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GitLab Orbit Goes GA, Claiming Up to 45x Fewer Agent Retries

GitLab Orbit, a context graph for AI coding agents, is now GA. GitLab says its tests showed up to 45x fewer retries and 4.5x fewer tokens.

Mintive Raises $7m to Give Every AI Agent Its Own Identity

Mintive, formerly MintMCP, has raised a $7m round led by Cowboy Ventures to give each AI agent its own identity, permissions and audit trail.

Serval Raises $150m at a $3bn Valuation to Take On ServiceNow

Sequoia led Serval's $150m Series C at a $3bn valuation. The IT automation start-up will hire 500 people and build out its Catalyst AI agent.

Deepgram Is Buying Daily, Moving Pipecat to an Independent Foundation

Deepgram is acquiring Daily, creator of the Pipecat voice agent framework, which moves to an independent foundation with a cross-industry steering group.

DoorDash to Buy Instacart for $17bn, Facing a Long Antitrust Review

DoorDash has agreed to buy Instacart for $65 a share, about $17bn, mostly in cash. It needs US, Canadian and Israeli approval and may close in 2028.

Freshworks Buys Robusta to Add AI Outage Investigation to Freshservice

Freshworks has bought Robusta, whose AI agents investigate IT outages and suggest fixes for engineers to approve, for Freshservice. No price given.

Foundry Robotics Raises $100m for a 130,000 sq ft Robot Factory

Foundry Robotics raised a $100m Series A led by Marlinspike to build out its 130,000 sq ft Emeryville factory, where AI-driven robots assemble hardware.

Fragment Raises $56m for AI Agents That Fix Purchasing Errors

Fragment launched with $56m, including an 8VC-led Series A, for AI agents that fix purchasing and invoice exceptions at Graybar, CNX and others.

Tencent and Visa Sign a Four-Part MoU That Includes AI Agent Payments

Tencent and Visa signed an MoU to explore cross-border payments for travellers, Visa Direct transfers into Weixin Pay and AI agents that shop for users.

ServiceNow Forms 11-Member AI Alliance With OpenAI and Anthropic

ServiceNow's Control Tower Alliance has 11 founding members, including OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA and Okta, to certify AI tools for governance.

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