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M&A activity in the AI industry. Acquisition news, mergers, and buyouts involving artificial intelligence companies.

Aug 23, 2026Hugging Face

Hugging Face Explores Sale That Could Value It Above $13 Billion

Hugging Face Explores Sale That Could Value It Above $13 Billion Hugging Face is reportedly exploring a potential sale of the company, with sources telling Business Insider the deal could value the AI...

Fortinet acquires Virtue AI's remaining team and IP, two months after Meta hired away its founders
Aug 23, 2026

Fortinet acquires Virtue AI's remaining team and IP, two months after Meta hired away its founders

Fortinet acquires Virtue AI's remaining team and IP, two months after Meta hired away its founders Fortinet, the cybersecurity vendor, acquired Virtue AI on August 17. Virtue AI is an AI-security star...

Cognition AI Rebuffs SpaceX Acquisition Approach After $60 Billion Cursor Deal
Aug 22, 2026Cognition AI

Cognition AI Rebuffs SpaceX Acquisition Approach After $60 Billion Cursor Deal

Cognition AI Rebuffs SpaceX Acquisition Approach After $60 Billion Cursor Deal SpaceX held acquisition talks with AI coding startup Cognition AI, maker of the autonomous coding agent Devin, according...

Rebellions Enters Early Talks With NVIDIA on a Potential Deal
Aug 22, 2026Rebellions

Rebellions Enters Early Talks With NVIDIA on a Potential Deal

Rebellions Enters Early Talks With NVIDIA on a Potential Deal NVIDIA is reportedly holding early discussions with South Korean NPU developer Rebellions on possible technology cooperation, an equity in...

Cognition Says It Is Not for Sale After Reported SpaceX Acquisition Outreach
Aug 20, 2026Cognition AI

Cognition Says It Is Not for Sale After Reported SpaceX Acquisition Outreach

Cognition Says It Is Not for Sale After Reported SpaceX Acquisition Outreach Sina Finance, republishing Cailianshe, reported that SpaceX had contacted AI coding startup Cognition about a possible acqu...

Stripe confirms $7.5B acquisition of OpenRouter, below earlier ~$10B reports
Aug 20, 2026OpenRouter

Stripe confirms $7.5B acquisition of OpenRouter, below earlier ~$10B reports

Stripe confirms $7.5B acquisition of OpenRouter, below earlier ~$10B reports Stripe confirmed Wednesday it is buying OpenRouter, the startup that lets developers route requests across AI models from m...

Day1 Company acquires SpaceY, launches DAY1 AI Deployment Company, hires ~100
Aug 20, 2026SpaceY

Day1 Company acquires SpaceY, launches DAY1 AI Deployment Company, hires ~100

Day1 Company acquires SpaceY, launches DAY1 AI Deployment Company, hires ~100 South Korean adult-education firm Day1 Company (데이원컴퍼니) is entering enterprise AI transformation (AX), launching DAY1 AI D...

Aug 18, 2026Rebellions

Rebellions acquires SqueezeBits in a comprehensive stock swap deal.

Rebellions acquires SqueezeBits in a comprehensive stock swap deal. South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions has acquired SqueezeBits, an AI inference optimization company, through a comprehensive stock...

Stripe reportedly finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model gateway startup, for mor...
Aug 18, 2026OpenRouter

Stripe reportedly finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model gateway startup, for mor...

Stripe reportedly finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model gateway startup, for more than $7 billion, according to reports from Sunday (Aug. 16). OpenRouter gives developers a single...

Aug 17, 2026OpenRouter

Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the AI model routing gateway that aggregates over 400 model...

Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the AI model routing gateway that aggregates over 400 models across 70-plus providers. Per the AI Market Watch index, OpenRouter was founded in 2023, has raise...

Anthropic is nearing a deal to acquire Israeli AI infrastructure startup Decart for about $7 billion...
Aug 16, 2026Decart AI

Anthropic is nearing a deal to acquire Israeli AI infrastructure startup Decart for about $7 billion...

Anthropic is nearing a deal to acquire Israeli AI infrastructure startup Decart for about $7 billion, beating out Nvidia, which had reportedly offered a higher valuation. According to Calcalist, Decar...

SpaceX has completed its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, according to an announ...
Aug 15, 2026Cursor

SpaceX has completed its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, according to an announ...

SpaceX has completed its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, according to an announcement made by Cursor on X (formerly Twitter) and confirmed by filings with the U.S. Securities and...

Tencent is set to become the largest shareholder of AI developer Manus, as Meta unwinds its acquisit...
Aug 14, 2026Manus

Tencent is set to become the largest shareholder of AI developer Manus, as Meta unwinds its acquisit...

Tencent is set to become the largest shareholder of AI developer Manus, as Meta unwinds its acquisition of the startup following Beijing's intervention. Tencent has been working with Manus' original i...

Day1 Company (데이원컴퍼니), a South Korean adult education content provider, has acquired SpaceY (스페이스와이)...
Aug 14, 2026SpaceY

Day1 Company (데이원컴퍼니), a South Korean adult education content provider, has acquired SpaceY (스페이스와이)...

Day1 Company (데이원컴퍼니), a South Korean adult education content provider, has acquired SpaceY (스페이스와이), an enterprise AI transformation (AX) startup, to broaden its AI business from training content int...

SpaceX has finalized its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, the AI coding tool, according to an anno...
Aug 14, 2026Cursor

SpaceX has finalized its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, the AI coding tool, according to an anno...

SpaceX has finalized its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, the AI coding tool, according to an announcement on Friday. The deal, which was first reported in July, makes Cursor a subsidiary of the aer...

NEURA acquires Bosch Rexroth ACTIVE Shuttle to build unified physical-AI stack.
Aug 13, 2026NEURA Robotics

NEURA acquires Bosch Rexroth ACTIVE Shuttle to build unified physical-AI stack.

NEURA acquires Bosch Rexroth ACTIVE Shuttle to build unified physical-AI stack. German robotics firm NEURA Mobile Robots GmbH announced it will absorb Bosch Rexroth's ACTIVE Shuttle driverless transpo...

Aug 13, 2026Graas

Graas, a Singapore-based AI startup, has raised $17 million and acquired Trustana to accelerate the...

Graas, a Singapore-based AI startup, has raised $17 million and acquired Trustana to accelerate the development of its retail AI agents. The company integrates product, customer, and inventory data to...

Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli AI infrastructure startup Decart for approximately...
Aug 13, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli AI infrastructure startup Decart for approximately...

Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli AI infrastructure startup Decart for approximately $6 billion, according to Bloomberg and Reuters, confirming an earlier Calcalist report. If complete...

Aug 12, 2026Manus

Meta will unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus AI after Beijing ordered the deal to be reverse...

Meta will unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus AI after Beijing ordered the deal to be reversed on national security grounds, according to a report from Tech in Asia. The move follows prior cove...

SpaceX is set to acquire Anysphere, the maker of the AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion, a deal...
Aug 9, 2026Anysphere

SpaceX is set to acquire Anysphere, the maker of the AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion, a deal...

SpaceX is set to acquire Anysphere, the maker of the AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion, a deal that will see the Cursor brand phased out in favor of Grok, according to The Information. Employees...