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Argues that the most valuable robotics acquisition target is the company owning the best real-world manipulation dataset, as models converge but data remains scarce and concentrated among a few players.

Gergely Orosz reacts to reports that SpaceX will acquire Cursor for $60B and phase out the Cursor brand, contrasting it with xAI's controversial handling of user .env files.

AMD has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Toronto-based AI chip startup Taalas, which specializes in hardwiring AI models onto custom silicon for efficient inference. The deal aims to strengthen AMD's AI portfolio with differentiated inference performance and efficiency.

QuixiAI comments on Taalas Inc joining AMD, expressing hope that high-performance inference hardware becomes available to consumers rather than being reserved for data centers, quoting Taalas's acquisition announcement.

AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas, which etches model weights directly into silicon, promising order-of-magnitude inference performance boosts. The deal is seen as AMD's move to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI hardware.

Modular has joined Qualcomm, marking a significant milestone for MAX, Mojo, and its developer community, with a livestream AMA planned for Monday, 8/10.

Klaviyo has agreed to acquire AI-powered customer success startup Agency, with founder Elias Torres joining as chief product officer to advance Klaviyo's AI agents Composer and Customer Agent.

Electronic Arts has officially become a private company after a $55 billion acquisition by an investor group led by Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners; the deal is the largest leveraged buyout ever.

Fenng points out that Evernote and AOL have been acquired by Bending Spoons, and now they've acquired Airtable as well, finding this company quite interesting.

Bending Spoons has agreed to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the U.S. software firm at $1.285 billion, marking its first acquisition since its Nasdaq debut last month.

A tweet comments on Bending Spoons' planned $1.285B acquisition of Airtable, viewing it as a defeat and exit where investors may recoup some money but employees will likely be wiped out and laid off.

SpaceX is close to finalizing a deal to acquire 130,000 acres of marshland in southern Louisiana for future Starship launch operations, with the state expected to announce the agreement later this month.

Okta has agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso for nearly $200 million, aiming to bolster its capabilities in securing AI agents and machine identities as enterprises increasingly deploy autonomous software.

British AI neocloud Nscale acquires software startup Anyscale for $1.65 billion to strengthen its AI compute stack by adding workload management and scaling capabilities.

Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1 billion to protect AI agent identities, highlighting the growing cybersecurity market for AI threats.

The founders of Nalvin—Pontus, Fredrik, and Pascal—have joined Lovable, continuing Lovable's trend of attracting deep technical founder talent.

Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind Vite and Vue.js; a podcast discusses the acquisition's impact on JavaScript development, open-source sustainability, and developer experience.

Cloudflare announces acquisition of AI model platform Replicate, planning to integrate its 50,000+ open-source/commercial models and developer tools into its global network and Workers AI platform.

Stripe is in talks to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for roughly $10 billion, marking a major expansion beyond payments. OpenRouter allows developers to access and switch between multiple AI models, and the deal would follow Stripe's broader push into AI infrastructure and its separate bid for PayPal.

Midjourney has acquired the astrology app Co-Star, and its founder Banu Guler will become Midjourney's chief design officer to help build the company's first image generation app.