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Natural Raises $30M to Reinvent AI Agent Payments

Natural, a startup founded in 2025, raised $30 million in a Series A led by Forerunner to build payment infrastructure designed for autonomous AI agents. The company — founded by Kahlil Lalji with Eric Wang and Walt Leung — describes itself as an agent orchestration layer enabling agents to move and store funds, make autonomous payments, and handle disputes. Natural has operated in beta and plans to support both traditional bank payments and stablecoins. The round brings the company’s total funding to $40 million and positions Natural as a direct competitor to incumbents such as Stripe while other startups (e.g., DCVC-backed Skyfire Systems) explore stablecoin-based rails.

MSL UK's Jo Bromilow Critiques UK Under‑16s Social Media Ban

Jo Bromilow of MSL UK writes in The Drum that the UK government’s plan to ban under‑16s from social media misunderstands modern childhood and is impractical. Using the new Toy Story 5 as a cultural touchpoint, she argues children today live in a predominantly digital world and that removing access to platforms will not solve harms tied to content. Bromilow raises practical issues — lack of affordable offline alternatives, fragmented attention, and positive communities on platforms — and flags a privacy concern over government-held images used to age‑verify minors. The piece frames the ban as an attempt to sell an idealised, analog childhood that no longer exists and contends that protecting children requires different approaches than a wholesale user ban.

Nextdoor 10-Q Financial Filing Analysis (2026-05-06)

AI Analysis of 10-Q for period 2026-03-31. Note: Management is prioritizing AI-driven product enhancements and scaling monetization, while risk disclosures highlight significant concerns regarding the ability to achieve sustained profitability and historical inaccuracies in key metric estimates.