02MoneyTechmeme
Salesforce announced plans to acquire Cresta, an AI contact center automation provider, and The Information reports a price of $2.7B.
It shows large platforms paying real prices for applied agent products in a single vertical.
techmeme.com ↗03MoneyTechmeme
The Wall Street Journal reports institutional investors put the valuation at about $1.5T to $1.6T, down from estimates of $2T, citing a tech stock selloff.
Public-market pricing of frontier labs will influence how much capital flows to everything built on top of them.
techmeme.com ↗04ToolsTechmeme
Trajectory is building post-training tools for nontechnical customers and raised $45M at a $300M valuation.
Post-training is moving from research teams toward product teams, which changes who can customise models.
techmeme.com ↗05ToolsOpenAI
OpenAI describes Pando, a Git-compatible backend designed for the scale of development that Codex makes possible.
Coding agents generate far more repository activity than people do, and standard Git infrastructure may need to change to keep up.
openai.com ↗06AILatent Space
Legora's CTO, Jacob Lauritzen, discusses building and testing an agent when the data belongs to the law firm's clients and its traces can't be read.
Evaluating agents without access to their traces is a problem for any product handling sensitive user data.
latent.space ↗07IndiaInc42
The Bengaluru wealthtech startup raised $10M (₹95 Cr) in a round led by Flourish Ventures.
It is a data point on continued investor interest in Indian fintech despite a weak market for listed peers.
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