Acquisition

Amazon Acquires AI Wearable Startup Bee to Expand its Ambient Computing Ambitions

Bee produces a $49.99 bracelet and a companion Apple Watch app that records ambient audio to generate reminders and to-do lists.

Cognition Scores Windsurf After Mega-Deals With Google & OpenAI Fizzle

Windsurf brings $82 million in annual recurring revenue, boasts over 350 enterprise clients, and hundreds of thousands of daily users.

Meta Acquires Play AI to Power Next‑Gen Voice AI Across Its Platforms

The full Play AI team is expected to join Meta next week.

CoreWeave Buys Bitcoin Giant Core Scientific to Supercharge AI Data Centers

The merger, expected to close in Q4 2024, gives CoreWeave access to over 1.2 GW of power capacity.

Apple Top Exec Considers Buying Perplexity

Perplexity’s price tag would dwarf Apple’s $3 billion Beats deal from 2014.

Netgear Acquires Indian Cybersecurity Startup Exium to Boost Services for MSPs

Exium’s products and expertise will help to add an integrated Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform to NETGEAR’s robust network offering.

AMD Acquires AI Startup Brium to Challenge Nvidia’s Dominance

Brium specialises in optimising machine learning applications for inference—the process of running trained AI models—across diverse hardware platforms.