Acquisitions

OpenAI said on November 4 it will acquire Pierre Computer, maker of Code Storage and the Trees and Diffs libraries used in Codex; terms were not disclosed and closing needs regulatory approvals.

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.

EDB announced the acquisition of Altinity on November 5, 2026; terms were not disclosed, integrated ClickHouse offerings are planned for Q4 2026, and two analysts quoted by TechTarget say integration work remains.

ClickHouse acquired security data platform RunReveal, folding in-house the expertise behind a product already built on its own database.

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

Amazon will acquire the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB, but not the open-source project itself, which stays MIT-licensed under the independent DuckDB Foundation.

Dash0 buys Berlin's Polar Signals to bring CUDA-aware continuous profiling and a new storage engine into its OpenTelemetry-native observability platform.

Scott Wu says Cognition is "not for sale" after Bloomberg reported SpaceX approached the Devin maker days after closing its $60 billion Cursor deal.

SpaceX completed its all-stock acquisition of AI coding tool Cursor on August 14, giving the startup access to SpaceX's GPU fleet.

Honeywell is divesting its Warehouse and Workflow Solutions unit, built on Intelligrated and Transnorm, to private equity firm AIP as it concludes a multi-year breakup.

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.