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AI Acquisitions & M&A

Articles on AI startups acquired by major technology companies, M&A trends in artificial intelligence, and strategic acquisitions shaping the AI landscape

ai acquisitions m a1 week ago4 min

ServiceNow Acquires Passage AI to Boost Multilingual Chatbot Capabilities

ServiceNow announced acquisition of Passage AI, a conversational AI startup that enables multilingual chatbot development, less than a week after acquiring Loom Systems

ai acquisitions m a1 week ago4 min

Grammarly Snags Coda, Taps Shishir Mehrotra as New CEO

Grammarly announced its acquisition of Coda, naming Shishir Mehrotra as CEO and outlining a vision to blend Coda Docs with its AI assistant into an AI productivity platform.

ai acquisitions m a3 weeks ago5 min

Hugging Face at the Center of Open-Weight AI Acquisitions and Ecosystem Shift

TechCrunch article examining Hugging Face's position as a top acquisition target in the open-weight AI sector, Nvidia's reported $13B interest, and broader market moves by Poolside and Stripe OpenRouter acquisition.

ai acquisitions m aAug 9, 20264 min

Klaviyo Closes Acquisition of Agency, Elevates Founder Elias Torres to CPO

Klaviyo acquires Agency, an AI customer success startup founded by Elias Torres, for undisclosed terms. Torres becomes CPO, leading a 25-person team to accelerate Klaviyo's AI agent products, Composer and Customer Agent.

ai acquisitions m aAug 8, 20266 min

AI Developer Tools, Startups, and India Investments: Why Revenue Is Growing Faster Than LLM Cost

Multiple AI startups are hitting revenue milestones at breakneck speed — but the real story is what's happening to cloud cost as they scale. A deep look at how AI developer tools, startups, and India investments are reshaping the economics of LLM cost.

ai acquisitions m aAug 6, 20265 min

SambaNova Secures $1 Billion at $11 Billion Valuation as Enterprise Inference Demand Surges

AI chip maker SambaNova closes $1B Series F first round led by General Atlantic, just months after Intel abandoned rumored $1.6B acquisition talks; adds JPMorganChase as inference partner and prepares SN50 chip shipments.

ai acquisitions m aAug 6, 20263 min

The Electric Truck Wars: Analyzing Ford and GM's Diverging EV Strategies

A look into how Ford and GM are leveraging their heritage to compete for dominance in the newly electrified American pickup market, with distinct strategic approaches.

ai acquisitions m aAug 5, 20266 min

Beyond the Lens: How Even Realities Secured $150M to Re-engineer Smart Glasses Without Cameras

Even Realities, an ex-Apple engineering team, just secured a $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan and Tencent at a $1B valuation to double down on display-first, camera-free smart glasses with proprietary optics and ring-gesture controls.

ai acquisitions m aJul 24, 20265 min

Where AI Developer Tools, India's Startup Bet, and Enterprise Infrastructure Collide

The race to build the most capable AI model is giving way to a more consequential competition: who builds the infrastructure that turns intelligence into reliable enterprise execution.

ai acquisitions m aJul 18, 20264 min

Red Hat Offers RHEL Support 'Forever' for Enterprises Locked Into Legacy Infrastructure

Red Hat has launched "The Long-Life Add-On" providing indefinite support for older RHEL versions, enabling enterprises to synchronize software lifecycles with hardware investments and regulatory timelines without forced upgrades.

ai acquisitions m aJul 18, 20264 min

Beyond Titles: Rethinking the 'Software Engineer' Definition

Challenging traditional academic distinctions in the tech industry regarding the role of formal credentials versus practical skill in software engineering.

ai acquisitions m aJul 17, 20266 min

OpenAI Buries the Standalone Atlas Browser, Merges Its Brains into a Workspace OS

OpenAI has killed its standalone AI browser experiment after just ten months — and instead of scrapping the tech, it’s folding Atlas into a single desktop app that aims to replace your entire productivity stack.