MotherDuck Acquires Tower, the Startup Already Powering Its AI-Generated Data Pipelines
MotherDuck bought Tower Computing Inc., the runtime provider already powering its Flights feature for AI-built data pipelines.
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Meta Buys Assured Robot Intelligence, Doubling Down on an Android-Style Play for Humanoid Robots
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.
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Credo Acquires DustPhotonics for $750 Million, Bringing Silicon Photonics In-House as AI Data Center Optical Demand Surges
Credo Technology pays $750M cash plus stock for Israeli silicon photonics firm DustPhotonics, targeting $500M in combined optical revenue by fiscal 2027.
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IBM Closes $11 Billion Confluent Acquisition, Absorbing Apache Kafka's Commercial Steward Into Its AI Data Stack
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.
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OpenAI Acquires Astral, Absorbing Python's Most Popular Developer Tools Into Its Codex Platform
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.
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