PayPal Leaves Room for a Higher Bid After Stronger Results
CEO Enrique Lores said the payments company would consider an alternative that creates more shareholder value than its current turnaround plan.
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eBay and Former Executives Agree to $56 Million Cyberstalking Settlement
The payment resolves a civil case brought by EcommerceBytes writers Ina and David Steiner over a 2019 harassment campaign.
Midjourney Acquires Astrology App Co-Star
The image-generation company is adding a consumer product team as it prepares standalone applications.
Elastic Agrees to Acquire Deductive AI
The observability company is adding an AI investigation system for production incidents.
Whatnot Acquires Shaped for Real-Time Shopping Recommendations
The live-commerce marketplace is forming an applied AI research group around Shaped's ranking technology.
DeepL Acquires Mixhalo and Opens Silicon Valley Office
The translation company is combining voice AI with ultra-low-latency audio for events and meetings.
SpaceX Agrees to Buy Cursor Maker Anysphere
Elon Musk's rocket company will pay $60 billion in stock for the AI coding startup, days after its record-setting IPO.
Salesforce Agrees to Buy Fin for $3.6 Billion
The planned acquisition would add a fast-growing customer-service agent to Agentforce.
Meta Begins Unwinding Its $2 Billion Manus Acquisition
The operational separation follows a Chinese order that turned a strategic AI deal into a cross-border test.
Waymo Buys Apple's Former Vehicle Test Site for $220 Million
The 5,458-acre Arizona proving ground was the centerpiece of Apple's abandoned car program. Waymo paid nearly double what Apple did in 2021.
OpenAI Files Confidentially for a U.S. Initial Public Offering
The ChatGPT maker joined Anthropic in a high-stakes race to bring frontier AI companies to public markets.
Anthropic Confidentially Files for U.S. IPO
The Claude developer moved ahead of OpenAI as frontier AI companies prepare for public scrutiny.
Anthropic-Backed Services Venture Acquires Fractional AI
The applied engineering firm will become the operating core of a new enterprise AI implementation company.
Google DeepMind Licenses Contextual AI Technology and Hires Researchers
The $80 million to $90 million arrangement moves more than 20 employees without a formal company purchase.
Anthropic Acquires Developer-Tools Startup Stainless
The deal brings widely used SDK and MCP-server infrastructure inside the Claude platform.
Augment Acquires Merlin to Expand Supply Chain AI
The all-equity deal brings wholesale-distribution expertise into Augment's AI operations platform.
Sanas Acquires Real-Time Voice Startup Tomato.ai
The speech-technology company is expanding its ability to embed voice transformation into communications systems.
OpenAI Acquires Personal Finance Startup Hiro
The small acquihire adds financial-planning product experience while Hiro prepares to close its consumer service.
OpenAI Acquires Technology Talk Show TBPN
The unusual media purchase gives OpenAI a daily program with a large audience across technology and finance.
Meta Acquires AI-Agent Network Moltbook
The viral forum's founders are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs after a brief and controversial rise.
Harbinger Acquires Autonomous Driving Company Phantom AI
The commercial vehicle maker gains driver-assistance software and a new licensing relationship with ZF.
