Need to know

• Nooks secured $500 million from General Catalyst to fund AI revenue agents, the largest GTM-AI capital event of the year.
• Salesforce acquired Cresta for a reported $2.7 billion, adding voice agents to Agentforce as Coworker usage hits 185,000 users.
• OpenAI and Meta both acquired coding infrastructure startups in the same week, signaling a race to own the full agent development stack.
• Traversal raised $120 million at a $1 billion valuation as AI-generated code volume drives a new SRE agent category into hypergrowth.
• Anthropic updated its S-1 showing $17 billion in Q3 revenue and $895 billion in compute commitments, reframing the IPO as an infrastructure bet.