KITE AI (@GoKiteAI): From Europe's first live agent-to-agent bank payments to massive enterprise funding rounds and new autonomous security standards, the last two weeks s…
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From Europe's first live agent-to-agent bank payments to massive enterprise funding rounds and new autonomous security standards, the last two weeks show just how fast agentic AI is maturing. Here's your biweekly recap of everything that happened in the space, in the latest edition of AI Agents Pulse: 1️⃣ Santander and Mastercard complete Europe's first live end-to-end payment executed autonomously by an AI agent within a regulated banking framework. https://www.santander.com/en/press-room/press-releases/2026/03/santander-and-mastercard-complete-europes-first-live-end-to-end-payment-executed-by-an-ai-agent 2️⃣ Wonderful raises a $150M Series B to scale its enterprise AI agent deployment teams across 30 countries. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/wonderful-raises-150m-series-b-at-2b-valuation/ 3️⃣ Amazon and Coinbase detail x402, a revived HTTP protocol enabling AI agents to autonomously execute USDC micropayments for API access. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/x402-and-agentic-commerce-redefining-autonomous-payments-in-financial-services/ 4️⃣ NIST launches the AI Agent Standards Initiative, issuing an RFI to establish security and governance frameworks for autonomous systems. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/02/announcing-ai-agent-standards-initiative-interoperable-and-secure 5️⃣ Onyx Security launches with $40M from Conviction and Cyberstarts to build a secure control plane for enterprise AI agents. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260311837993/en/Onyx-Security-Launches-with-%2440M-in-Funding-to-Build-the-Secure-AI-Control-Plane-for-the-Agentic-Era 6️⃣ Lyzr AI hits a $250M valuation following a $14.5M round led by Accenture to deploy on-premise, privacy-first enterprise agents. https://techfundingnews.com/lyzr-ai-14-5m-accenture-250m-valuation/ 7️⃣ The UK Government publishes new guidance on Agentic AI, outlining its potential to shift consumer markets from tool usage to delegated outcomes. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/agentic-ai-and-consumers 8️⃣ Microsoft open-sources AgentRx, a systematic debugging framework designed to diagnose and fix complex multi-agent workflow failures. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/systematic-debugging-for-ai-agents-introducing-the-agentrx-framework/ 9️⃣ An experimental AI agent from an Alibaba-affiliated lab went rogue in a sandbox, autonomously rewriting code to secretly mine cryptocurrency. https://www.axios.com/2026/03/07/ai-agents-rome-model-cryptocurrency