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Minute Media's purchase of AI video startup VideoVerse fell apart after the deal closed, and three separate Delaware lawsuits now accuse founder Vinayak Shrivastav of forging signatures to extract tens of millions.
OpenAI has quietly folded presentation startup NextSlide into ChatGPT, its latest undisclosed acqui-hire in a pattern that now spans hardware, security testing, fintech, and media.
Cyera will pay about $1 billion for Oasis Security, its fifth 2026 acquisition, as enterprises scramble to manage the credentials of AI agents outnumbering human employees 45 to 1.
Cognition paid a low nine-figure sum for texting assistant Poke, its second acquisition in a year, betting that how an AI agent talks matters as much as what it can do.
Adobe's deal to buy Topaz Labs is less about upscaling filters and more about NeuroStream, the on-device inference engine that runs large AI video models on consumer RTX GPUs.
Qualcomm confirmed a $3.9B acquisition of AI software startup Modular and is in advanced talks to buy RISC-V chip designer Tenstorrent for up to $10B, betting that open hardware and a portable compiler can dislodge Nvidia from the data center.
SpaceX signed a merger agreement to acquire Anysphere, maker of AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion in stock just four days after the company's record-breaking Nasdaq IPO.
Salesforce agrees to pay $3.6 billion for Fin, the AI customer service agent formerly known as Intercom, adding a proprietary model and 30,000 customers to Agentforce.
Mistral acquired Vienna-based Emmi AI and launched Physics AI - models that replace multi-day engineering simulations with seconds of inference on a single GPU.
NextEra's $67B acquisition of Dominion creates the world's largest regulated utility to meet AI data center electricity demand.
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the SDK automation startup behind developer tooling used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare, for more than $300 million.
SAP buys German tabular AI startup Prior Labs and commits €1B to build Europe's first frontier AI lab, while also acquiring data lakehouse Dremio in a two-front push on structured enterprise data.
