🤝 M&A Activity — Alphabetical
29 companies · 150 stories
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Alibaba
- June 9, 2026 — Pentagon Designates Alibaba, Baidu, and Other Chinese Tech Firms as Aiding China's Military
- April 12, 2026 — SiFive — founded by the UC Berkeley engineers behind the RISC-V open chip architecture — closed an oversubscribed $400M
Amazon
- August 31, 2026 — OpenAI and Anthropic Buy Tens of Thousands of Macs for Agent Training; Apple Pulls Forward Refreshes
- August 27, 2026 — Subject: Daily AI News Digest – August 27, 2026
- August 8, 2026 — Shepherd: forkable agent runtime enables meta-agent supervision
- May 29, 2026 — Snowflake targets AI agent adoption with AWS deal and Natoma acquisition
- May 22, 2026 — xAI / SpaceX Secures $60B Option to Acquire Cursor, Explores Three-Way Alliance with Mistral
AMD
- August 7, 2026 — AMD Acquires Taalas to Etch AI Models Directly Into Silicon
- August 7, 2026 — Anthropic loosens Claude Fable 5 biology guardrails while warning of bioweapon risk
- August 6, 2026 — AMD acquires Taalas to hard-wire AI models directly into silicon
- May 3, 2026 — Anthropic Approaches $900B+ Valuation — $50B Round Could Close Within Two Weeks BREAKING TechCrunch / Marina Temkin ·…
Anthropic
- August 31, 2026 — OpenAI and Anthropic Buy Tens of Thousands of Macs for Agent Training; Apple Pulls Forward Refreshes
- August 31, 2026 — OpenAI cuts off Cursor after SpaceX's $60 billion takeover
- August 30, 2026 — Business Insider reported that Sony and Warner Chappell accused Anthropic of a "brazen campaign" to train Clau
- August 29, 2026 — Music publishers' Anthropic lawsuit escalates training-data litigation
- August 27, 2026 — Anthropic Planned, Then Abandoned, a $7B Purchase of Chip Startup MatX
Apple
- August 31, 2026 — OpenAI and Anthropic Buy Tens of Thousands of Macs for Agent Training; Apple Pulls Forward Refreshes
- August 15, 2026 — AI-Powered Wearables Race to Become Health Intelligence Platforms
- August 1, 2026 — The Information makes the case for Apple buying Granola
- May 17, 2026 — 💼 Industry News & Deals Anthropic in Talks to Raise $30–50B at Up to $950B Valuation — Near-Trillion-Dollar Club…
Arm
- April 26, 2026 — Cerebras IPO Roadshow Underway: $22–25B Nasdaq Listing Targets Mid-May 2026 Hot
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Baidu
- July 28, 2026 — Baidu and Lyft enter London's robotaxi market as testing begins
- June 9, 2026 — Pentagon Designates Alibaba, Baidu, and Other Chinese Tech Firms as Aiding China's Military
- May 18, 2026 — Baidu posts AI revenue milestone; NextEra–Dominion infrastructure tie-up advances
- April 12, 2026 — SiFive — founded by the UC Berkeley engineers behind the RISC-V open chip architecture — closed an oversubscribed $400M
ByteDance
- April 12, 2026 — SiFive — founded by the UC Berkeley engineers behind the RISC-V open chip architecture — closed an oversubscribed $400M
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Cerebras
- May 17, 2026 — 💼 Industry News & Deals Anthropic in Talks to Raise $30–50B at Up to $950B Valuation — Near-Trillion-Dollar Club…
- April 26, 2026 — Cerebras IPO Roadshow Underway: $22–25B Nasdaq Listing Targets Mid-May 2026 Hot
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DeepSeek
- August 13, 2026 — OpenAI and Anthropic Data Demand Turns Startups’ Slack Threads Into Prized Assets
- August 7, 2026 — Anthropic loosens Claude Fable 5 biology guardrails while warning of bioweapon risk
- July 28, 2026 — China Rejects U.S. Claims That Chinese AI Firms Are Stealing IP Through Model Distillation
- June 9, 2026 — Pentagon Designates Alibaba, Baidu, and Other Chinese Tech Firms as Aiding China's Military
- April 12, 2026 — SiFive — founded by the UC Berkeley engineers behind the RISC-V open chip architecture — closed an oversubscribed $400M
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Google
- August 28, 2026 — Hugging Face’s Answer to “Dystopian Humanoid Robots”
- August 27, 2026 — Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B
- August 26, 2026 — Meta Reaches $18 Billion Settlement With 48 States Over Child-Safety Claims
- August 20, 2026 — Marvell Gives Google Rights to Buy Up to $12.2 Billion in Stock as Part of Chip Deal
- August 20, 2026 — Robots Rewiring Construction
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Huawei
- April 12, 2026 — SiFive — founded by the UC Berkeley engineers behind the RISC-V open chip architecture — closed an oversubscribed $400M
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IBM
- August 21, 2026 — Stripe reportedly moves to acquire OpenRouter as AI routing becomes a platform layer
- August 16, 2026 — Silver Lake-Workday Talks Signal Potential End to AI-Driven SaaS Sell-off
Intel
