OpenAI Buys TBPN in Its First Media Acquisition
OpenAI pays low hundreds of millions for TBPN, an 11-person tech talk show with 70,000 daily viewers - placing it under the company's chief political operative ahead of its IPO.
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Anthropic Pays $400M for AI Drug Discovery Startup
Anthropic acquires Coefficient Bio, an eight-month-old stealth startup with fewer than ten employees, in a $400M all-stock deal to push into pharmaceutical AI.
OpenAI Acquires Astral - uv and Ruff Join Codex
OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the startup behind Python's dominant uv package manager and Ruff linter, folding critical developer infrastructure into its Codex coding agent team.
Thinking Machines Lands Gigawatt Compute from Nvidia
Nvidia commits a gigawatt of Vera Rubin chips to Mira Murati's startup, a supply the FT values at tens of billions of dollars, alongside an undisclosed cash investment.
Meta Buys Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Agents
Meta acquires the viral AI-only social network Moltbook, bringing its founders into Meta Superintelligence Labs as the company races to build agent infrastructure.
Nvidia Rules Out $100B OpenAI Bet as IPO Nears
Jensen Huang confirmed Nvidia's $30B OpenAI investment will likely be its last direct equity stake, killing the $100B pledge as OpenAI races toward a public listing at a $730B valuation.
Meta's $100B AMD Bet Is a Direct Shot at Nvidia
Meta and AMD signed a 6-gigawatt, multi-year GPU pact worth up to $100B - announced days after a separate Nvidia expansion, signaling Meta's deliberate strategy to break single-vendor dependence in AI compute.
Bezos Eyes Tens of Billions to Remake Manufacturing With AI
Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus is raising tens of billions through a manufacturing transformation vehicle to acquire industrial companies and rebuild them with AI.
Anthropic Acquires Vercept to Supercharge Claude's Computer Use - UiPath Stock Drops 3.6%
Anthropic acquires Seattle startup Vercept and its nine-person team of Allen Institute for AI alumni, folding their vision-based desktop automation into Claude as computer use scores hit 72.5% on OSWorld.
Google Acquires ProducerAI - The Riffusion Successor That Hit 1 Million Users
Google acquires AI music startup ProducerAI (formerly Riffusion) and folds its team into Google Labs and DeepMind, pairing the platform with Lyria 3 to compete with Suno in the AI music generation market.
SpaceX Swallows xAI in $1.25 Trillion Merger, Files Plans for a Million Orbital Data Centers
Elon Musk merges SpaceX and xAI in the largest merger of all time, valued at $1.25 trillion, with plans for orbital AI data centers and a mid-2026 IPO that could raise $50 billion.
Hugging Face Absorbs llama.cpp Creator in Bid to Own the Local AI Stack
Georgi Gerganov's ggml.ai joins Hugging Face, bringing the most important local inference project under the $13.5 billion AI platform's umbrella.
