Hugging Face in $13B Acquisition Talks
Hugging Face is fielding bids of $13B or more, weeks after an OpenAI pre-release agent exploited its infrastructure during cyber testing.
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Anthropic Pays $400M for a 10-Person Biotech Startup
Anthropic acquired Coefficient Bio — fewer than 10 employees, eight months old — for $400 million in stock. The play: making Claude the default AI for drug discovery.
IBM's $11B Confluent Acquisition Closes, Betting Data Streaming is the Foundation for AI Agents
With the largest tech acquisition of 2026 complete, IBM is positioning real-time data as the backbone of enterprise AI
Zendesk Acquires Forethought in Largest Deal in Two Decades
Enterprise software consolidation continues as Zendesk bets $115M+ AI startup can make human customer service agents obsolete
OpenAI Buys Promptfoo to Lock Down Enterprise AI Agents
The acquisition brings 25% Fortune 500 penetration and security testing that enterprises demand before deploying AI agents in production
Anthropic Buys Vercept: The Computer-Use Race Heats Up
The acquisition brings AI2 researchers to Claude as computer use performance hits human parity. UiPath's stock drops. The agentic AI race accelerates.