M&A News
Mergers, acquisitions, and corporate buyouts in the robotics and technology industry.
- SoftBank In Talks For Majority Stake In 1X At $6 Billion Valuation — — SoftBank is negotiating to buy a majority stake in OpenAI-backed humanoid maker 1X Technologies at a roughly $6 billion valuation, a 40% haircut from...
- NEURA Robotics Buys ADLATUS To Bring Physical AI To Cleaning Robots — — NEURA Mobile Robots takes 100% of Ulm-based ADLATUS Robotics, adding hundreds of deployed cleaning robots to the Neuraverse Physical AI platform.
- Nvidia In Early Talks With South Korea's Rebellions For Deal Or Buyout — — Jensen Huang met Rebellions CEO Sunghyun Park at Nvidia HQ to discuss investment, partnership or acquisition of the $2.3B Korean AI inference chip sta...
- DoiT Buys Israeli Startup Attribute For ~$65M To Chase AI Tokenomics — — Cloud optimization firm DoiT has acquired Israeli startup Attribute in a deal estimated at roughly $65 million to give enterprises kernel-level visibi...
- OpenAI Absorbs NextSlide To Bring Prompt-To-Presentation Into ChatGPT — — OpenAI has quietly acquired NextSlide, a startup that turned prompts, notes and documents into polished editable decks, folding its team into the Chat...
- Teledyne To Buy Varex Imaging For $1.1B, Deepening Its X-Ray Portfolio — — Teledyne Technologies has agreed to acquire NASDAQ-listed Varex Imaging in an all-cash $1.1 billion deal that adds X-ray tubes and photon-counting det...
- Stripe Buys AI Router OpenRouter For Over $7B, 5x Its May Valuation — — Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, valuing the AI model gateway at more than five times its price only three...
- SpaceX Closes Record $60B All-Stock Buy Of AI Coding Startup Cursor — — SpaceX has completed its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor developer Anysphere, folding the AI coding startup into a new SpaceXAI division p...
- Diodes To Buy ElevATE Semiconductor For $250M Cash To Bulk Up ATE Chip Lineup — — Diodes Incorporated will buy San Diego fabless test-chip designer ElevATE Semiconductor for $250M in all-cash to expand its analog and mixed-signal li...
- Manus Returns To Independence As China Forces Meta Deal Unwind — — Butterfly Effect's Manus AI agent will return to operating independently after China ordered Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition of the Singapore-domic...
- Anthropic In Talks To Buy Decart For $6 Billion In Largest-Ever AI Infra Deal — — Anthropic is negotiating to buy Israeli inference-optimization and world-model startup Decart AI for roughly $6 billion — what would be the Claude mak...
- Archer Buys Boeing's Wisk, SkyGrid And Insitu For A 20% Equity Stake — — Boeing sells Wisk Aero, SkyGrid and Insitu to Archer Aviation for a ~20% pre-close equity stake, consolidating the eVTOL sector.
- Bank Of America To Acquire UK Cyber Consultancy MDSec To Boost Global Defenses — — Bank of America plans to acquire Macclesfield-based MDSec Consulting, one of the UK's best-known offensive-security firms, to reinforce its global cyb...
- Visa Strikes $2.4B Deal To Buy Behavioral Biometrics Pioneer BioCatch From Permira — — Visa is paying $2.4B in cash to acquire BioCatch from Permira, bolting Israeli-invented behavioral biometrics onto its fraud, risk and cybersecurity s...
- OpenAI Quietly Scoops Up AI-Presentation Startup NextSlide, Team Now On ChatGPT — — Founder Ahmed Beshry — a Caper AI alumnus — revealed on LinkedIn that his prompts-to-slides startup NextSlide was actually acquired by OpenAI earlier...
- AMD Buys Taalas To Etch AI Models Directly Into Silicon — — AMD agreed to acquire Toronto's Taalas, a startup that hardwires AI model weights directly into CMOS logic, to bolster its Instinct-powered inference...
- Anaconda Acquires Enkrypt AI to Secure Enterprise Agents — — Anaconda has acquired AI security startup Enkrypt AI to embed pre-deployment red-teaming, runtime guardrails and NIST/EU AI Act compliance automation...
- AE Industrial Closes $845M L3Harris Carve-Out To Relaunch Rocketdyne — — AE Industrial Partners closed its $845M acquisition of L3Harris' commercial space propulsion, power and electronics units on August 4, spinning them o...
- Instacart Buys Arpalus To Wire Real-Time Shelf Intelligence Into Its Physical AI Stack — — Instacart acquires Israeli shelf-vision startup Arpalus to give its 600,000 shoppers, Store View and Caper Carts a real-time picture of what is actual...
- Everseen Buys RadiusAI's Viztel To Extend Vision AI Beyond Retail Checkout — — Vision AI vendor Everseen acquires the Viztel portfolio from RadiusAI, folding in founder Bobby Chowdary and extending its Vision AI platform from che...