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Rocket Lab agreed to buy satellite operator Iridium for $54 a share, an $8 billion deal that would let it build, launch, and operate its own constellations.

Reports say Qualcomm is examining a full acquisition of Tenstorrent, the RISC-V AI accelerator startup led by Jim Keller, at a valuation between $8 billion and $10 billion.

Qualcomm agreed to acquire Modular in an all-stock deal worth about $3.9 billion, expected to close in the second half of 2026.

EA cut an undisclosed number of jobs in customer support, IT, recruitment, and trust and safety across US remote roles and its Hyderabad office, its third layoff round of 2026 as the PIF-led buyout closes in.

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.