acquisitions

Fin.com has raised $20 million and completed 7 acquisitions in 12 months, providing global money movement services to over 825 million users through various fintech products like crypto payments and virtual accounts.

Kevin Naughton Jr. suggests we are in the golden age of building software due to increased speed and acquisition opportunities, but questions if this will last as knowledge democratizes and companies build more tools in-house.

Four recent updates in AI-agent payments: Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter, Natural's $100M credit facility for AI agents, Binance's launch of Agent OS, and Chainlink's emphasis on AI agents driving blockchain transactions, all addressing identity, budget, or routing.

The tweet discusses the significant acquisitions of Cursor for $60 billion and OpenRouter for approximately $8 billion, highlighting a16z's success and Martin Casado's reaction.

A roundup of AI developments where OpenAI and Zhipu released cyber-capable models, Meta returned to open weights, and various other releases and security issues were discussed.

Gergely Orosz pushes back on the claim that Google never built anything internally, citing Gmail, Google Docs, Google Cloud, and Waymo as internally-built billion-dollar businesses.

Gergely Orosz shares that engineering leads are migrating off Airtable due to expected price hikes from Bending Spoons, citing Harvest's 10x price increase as an example of their acquisition playbook.

India's Tata Consultancy Services plans to hire up to 8,900 AI deployment engineers and is seeking AI-related acquisitions to bolster its capabilities.

Bending Spoons, the Milan-based tech conglomerate that owns AOL and Vimeo, went public on Nasdaq with a $25 billion market cap. The company has grown through acquisitions and AI-driven monetization, reporting $1.31 billion revenue in 2025.

Qualcomm is aggressively expanding in AI through multiple acquisitions, including Modular (creator of Mojo and MAX inference framework) and potentially Tenstorrent, signaling a significant push against Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem.

In an exit interview, Bob Iger reveals that Disney nearly acquired Twitter, explored a merger with Apple, and failed to buy the James Bond franchise, highlighting missed opportunities during his tenure.

AI companies are on a buying spree, listing several massive acquisitions such as SpaceX acquiring xAI ($250B), Cursor ($60B), etc., emphasizing that talent matters more than technology.

New Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma and Xbox Studios chief Matt Booty have released a candid internal assessment detailing severe underperformance across Xbox, including low profit margins, overinvestment in acquisitions, and hardware supply chain issues, calling for a wholesale 'Xbox reset.'

Microsoft is quietly seeking to acquire or partner with AI startups like Inception and considered Cursor, as it builds redundancy beyond OpenAI after amending their exclusive contract.