AI and tech acquisitions, and what happened to the product
This page tracks acquisitions, acquihires and talent-plus-license deals in AI and tech, newest first, grouped by month. It starts in May 2026.
The headline is the least useful part of a deal. What I want to know is what happens to the product the next morning. Does it keep running, go read-only, get folded into the buyer, or shut down? Is there an export button, and a date after which my data is gone?
Where the startup published its own shutdown notice or changelog, I link that first. Price is only listed when someone disclosed it. Funding rounds and patent-only deals are not here.
64 deals · May 2026 to November 2026 · updated 5 November 2026
No deals match that filter.
The big ones
9 deals here are over a billion dollars, or reported to be. Newest first.
Two more matter as much as those and nobody put a number on them. Meta buying Conductor and Cloudflare buying Deno are the kind of deal where the buyer wants the thing developers already reach for, not a revenue line.
November 2026
Factory bought HumanLayer
the multiplayer IDE and cloud for running coding agents, from the team behind the Research/Plan/Implement workflow. Terms not disclosed. HumanLayer's post says the platform stays up for a transition period of at least 30 days. In that window you can export your data, move to Factory, or self-host HumanLayer, which is going open source. Paying customers get refunded for the last several months. Factory plans to bring multiplayer tasks and shared plan editing into its own product.
Meta bought Conductor
The Mac app for running coding agents in parallel. Terms not disclosed. The 0.93.0 changelog is the clearest wind-down notice on this page: Conductor Cloud goes read-only on November 13 and shuts down on November 20, and the local app keeps getting new models and critical bug fixes until early 2027. To keep a cloud workspace and its chats, right-click it and choose Transfer to local. To download everything, go to Settings, then Account, then Export data.
OpenAI is buying Pierre Computer
the company behind Code Storage, the Git hosting that already sits inside the Codex app. OpenAI told Axios the financial terms were not disclosed. OpenAI's post says Code Storage customers can keep using it after closing while the features move into Codex, and Pierre's open-source projects stay open source.
CrowdStrike bought Fiddler AI
which evaluates AI agents before they ship and explains what they did in production. Terms not disclosed; the Wall Street Journal reported about $400 million. Fiddler becomes Falcon Observe inside the Falcon platform, generally available in CrowdStrike's fourth quarter.
CrowdStrike also bought Dreadnode
which builds automated security testing for models, agents and MCP servers. Terms not disclosed; the Journal put it at about $95 million. The testing tools move into Falcon, and the team joins CrowdStrike's Cyber Superintelligence Lab, per Dreadnode's post.
Marvell agreed to buy Lumentum
the maker of the lasers, optical transceivers and optical circuit switches that move data around AI data centers. It's an all-stock deal with an implied enterprise value of $115 billion, 4.5 Marvell shares for each Lumentum share, and Lumentum shareholders end up with about 33% of the combined company. Marvell expects it to close in the first half of 2028, after shareholder and regulatory approval. TechCrunch puts it among the largest tech deals ever, ahead of Microsoft's $68.7 billion for Activision Blizzard.
an agentic data engineering startup. Price not disclosed. Apple will hire certain employees, and Ascend's site says it is "winding down operations".
Salesforce agreed to buy Rune Technologies
whose TyrOS software plans military logistics in places with no network. Salesforce didn't disclose the price; Resilience Media reported $375 million in cash and stock. It goes into Missionforce, Salesforce's defense unit. Salesforce expects it to close by April 2027. TyrOS is already deployed with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.
Anthropic bought Mithril Medicine (disclosed October 27, closed in July)
the company behind the ChromaDB vector database. Price not disclosed. Chroma Cloud is going away, and the wind-down page gives two dates: on December 7, 2026 it becomes read-only, and on December 22 it stops serving reads. Open-source ChromaDB stays Apache 2.0 and Replit keeps contributing. Chroma's announcement.
Zoom bought Onyx
the open-source enterprise search platform. Price not disclosed. Zoom says Onyx stays a standalone platform, open source and self-hostable.
Meta bought Sundial
an AI data analytics platform founded by two former Meta employees. Terms not disclosed. Axios reports that Sundial stops serving external customers when the deal closes, and the co-founders join Meta's data analytics group. No closing date or export plan was published.
Hex-Rays bought HexAI
AI agents for malware analysis and vulnerability research. Price not disclosed. The HexAI platform stays available to existing customers, and a joint platform with IDA is planned for early 2027.
Salesforce agreed to buy Braze
for $5.66 billion in cash, or $47.50 a share. Braze is the customer engagement platform behind push, email and in-app messages for about 2,770 companies. It becomes part of Marketing Cloud and Customer 360 once the deal closes, which Salesforce expects in its fiscal 2028 after shareholder and regulatory approval. Axios notes it is Salesforce's fifth-largest acquisition.
