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Omen AI is acquiring rival Aquatic Labs for $16 million in cash and stock to combine their complementary real-time water-sensing technologies, aiming to cut water use and downtime at AI data centers.

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings, the holding company spun out of Thrive Capital, is acquiring ADT for about $7.6 billion in equity ($15.3 billion enterprise value) to build an AI-powered smart home security business, with OpenAI supplying models and forward-deployed engineers.

Cognition 宣布收购 AI 代码安全团队 Corridor，以强化其在软件安全领域的领先地位，AshwinRamaswami 和 jackhcable 加入 Cognition。

Joshua Kushner's Thrive Holdings is acquiring ADT in an all-cash deal valued at $7.6 billion, taking the home security company private in a move framed as bringing AI to traditional businesses.

Guidewire is acquiring AI underwriting startup hyperexponential for $1.7B in cash, potentially up to $2.1B, prompting concerns that more AI-driven pricing could raise consumer insurance rates.

Deepgram acquires Daily, maker of the popular open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, to strengthen its real-time voice AI infrastructure, while committing to keep Pipecat open-source and launching a new Real-Time Context Standard protocol for voice agents.

DoorDash announced plans to acquire Instacart, consolidating two major players in the on-demand delivery and grocery commerce space into a single company.

DoorDash announced it is acquiring Instacart for approximately $17 billion, expanding its grocery delivery presence and combining DashPass and Instacart Plus memberships, with the deal expected to close in late 2027 or early 2028.

Anthropic acquired Mithril Medicine, a biotech company with only one full-time employee, which relies on Claude and part-time consultants to drive drug development and is seen as an early sample of AI changing the way biopharma is organized.

Amazon announced a $11.57 billion deal to acquire satellite company Globalstar, a major move expanding its space and connectivity ambitions alongside Project Kuiper.

An analysis of why Google, despite its vast resources and AI expertise, has never attempted to acquire OpenAI and the strategic reasons behind it.

Anthropic acquired Mithril Medicine, a one-person biotech founded by Cody Tranbarger (aka @Prof_Oak_), to advance a 'Pipeline-in-a-Person' operating model using Claude to run multiple drug programs in parallel and scale AI across biopharma.

Mastercard acquires a stablecoin company for $1.8 billion, exploring whether the future of AI payments will move on-chain — though real on-chain payment volumes remain negligible compared to card networks.

CSS-Tricks 宣布脱离 DigitalOcean 重回独立运营，由长期撰稿人接手成为新任所有者，并计划通过广告、会员制和 HTML/CSS 新手课程等方式维持网站运营。

Bose announced it is acquiring lifestyle audio brand Skullcandy, which will operate as a separate company within Bose's Premium Consumer Audio business and remain based in Park City, Utah, building on their existing Sound by Bose licensing partnership.

Bose announced it has acquired Skullcandy, keeping it as a separate brand within its premium consumer audio business to expand the reach of its audio technologies like spatial audio and active noise cancellation to a wider audience.

Video analysis of NVIDIA's $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face — its largest acquisition ever, consolidating ecosystem control by acquiring the AI's "GitHub" in response to major customers developing their own chips to bypass NVIDIA.

OpenAI 收购了四年的 AI 生物科技软件初创公司 Orchestra Bio，以扩充其生物技术业务，团队与技术将并入 Rosalind 模型及 Rosalind Workbench 工具的开发。

Workday收购身份治理平台C1.ai，为员工与AI代理提供统一的访问生命周期管理；同时文章分析了Anthropic关于代理运行时长与初级技术岗位招聘下滑的数据方法论。

OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a platform for coordinating drug development workflows, and will integrate it with Rosalind, its AI models and tools for life sciences research, aiming to build AI agents that help biopharma teams advance medicines faster.