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LivePerson Stockholders Approve SoundHound AI Deal, Targeting a September 4 Close

The vote advances the proposed conversational-AI combination, while a notes restructuring and other closing conditions remain part of the path to completion.

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Yesterday

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21 hours ago

ALKU Buys rockITdata to Add AI Delivery Work and Federal Health Reach

The deal connects ALKU’s specialized talent business with a consulting firm built around AI, data and digital transformation. The strategic target is clear; the financial scale and client results are not.

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Acquisition Business

Yesterday

Palo Alto Networks Acquires Console After $3.41B Quarter to Add Cortex AI Agents

Console gives Palo Alto a workflow-building layer intended to turn natural-language goals into investigation and remediation steps. The completed quarter supports the security demand argument; the product outcome remains an integration test, with the deal price undisclosed.

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Acquisition Infrastructure

Yesterday

GoPro’s $285M Starman Merger Targets AI Data Centers, Keeps Cameras

Starman Optical’s transceivers are GoPro’s proposed bridge into data-center infrastructure, while shareholder payouts, debt repayment and the new ownership structure remain contingent on closing.

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Acquisition Business

Yesterday

Numa Buys SocketTime to Link Dealership AI With Live Shop Capacity

The purchase adds the operational records behind a service promise to Numa’s customer-communications system. Numa’s planned agents now face the harder job: coordinating work as repair orders change.

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Acquisition Business

Yesterday

Skipio Acquires RapidTalk to Bring AI Inquiry Handling Into Its Engagement Platform

The purchase puts conversational AI at the front of Skipio’s customer-engagement pitch: answering questions and qualifying leads before a business carries the relationship into later outreach.

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Earlier this week

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Acquisition Business

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.

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Acquisition Business

Aug 31, 2026

Deloitte Buys Wavicle Assets to Add Databricks Engineering to Its AI Practice

The asset purchase brings data and AI engineers with cross-cloud Databricks experience into Deloitte’s consulting organization. The intended payoff is faster, industry-specific AI deployment, though those customer results remain a future objective.

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Acquisition Infrastructure

Aug 31, 2026

OpenAI Reportedly Buys Tens of Thousands of Macs for Computer-Use Agent Training

The reported purchase points to dedicated capacity for agent training alongside GPU systems, while its cost and performance tradeoffs remain unclear.

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Last week

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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.

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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.

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Acquisition Business

Aug 27, 2026

Musk’s SpaceXAI Pairs Grok 4.6 With a $60B Cursor Plan, as Safety Concerns Persist

The merged business is building its model and coding footprint at scale, but recent misuse reports and a low external assessment put its safeguards under sharper scrutiny.

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Acquisition Business

Aug 26, 2026

Nvidia Reportedly Nears $13B Hugging Face Deal, but Accounts Differ on Agreement

The reported purchase would give Nvidia ownership of a platform for sharing AI models and hosting software. The price is broadly aligned across accounts; the deal’s status is not.

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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.

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Acquisition Business

Aug 24, 2026

WildBrain Buys Personality AI, With US$56 Million Tied to Future Revenue

The family-entertainment company is buying a maker of licensed conversational characters with a Peppa Pig product already on Amazon Kids+, while most potential cash payments depend on growth through 2029.

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Acquisition Business

Aug 24, 2026

Seismic Completes Highspot Merger as Its Survey Finds 9% Embed AI in Revenue Workflows

The newly combined company is tying its product strategy to a clear operational constraint: many revenue leaders say their existing tools are poorly connected.

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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.

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Acquisition Business

Aug 23, 2026

Stigg Buys Received.ai to Tie AI Usage Controls to the Invoice

The combined product is designed for negotiated usage deals that must carry contract dates, credits and pricing formulas into billing. The new capabilities are in public beta, with broader availability planned through 2026.

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