nov 1 ▷ 20 standout creators rewarded, plus a lucky draw for 55 more ▷ Full rules are pinned on our Binance Square profile Every voice deserves a spotlight. 🪁

Your agent already pays within the limits you set. Now it can act for you when the market moves. This is our new Kite Agent Passport release film. Four new capabilities, eleven refinements, one watch. 1️⃣ Aave auto-repay. For a USDC-only loan on Base, set a health-factor threshold and an amount, approve once with your passkey. If the loan crosses that line, Kite Passport repays that amount for you, once. Your agent arms, checks or cancels it with kpass defi (CLI 6.8.0+). 2️⃣ Arc mainnet is now supported in your Kite Passport wallet, and Arc services appear in the catalog. The catalog also drops services on chains that stopped working. 3️⃣ A new look for the dashboard and landing page, with Dark and Night modes. Explore is open to everyone: browse 2,000+ services and recipes with no sign-in. 4️⃣ Sharper sessions: type an expiry and switch between minutes, hours and days without changing its length. Amounts show two decimals, with tiny amounts as "<$0.01". Short or very cheap requests are no longer refused, and the Playground replays a real agent paying under a session. 5️⃣ Payments explain themselves: a failed payment tells you whether you were charged, vouchers say why they failed and your balance updates the moment one lands, and x402 picks the method that actually settles. Update your Kite Passport and try it today. 🪁