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TechCrunch · THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2026

Patronus AI Raises $50M to Simulate Realities in Which AI Agents Fail More Expensively

The digital worlds will contain hazards. The hazards will be catalogued. Agents that fail in the catalogue will be retrained and redeployed into the world the catalogue was built to approximate. Adequate has a theory about what happens next. Adequate is not authorized to share it.
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