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Aug 31, 2026

Imagenet Buys Analytica to Add Data Engineering and AI to Payer Operations

The purchase puts data engineering, governance and analytics beside Imagenet’s payer-administration workflows. The stated goal is to turn the resulting operational data into more useful intelligence without replacing clients’ core technology. Imagenet is positioning itself to do more with the operational data it handles for health-insurance payers, after it acquired Analytica Consulting.

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Acquisition Infrastructure

Aug 28, 2026

Anthropic Explored $7B MatX Deal, but Keeps a Multi-Chip Route to Custom Silicon

The abandoned acquisition talks point to a costly, slow effort to gain more control over the hardware that trains Claude, without abandoning outside chip suppliers. Anthropic reportedly considered buying AI-chip startup MatX for about $7 billion, then let the negotiations end. Reuters sources said Anthropic discussed an acquisition of MatX at roughly $7 billion.

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Acquisition Business

Aug 28, 2026

Nasuni Buys DryvIQ, Adds Governance Across 40-Plus Data Repositories

The deal joins file-data management with discovery, classification and policy enforcement. The remaining test is whether those controls work accurately on enterprise content and reach customers as a broadly adopted product. The company’s bet is that enterprises will want to classify and control unstructured files before those files are exposed to AI.

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Acquisition Business

Aug 26, 2026

Globus Medical Acquires Higgs Boson Health for Patient-Journey Surgical Intelligence

The deal gives Globus a planned route to connect patient and provider software with outcomes analytics, though its price, timing and eventual performance remain unknown. Globus Medical is positioning surgical intelligence as a system that follows patients before and after a procedure, not simply a feature used during one. Globus announced the acquisition August 26.

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August 2026

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Acquisition Business

Aug 23, 2026

Hugging Face Explores $13B Sale That Could Put Its Shared AI Hub Under One Owner

The early process tests whether a platform used across competing AI camps can retain its usefulness after becoming a strategic asset of one owner. Hugging Face has built a common place for developers to publish, find and adapt AI models. The company is exploring a potential sale and has hired a bank to assess buyer interest.

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Acquisition Business

Aug 19, 2026

Stripe’s OpenRouter Deal Puts AI Routing Beside the Billing Stack

The acquisition joins a model-selection layer to a payments relationship that already metered token use. OpenRouter’s stated independent operation leaves the post-close boundaries of that relationship unresolved. Stripe’s acquisition brings OpenRouter’s model-routing layer into the same company that already provides its payments infrastructure and helped build token billing.

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Acquisition Business

Aug 19, 2026

Oakley Buys Majority Stake in Graphwise as It Plans Expansion and Acquisitions

The price remains private, but the ownership change gives Graphwise capital and a mandate to broaden its commercial reach and consider selective deals in a fragmented semantic-technology market. Oakley Capital has taken a majority stake in Graphwise, a company building graph-database and semantic technology for enterprise AI. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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