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EA shareholders approved the $55B PIF-led acquisition in late December; Canadian union CWA Canada has urged Ottawa to review the deal under the Investment Canada Act.

Locus Robotics buys Vancouver-based Nexera Robotics, adding NeuraGrasp's patented soft-membrane gripper to its Locus Array autonomous fulfillment system.

Eli Lilly acquired Engage Bio and its Tethosome non-viral DNA delivery platform for up to $202 million, aiming to overcome the immune and redosing limits of viral gene therapies.

The deal, announced May 4, brings the Israeli non-human-identity startup into Cisco's security platform alongside Identity Intelligence, Duo, Secure Access, and Splunk.

OpenAI has acquired Hiro, a five-month-old AI personal finance startup founded by Digit veteran Ethan Bloch, in an acqui-hire that will shut down the product on April 20.

MariaDB will merge its relational database with GridGain's in-memory computing platform to target latency-sensitive agentic AI workloads, marking the company's third acquisition in nine months under private equity ownership.