Acquisition News
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M&A activity in the AI industry. Acquisition news, mergers, and buyouts involving artificial intelligence companies.
MGX explores multi-billion acquisition of Singapore-based data centre operator DayOne
Abu Dhabi-backed AI investor MGX is weighing a multi-billion-dollar acquisition of DayOne, a Singapore-based data centre operator affiliated with China's GDS Holdings, according to sources familiar wi...
Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic
John Jumper, the Nobel Prize-winning AI researcher who led development of the open-source protein-folding model AlphaFold at Google DeepMind, has announced he is leaving the company to join Anthropic....
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind the AI code editor Cursor, in a $60 billi...
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind the AI code editor Cursor, in a $60 billion all-stock transaction. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026, after which An...
SpaceX agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor, the company behind the popular AI coding assistan...
SpaceX agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor, the company behind the popular AI coding assistant, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal expected to close in Q3 2026. Why it matters: This acquisiti...
Upstage Acquires Daum and Timely, Becomes Comprehensive AI Platform Company
South Korean AI unicorn Upstage (업스테이지) announced at a press conference on June 16 that it has acquired portal Daum (다음) and general-purpose AI agent platform Timely (타임리), merging them with its own S...
Qualcomm Pursues $8-10B Acquisition of Tenstorrent to Enter Data Center AI Chip Market
Qualcomm is in advanced acquisition negotiations with AI chip startup Tenstorrent at a valuation of $8-10 billion (approximately 12-15 trillion won), according to The Information. The deal would far e...
Qualcomm in talks to acquire Tenstorrent for up to $10 billion, gaining Jim Keller’s AI chip team. Q...
Qualcomm in talks to acquire Tenstorrent for up to $10 billion, gaining Jim Keller’s AI chip team. Qualcomm is negotiating to acquire AI chip startup Tenstorrent for $8 billion to $10 billion, a massi...
SpaceX acquires Anysphere, maker of Cursor AI coding agent, for $60B in stock
SpaceX announced an all-stock acquisition of Anysphere, the developer of the widely adopted AI coding agent Cursor, for $60 billion. The deal aims to bolster SpaceX's enterprise AI capabilities and es...
SpaceX acquires Cursor for $60B in stock days after historic IPO, doubling down on AI coding.
SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in stock, just days after the space company’s record-breaking IPO and less than two months after announcing a tie-up with the star...
Rimfeed AI, a South Korean pet healthcare startup, acquires AI video analysis company PetPeoTalk (펫페...
Rimfeed AI, a South Korean pet healthcare startup, acquires AI video analysis company PetPeoTalk (펫페오톡) for 100% stake; founder Kwan Ryun-hwan joins as CTO. PetPeoTalk operates DogiBogi, an AI pet-cam...
Meta acquired Rivos last year to accelerate AI chip push, but integration challenges persist.
Meta acquired semiconductor startup Rivos last year as part of its ongoing effort to develop in-house AI chips and reduce dependence on Nvidia. The acquisition, reported by The Information, is intende...
Upstage acquires AI agent platform Timely to expand into consumer market
Korean AI company Upstage (업스테이지) has acquired Timely, an AI agent platform startup, in a move to broaden its reach beyond enterprise customers into the general consumer market. Timely operates Timely...
Edafa Venture acquires Kuadra and IRRI Vision in six-figure AI deals
Edafa Venture has acquired two AI startups, Kuadra and IRRI Vision, in six-figure dollar transactions announced during the AI Everything Middle East & Africa – Egypt 2026 exhibition in Cairo. Kuadra d...
Nvidia acquires Kumo AI to bolster predictive foundation model capabilities
Nvidia has acquired Kumo AI, a four-year-old startup specializing in foundation models for business prediction, according to sources familiar with the deal. Kumo's three co-founders—Vanja Josifovski,...
Kurly Acquires 1Z Labs to Accelerate AI Transformation
South Korean e-commerce company Kurly (컬리) has acquired 100% of AI solutions firm 1Z Labs (원지랩스) via a small-scale stock swap, according to a regulatory filing on June 1, 2026. The exchange ratio is s...
Autodesk agrees to buy MaintainX for $3.6 billion in all-cash deal.
Autodesk has agreed to acquire MaintainX, an AI-powered maintenance and operations workflow platform, for $3.6 billion in an all-cash transaction, as reported by SFist. Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost to...
Snowflake acquires Natoma to govern AI agent connections across enterprise systems.
Snowflake has acquired Natoma, an enterprise MCP (Model Context Protocol) platform startup that provides security, governance, and auditing for AI agent connections to SaaS applications, cloud infrast...
Ubase acquires voice AI startup ReturnZero to accelerate AI BPO transformation
South Korean BPO (business process outsourcing) leader Ubase Group has acquired ReturnZero, a voice AI specialist with real-time STT technology and 30 patents. The deal, signed on May 26 in Seoul, add...
Amdocs expands AI ambitions through acquisition of Israeli startup Yess
Telecom software giant Amdocs has acquired Yess, an Israeli startup founded in 2023 that builds autonomous AI agent systems for enterprise customers. The entire 13-person founding and development team...
Blackstone-Anthropic joint venture acquires AI startup Fractional
A joint venture between private equity giant Blackstone and AI lab Anthropic has acquired Fractional, a U.S.-based AI startup. The deal was reported by Tech in Asia, though financial terms and Fractio...