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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.

A viral tweet describes a business model where someone scrapes the App Store for abandoned apps with 50k+ downloads and no updates in 18+ months, buys them for $2-3k cash, hires Filipino developers to update and monetize them, earning $3.6M/year. The original tweeter wants to interview this person.

eBay rejected GameStop's $56 billion takeover offer, calling it not credible, as the video game retailer attempts to expand its business.

Coursera and Udemy have officially merged to become one company, consolidating two major players in the online education technology sector.

OpenAI has agreed to acquire Tomoro, bringing 150 experienced Forward Deployed Engineers and Deployment Specialists to the OpenAI Deployment Company.

OpenAI announces the launch of the OpenAI Deployment Company, a new entity backed by over $4 billion in investment to help enterprises deploy frontier AI systems. The initiative includes the acquisition of consulting firm Tomoro and partnerships with 19 major investment and consulting firms.

OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company, a new business unit backed by $4 billion and the acquisition of Tomoro, to help enterprises deploy AI systems via specialized engineers.

IREN acquires Mirantis for $625 million to integrate its cloud-native Kubernetes and AI infrastructure software into IREN's data centers, aiming to offer a full AI cloud platform.

SpaceX is partnering with Cursor to build advanced AI for coding and knowledge work, with an option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion later this year.

Cursor has been acquired by SpaceX, marking a strategic exit as it recognized it couldn’t compete with Anthropic.

SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI coding editor startup Cursor for $60 billion, marking one of the largest AI-tool acquisitions to date.

A 20-year-old U.S. student built millimeter-accurate motion-capture hardware with $3 in parts and Claude Code overnight, then sold the project for $230k a week later.

OpenAI has acquired TBPN, a media platform focused on AI and tech industry conversation, to strengthen its communications strategy and help convey AI's impact to broader audiences. The acquisition preserves TBPN's editorial independence while bringing their communications and marketing expertise into OpenAI's Strategy organization.

OpenAI announced its acquisition of Astral, a company behind widely-used open source Python developer tools including uv, Ruff, and ty, to integrate their tools with Codex and enhance AI-powered software development workflows. The acquisition aims to accelerate Codex's capabilities to assist developers across the entire development lifecycle.

OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security platform used by over 25% of Fortune 500 companies, to integrate security testing and evaluation capabilities into OpenAI Frontier for building AI agents. The acquisition will enhance enterprise capabilities for identifying vulnerabilities, compliance, and governance in AI systems.

OpenAI has agreed to acquire neptune.ai, a platform for experiment tracking and model monitoring, to strengthen its research infrastructure and improve visibility into how frontier models learn during training.

OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Incorporated, the maker of Sky, a natural language AI interface for Mac that can understand screen context and take actions in apps. Sky's macOS integration and team will be folded into ChatGPT to enhance its ability to help users get things done on their computers.