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OpenAI announces the acquisition of Ona, a company specializing in secure cloud execution and orchestration, to enhance the Codex platform's persistent agent capabilities for enterprise workflows.
Warner Music Group acquires Sureel AI, an AI attribution startup that uses 'AI DNA' technology to trace how AI models use songs, aiming to better protect artists' intellectual property.
A personal essay reflecting on Yahoo's 2009 acquisition of the Arab portal Maktoob, which led to the demise of its vibrant forums and the loss of a unique cultural record of early Arab internet life, as Yahoo prioritized monetizing email accounts.
Evan You, creator of Vue.js and Vite, thanks his team, investors, and the Vite community as VoidZero is acquired by Cloudflare. He expresses gratitude for the journey and looks forward to continuing open development with Cloudflare.
Cloudflare is acquiring VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, and Oxc, with all team members joining Cloudflare. The tools will remain open source, vendor-agnostic, and community-driven, and Cloudflare is committing $1 million to a Vite ecosystem fund.
SwitchBot's parent company OneRobotics acquires Nanoleaf for $40 million, aiming to combine resources and expand into AI and robotics.
Accenture acquires Ookla, owner of Downdetector and Speedtest, for $1.2 billion to leverage its network data for AI and enterprise services.
A developer gave up Google DeepMind acquisition equity and left voluntarily. He joined Codeium two years ago, developed the Windsurf product and trained the programming model SWE-1. The company was then acquired by DeepMind for $240 million, but he chose to resign.
Anthropic's new consulting venture has acquired Fractional AI to serve as its operational centerpiece, marking its first acquisition.
Manus is seeking $1 billion in funding to unwind its acquisition by Meta after Chinese regulators ordered the reversal, a highly unusual move for a completed deal.
Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI to create the leading AI stack for industrial engineering, combining Mistral's platform with Emmi's Physics AI models to accelerate simulation and engineering workflows in sectors like energy, automotive, and aerospace.
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, an SDK generation pipeline company that is used by both OpenAI and Gemini and also possesses the most mature MCP Server tool stack. This move allows Anthropic to simultaneously control the MCP protocol and the mainstream implementation toolchain, potentially affecting competitors' willingness to participate.
Anthropic acquires Stainless, a tool that turns API specs into SDKs, following its earlier acquisition of Bun. The moves signal a strategy of vertical integration of the AI development stack, raising questions about lock-in for builders.
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the startup that provides SDKs for the Claude API, aiming to improve developer experience. The acquisition was officially announced on May 18.
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, a dev tools startup that provides automated SDK generation, for over $300 million. The deal will make Stainless's tools exclusive to Anthropic, potentially impacting competitors like OpenAI and Google.
Anthropic acquires Stainless, a leader in SDK and MCP server tooling, to improve Claude's ability to connect to data and tools.
Anthropic acquires Stainless, an SDK and MCP server platform that has powered every Anthropic SDK since the early days, to improve Claude's connectivity to data and tools for agent capabilities.
OpenAI quietly acquired voice-cloning startup Weights.gg and absorbed its six-person team, likely to remove the public catalog of unauthorized celebrity voices while keeping its own Voice Engine restricted on safety grounds.
Publicis Groupe acquires LiveRamp, a data collaboration platform, for $2.5 billion to enhance its agentic AI and data co-creation capabilities for clients.
Snapchat paid $150 million for Looksery, a deep learning computer vision startup. A free MIT lecture teaches building neural networks from scratch.