No. 008 — Tuesday 3 November 20262 min read · Archive
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Morning editionAI · Tools · Launches · India · Money07:30 IST

Today in 3

  1. Anthropic's S-1 warns it may "imminently meet" its RSI threshold, while investors push its IPO valuation estimate down.
  2. Salesforce agreed to buy Cresta for $2.7B, and Trajectory raised $45M for post-training tools.
  3. OpenAI detailed Pando, its Git backend for Codex-scale development, and Legora described building agents without seeing traces.

The stories

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02MoneyTechmeme

Salesforce to acquire Cresta for $2.7B

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 ↗

05ToolsOpenAI

Scaling Git at OpenAI

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

Building legal agents when you can't see the data

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 ↗

Also today

In brief
  1. 01Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwenrikiyat.github.io↗
  2. 02llm 0.37 adds gpt-6.1-sol and gpt-6.1-terra modelssimonwillison.net↗
  3. 03Ubuntu LTS kernels still lack a patch for critical CVE-2026-98432freenode.net↗
  4. 04Subvocal lets you talk to your computer without making noisenews.ycombinator.com↗
  5. 05Palantir Q3 revenue rises 96% to $2.31B and guidance is raisedtechmeme.com↗
  6. 06Moving our warehouse off DuckDBposthog.com↗

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