OpenAI bought Orchestra Bio
a drug-development coordination platform. Price not disclosed. The team and tech join Rosalind, OpenAI's life sciences models and tools.
Apple bought assets of Samplab (disclosed October 19, deal struck in June)
a Swiss AI music editing startup, and hired some of its staff. Price not disclosed. 9to5Mac.
the open-weight vision model company behind the Photon inference engine. Terms not disclosed. Moondream Cloud customers get credits on Prime Inference, where Moondream 3.1 is already running.
Rocket Software bought Geniez AI
AI agents for mainframe operations. Price not disclosed. Announcement.
Salesforce bought Loops (October 12, closed November 2)
an AI analytics platform for Tableau. Price not disclosed. Loops explains why a metric moved and what to do next, and that becomes part of Tableau's agentic analytics. Salesforce.
Apple's reverse acquihire of Huxe (disclosed October 10)
Huxe made personalized AI audio briefings and was founded by people who worked on NotebookLM's podcast feature. Apple told the European Commission on June 9 that it would hire some employees and take a non-exclusive license to Huxe's IP. Price not disclosed. The product was already gone: Huxe announced on May 21 that it would pull the app from the stores, halt the service and delete user data.
Cloudflare bought Deno (announced October 9)
The JavaScript runtime, and the company behind Deno Deploy and JSR. Terms were not disclosed. Ryan Dahl's post lays out the timeline: Deno Deploy keeps running for six months and then shuts down, paying customers get migration support to Cloudflare Workers, the runtime gets another year of monthly bug and security releases before Deno stops developing it, and JSR keeps running with its infrastructure moving to Cloudflare.
Harness bought Augment Code's Cosmos, Auggie CLI and Context Engine
and the team behind them moved to Harness. Price not disclosed. Augment's post.
Supabase is buying Turso
the SQLite company. Price not disclosed. Supabase says nothing changes for existing users: Supabase stays on Postgres and Turso keeps working on SQLite.
Dynatrace closed its purchase of Arize (October 1, agreed August 13)
for $915 million in cash and stock. Arize evaluates and monitors AI apps, and the tools become part of Dynatrace's observability platform.
September 2026
Salesforce agreed to buy Listen Labs (September 29, closed November 2)
an AI customer research platform that runs simulated interviews. Price not disclosed; Business Insider reported about $2 billion. Salesforce.
AMD is buying World Labs
Fei-Fei Li's spatial intelligence lab, in an all-stock deal worth about $8.2 billion. The team keeps doing model research inside AMD, and Li becomes executive vice president and chief scientist.
Replit bought Atta
a business analysis and charting startup. Terms not disclosed. The first piece shipped the same day: interactive charts in Replit chat.
Databricks bought Row Zero
a cloud spreadsheet that handles billions of rows and connects live to a warehouse. Terms not disclosed. Row Zero says the app keeps working as it does today, the free tier stays, and it keeps supporting Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Postgres and S3 while the team builds it into Databricks Genie.
Adobe finished buying Topaz Labs (September 23, announced June 25)
Topaz makes AI video and image enhancement models. Price not disclosed. Adobe says Topaz continues as a standalone brand, and its tools stay available on its own site.
Cohere and Aleph Alpha signed a combination agreement
The German lab folds into Cohere, which keeps two headquarters, Toronto and Berlin, and Aleph Alpha's Heidelberg office as a research center. No price disclosed. Cohere.
OpenAI bought Glass Imaging (reported September 14)
a smartphone camera company founded by two former Apple engineers. TechCrunch reports a price of just over $300 million, citing the Wall Street Journal, and OpenAI did not comment. Treat it as a report, not an announcement.
Google finished its talent deal for Mechanize (reported September 11)
an AI agents startup. The co-founder and over a dozen staff moved to Google. Business Insider says the final terms weren't disclosed.
Git AI joined OpenAI
Git AI tracks which code in a repo was written by AI agents. The team joins Codex. Price not disclosed. Git AI's post.
Harvey bought Guardrails AI
the company behind the open-source Guardrails validators for LLM apps. Price not disclosed. Harvey's announcement. The breaking change for users came before the deal. In GitHub issue #1560, opened July 6, the team set August 25, 2026 as the cutoff for guardrails hub install and the private validator registry. Validators now install from public PyPI:
pip install guardrails-ai-detect-pii
The hosted inference servers went away too, so validators that ran models on Guardrails' servers have to run them locally (use_local=True) or on your own endpoint.
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face
for $12.93 billion. It's the model and dataset hub that most open-model work goes through. Nvidia says Hugging Face stays an open platform: people upload and download the models they choose, and Nvidia compute is not required to build or deploy through it. Nvidia's SEC filing puts the price at about $11.9 billion for Hugging Face stockholders plus up to $1 billion in retention equity, and expects the deal to close in the first half of 2027.
