Need to know

• Anthropic's S-1 filing reveals $16.3B first-half revenue and sets up what could be the largest-ever tech IPO.
• Salesforce acquired Braze for $5.66B, adding real-time customer engagement to its Agentforce stack.
• GitHub Universe shipped Copilot Fusion, Agent Merge, and agentic workflows, turning Copilot into a multi-model orchestration platform.
• Cognition is weighing a new funding round at a $70-80B valuation, signaling that autonomous coding agent valuations keep climbing.
• GEO and AI-visibility tools proliferated across GTM, with at least five new platforms helping brands shape what AI engines say about them.