Adobe Acquires Topaz Labs and Its Local AI Engine
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.
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Qualcomm Bets $14B to Shatter Nvidia's AI Lock-In
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 Acquires Cursor for $60B in Enterprise AI Push
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 Buys Fin for $3.6B to Boost Agentforce
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 Physics AI Shrinks Days of Simulation to Seconds
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 Buys Dominion for $67B on AI Power Demand
NextEra's $67B acquisition of Dominion creates the world's largest regulated utility to meet AI data center electricity demand.
Anthropic Acquires Stainless SDK Startup for $300M
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the SDK automation startup behind developer tooling used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare, for more than $300 million.
SAP Acquires Prior Labs in $1.16B European AI Push
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.
Cisco Buys Astrix for $400M to Lock Down AI Agent Keys
Cisco closes its $400M acquisition of Astrix Security, folding a non-human identity platform into Cisco Identity Intelligence to govern the API keys and OAuth tokens powering enterprise AI agents.
Nebius Buys Eigen AI for $643M to Own Inference
Nebius agrees to acquire 20-person MIT inference startup Eigen AI for $643M, betting that optimizing every token per Nvidia chip is the real moat in the AI infrastructure race.
China Blocks Meta's $2B Manus Deal - Founders Barred
China's NDRC ordered Meta to reverse its $2B Manus acquisition and barred the startup's founders from leaving China, ending the 'Singapore washing' strategy that let Chinese AI firms dodge Beijing oversight.
SpaceX Secures $60B Option to Acquire Cursor This Year
SpaceX disclosed a deal granting it the right to buy AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion in 2026, or pay $10 billion for shared development work, deepening Elon Musk's grip on the developer toolchain.