- June 30, 2026 — RAD Intel, an AI-driven marketing decision-intelligence company, announced it acquired a majority stake in Canadian…
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Meta
- August 26, 2026 — Meta Reaches $18 Billion Settlement With 48 States Over Child-Safety Claims
- August 8, 2026 — Shepherd: forkable agent runtime enables meta-agent supervision
- August 7, 2026 — Anthropic loosens Claude Fable 5 biology guardrails while warning of bioweapon risk
- July 13, 2026 — Meta signals AI compute may be overbuilt — even as it commits $50B+ to a 5GW data center
- June 24, 2026 — Qualcomm enters the data-center CPU race with Dragonfly C1000 and Meta as customer
Microsoft
- August 27, 2026 — Subject: Daily AI News Digest – August 27, 2026
- August 26, 2026 — Meta Reaches $18 Billion Settlement With 48 States Over Child-Safety Claims
- August 10, 2026 — OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
- August 7, 2026 — Anthropic loosens Claude Fable 5 biology guardrails while warning of bioweapon risk
- June 2, 2026 — Microsoft Build 2026 Preview — Overview
Mistral
- May 23, 2026 — xAI–Mistral–Cursor partnership talks gain definition
- May 22, 2026 — Four Frontier Labs, Four Acquisitions in Five Days
- May 22, 2026 — Mistral AI Acquires Austrian Physics-AI Startup Emmi AI to Expand into Industrial AI
- May 22, 2026 — xAI / SpaceX Secures $60B Option to Acquire Cursor, Explores Three-Way Alliance with Mistral
- May 20, 2026 — Mistral AI acquires Austrian "Physics AI" startup Emmi AI to lead industrial simulation market
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NVIDIA
- August 29, 2026 — Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for ~$12.9 billion
- August 28, 2026 — Executive Analysis: Why Nvidia Backs and Buys AI Startups
- August 28, 2026 — Hugging Face’s Answer to “Dystopian Humanoid Robots”
- August 27, 2026 — Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B
- August 27, 2026 — Subject: Daily AI News Digest – August 27, 2026
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OpenAI
- August 31, 2026 — Independent Analysts Escalate Their Reading of the OpenAI/Hugging Face Agent Incident
- August 31, 2026 — OpenAI and Anthropic Buy Tens of Thousands of Macs for Agent Training; Apple Pulls Forward Refreshes
- August 31, 2026 — OpenAI cuts off Cursor after SpaceX's $60 billion takeover
- August 27, 2026 — Subject: Daily AI News Digest – August 27, 2026
- August 26, 2026 — Meta Reaches $18 Billion Settlement With 48 States Over Child-Safety Claims
Oracle
- April 4, 2026 — 🔥 Breaking Today — Anthropic restricts Claude subscriptions; OpenAI leadership shake-up * 🚀 Model Releases & New…
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Palantir
- August 16, 2026 — Silver Lake-Workday Talks Signal Potential End to AI-Driven SaaS Sell-off
- May 22, 2026 — Mistral AI Acquires Austrian Physics-AI Startup Emmi AI to Expand into Industrial AI
- May 11, 2026 — OpenAI Launches "The Deployment Company" With $4B+ Investment and 19-Firm TPG Partnership
Perplexity
- May 23, 2026 — SpaceX officially filed its S-1 prospectus to list on Nasdaq under ticker SPCX, with Goldman Sachs as lead underwriter
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Salesforce
- August 27, 2026 — Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B
- August 27, 2026 — Subject: Daily AI News Digest – August 27, 2026
- June 15, 2026 — Trending Salesforce to acquire AI customer-service firm Fin for $3.6B
Samsung
- August 15, 2026 — AI-Powered Wearables Race to Become Health Intelligence Platforms
SAP
- May 5, 2026 — NEWSAP acquires Dremio and Prior Labs to round out AI data platform
- May 4, 2026 — SAP to acquire Prior Labs and stand up a European frontier AI lab
Scale AI
- May 5, 2026 — Meta debuts Muse Spark, the first model from Superintelligence Labs
Snowflake
- May 29, 2026 — Snowflake targets AI agent adoption with AWS deal and Natoma acquisition
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Tesla
- August 7, 2026 — Anthropic loosens Claude Fable 5 biology guardrails while warning of bioweapon risk
- May 19, 2026 — Anthropic Closes $30B Round at $900B+ Valuation, Hires Karpathy for Pretraining
- May 2, 2026 — Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a humanoid robotics startup, in a move to accelerate its physical…
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xAI
- August 31, 2026 — OpenAI cuts off Cursor after SpaceX's $60 billion takeover
- August 20, 2026 — Grok Lite Sends Gibberish Responses Amid xAI Staff Turnover
- August 19, 2026 — SpaceX Reportedly Tried to Acquire Cognition — CEO Denies, Says "Not for Sale"
- August 15, 2026 — SpaceX closes $60B all-stock acquisition of Cursor
- July 8, 2026 — SpaceXAI (formerly xAI) and Cursor to ship their first joint frontier model “as soon as today”