Adobe bought Rilo
an Indian AI workflow builder for marketing teams, in a license-plus-team deal. Price not disclosed. TechCrunch reports Rilo shuts down and won't be available to customers.
August 2026
Amazon bought DuckLabs (announced August 26, closed August 31)
the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB, the analytical database a lot of data tooling now runs on. Terms not disclosed. The team stays together in Amsterdam, and DuckDB stays MIT-licensed under the nonprofit DuckDB Foundation, with AWS promising long-term support for the project.
The Instant team joined OpenAI
Instant is an open-source real-time database. Price not disclosed. The Instant post gives a long runway: new signups are closed, users should migrate off Instant Cloud within 12 months, all cloud apps shut down on August 31, 2027, and backups stay available until August 31, 2028. Subscriptions started after July 31, 2026 get a full refund, and there's a self-hosting guide since all of Instant is open source.
Stripe agreed to buy OpenRouter
the model gateway that routes requests across 400+ models. The companies didn't disclose the price; the New York Times reported $7.5 billion. OpenRouter says nothing changes for anyone building on it: same name, same product, same roadmap.
Fortinet bought Virtue AI
an AI security company. Fortinet says terms are not disclosed and the amount is immaterial to its business.
the company behind PGlite and the Electric sync engine. Terms not disclosed. Electric Cloud is winding down: existing users can still sign in, new signups are closed, and everyone has to self-host or move to another provider. PGlite, Postgres Sync, TanStack DB and Durable Streams stay open source.
OpenAI bought NextSlide (reported August 8)
an AI presentation app. The team works on ChatGPT now, and the deal happened earlier in the year. Price not disclosed. TechCrunch.
Mendral was an agent for CI failures, flaky tests and dependency updates. Price not disclosed. Mendral's post says the hosted product is winding down and they contacted each customer directly.
The OpenAI Deployment Company bought Northslope
an applied AI company that puts engineers inside enterprises. Terms not disclosed. Northslope's forward-deployed engineers join the group OpenAI launched in May, which had already bought Tomoro.
Figma bought the team behind Bud
the vibe-coding and agent platform formerly called Orchids. Price not disclosed. TechCrunch reports both Bud and Orchids shut down by July 18. CMSWire spells out what users had to do: download projects locally or push them to GitHub, then redeploy on another host before the deadline, because hosted apps went offline.
Vercel is buying Better Auth
the open-source TypeScript auth library. Price not disclosed. The founder and core team join Vercel to keep working on Better Auth.
SAP closed its purchase of Dremio (July 6, agreed May 4)
the data lakehouse company behind Apache Arrow and Polaris work. Price not disclosed. Dremio becomes part of SAP Business Data Cloud. CRN has both SAP deals.
This is the biggest deal on the page. The SEC filing puts Cursor's implied equity value at $60.0 billion, paid in SpaceX stock, and the merger took effect on August 14. Cursor keeps running as a SpaceX subsidiary.
Salesforce bought Fin (June 15, closed September 10)
for $3.6 billion. Fin, formerly Intercom, runs AI customer service agents. Salesforce says Fin keeps serving its customers as part of Salesforce AI Labs, with its agents going into Agentforce.
OpenAI agreed to buy Ona
formerly Gitpod, which runs cloud environments for coding agents. CNBC reports terms were not disclosed. The deal closed on August 10, and then on October 13 Ona announced that Ona Cloud shut down on October 31. Environments did not move to Codex automatically, so users had to commit and push their code and back up everything else. Ona refunded October payments and unused purchased credits.
a Linz physics AI startup whose models simulate engineering and manufacturing. Mistral signed a definitive agreement and didn't disclose terms. Sifted reported that internal documents valued Emmi at up to €330 million.
Anthropic bought Stainless
which generates SDKs, CLIs and MCP servers from API specs, including every official Anthropic SDK. TechCrunch notes Anthropic didn't disclose terms, and that OpenAI and Google use Stainless too. Anthropic's announcement.
OpenAI bought Tomoro
an applied AI consulting firm with about 150 forward-deployed engineers. Price not disclosed. It became the first acquisition for the OpenAI Deployment Company and now operates under that name.
SAP closed its purchase of Reltio (May 7, agreed March 30)
a master data management platform. Price not disclosed. CRN reports it becomes a core piece of SAP Business Data Cloud.
SAP agreed to buy Prior Labs
a German AI lab working on tabular data. The purchase price was not disclosed. SAP plans to invest €1 billion in it over four years.
Meta bought Assured Robot Intelligence
which builds foundation models for humanoid robots, for an undisclosed sum. The team joins Meta Superintelligence Labs.
