Acquisitions

QXO will acquire insulation distributor TopBuild for $17 billion, its largest deal yet, creating an $18 billion-revenue building products giant.

SpaceX announced a $10 billion collaboration deal with AI coding tool Cursor and an option to acquire it for $60 billion, halting a $2B fundraising round that Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive, and Nvidia had been set to join.

Shareholders of both Coursera and Udemy voted over 99% in favor of combining into a single platform serving 245 million learners, with FTC clearance already secured and closing expected in the second half of 2026.

American Ocean Minerals Corporation and Odyssey Marine Exploration announced an all-stock merger valued at approximately $1 billion, creating one of the largest deep-sea mining companies as the US accelerates efforts to secure seabed critical minerals.

OpenAI has purchased the popular tech podcast TBPN for a reported low-hundreds-of-millions-dollar sum, placing the show under its political strategy chief as the AI company expands into media ahead of planned consumer hardware launches.

Apple marks its 50th anniversary on April 1, 2026, with worldwide events spanning from a private Paul McCartney concert at its Cupertino headquarters to performances and art installations at flagship stores across 11 cities.

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.

Google completed its all-cash acquisition of cloud security firm Wiz on March 11, clearing regulatory reviews in seven jurisdictions and reshaping the competitive landscape for independent cybersecurity vendors.

Meta has signed a multibillion-dollar deal to lease Google Ironwood TPUs as it diversifies its AI chip procurement beyond Nvidia, while Google targets 10 percent of Nvidia's data center revenue.