acquisitions

Reports on Meta's Conductor, Factory's HumanLayer and OpenAI's planned Pierre Computer deal describe different terms for users; the May 2026 Stainless shutdown shows what two customers did after a hosted service closed.

MotherDuck bought Tower Computing Inc., the runtime provider already powering its Flights feature for AI-built data pipelines.

Meta acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence on May 1, 2026, folding cofounders Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang into Superintelligence Labs as it tries to become the operating-system layer for the humanoid race.

Credo Technology pays $750M cash plus stock for Israeli silicon photonics firm DustPhotonics, targeting $500M in combined optical revenue by fiscal 2027.

IBM completed its largest acquisition since Red Hat, buying data streaming company Confluent for $31 per share and delisting it from Nasdaq as it bets on real-time data as the backbone of enterprise AI.

OpenAI will acquire Astral, the startup behind uv, Ruff, and ty, folding critical Python infrastructure into Codex as AI coding platforms race to own developer toolchains.