AI Acquisition Tracker

What we captured

Stigg announced the acquisition of Received.ai, bringing usage-based contract management and invoicing capabilities into Stigg’s runtime AI usage platform.

• • Stigg announced the acquisition on August 18, 2026.
• • Received.ai’s contract-management and invoicing technology is integrated into Stigg.
• • Received.ai founder and CTO Shai Betito joined Stigg as VP of Engineering.

Source evidence

Confidence 99% / Completeness 90%

What we captured

Fortinet has acquired Virtue AI; terms not disclosed and consideration described as immaterial to Fortinet’s business.

• • Article date: August 17, 2026
• • Fortinet acquired Virtue AI; financial terms undisclosed and described as immaterial
• • Integration planned into Fortinet AI-Native Security Fabric and expansion of Fortinet’s Security for AI strategy
• • Virtue AI capabilities: automated red-teaming, agent governance/visibility, continuous validation, real-time guardrails
• • Virtue AI tests agents across >50 sandboxed environments and 14 high-stakes domains; validation covers hundreds of attack vectors and >1,000 risk categories
• • Virtue AI can discover unsanctioned AI apps/agents, scan MCP tools and source code, monitor agent behavior and block malicious tool calls

Source evidence

Confidence 95% / Completeness 90%

What we captured

SpaceX has completed its acquisition of Cursor for $60 billion, per an announcement on Cursor's blog; the deal follows an option announced in April and was confirmed after SpaceX became publicly traded.

• • Cursor announced on its blog that SpaceX has officially closed its acquisition of Cursor.
• • The announcement stated the acquisition price as $60 billion and referenced an earlier April agreement giving SpaceX an option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion.
• • Cursor said joining SpaceX provides access to what it described as the largest fleet of GPUs in the world and positions Cursor to translate that compute into practical AI applications.
• • The confirmation of plans to move forward with the acquisition occurred two months after the April announcement, shortly after SpaceX became a publicly traded company.

Source evidence

Confidence 95% / Completeness 100%

What we captured

Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model gateway, for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg.

• • According to Bloomberg (reported by Quartz), Stripe finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion.
• • OpenRouter provides a single access point to more than 400 AI models and says it serves 8 million developers.
• • OpenRouter was founded in 2023 and is based in New York.
• • OpenRouter recently closed a $113 million Series B; the startup's investors include Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures, and CapitalG.
• • Article notes the final acquisition price could still change.

Source evidence

Confidence 92% / Completeness 100%

What we captured

SpaceX completed its acquisition of Anysphere for $60,000,000,000 USD; Anysphere became a wholly owned subsidiary of SpaceX and SPCX shares fell at market open.

• • coingape: 'SpaceX has officially completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor AI startup Anysphere.'
• • coingape: 'making Cursor a wholly owned subsidiary of the space company.'
• • coingape: 'The SPCX stock is down on the news, falling at the market open today.'
• • Article timestamp: 2026-08-15 12:17 UTC (coingape)

Source evidence

Confidence 85% / Completeness 100%

What we captured

SpaceX completed an all-stock acquisition of xAI; an August 14 SEC filing shows Nvidia's xAI shares converted into approximately 122.8 million SpaceX Class A shares.

• • Article states SpaceX acquired xAI in an all-stock deal.
• • August 14 SEC filing reported Nvidia holds ~122.8 million SpaceX Class A shares after the conversion.
• • The all-stock deal was described in the article as valued at roughly 1.25 trillion (currency not specified in source).

Source evidence

Confidence 90% / Completeness 97%

What we captured

Google LLC won a bankruptcy auction to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and operations records from Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc. for $10,000,000; a sale hearing is scheduled for Aug. 19.

• • Court notice dated Aug. 14 states Google won the bankruptcy auction for Spirit data.
• • $10,000,000 bid amount is listed in the court notice.
• • Assets include emails, Teams chats, passenger transaction and pricing records, and code/models.
• • Sale excludes personal passenger profiles and Free Spirit loyalty program records.
• • Mercor.io Corp. was named backup buyer with a $7.5 million offer.
• • A sale hearing is scheduled for Aug. 19 before Judge Sean Lane.

Source evidence

Confidence 90% / Completeness 100%

What we captured

SpaceX finalized an all-stock acquisition of Cursor (Anysphere, Inc.) valued at $60 billion on 2026-08-14; the deal brings Cursor into SpaceX's SpaceXAI division and gives it access to SpaceX's GPU infrastructure.

• • Acquirer: SpaceX
• • Target: Cursor (also known as Anysphere, Inc.)
• • Deal type: all-stock acquisition
• • Announced/Finalized date: 2026-08-14
• • Deal value disclosed: 60000000000 USD
• • Acquired company to be integrated into SpaceXAI division

Source evidence

Confidence 95% / Completeness 100%