Acquisitions

AI & ML 7 min Nvidia Buying Hugging Face Is Reported, Not Signed, and Not Confirmed Nvidia is reported to have agreed US$12.9bn for Hugging Face, against roughly US$150m of revenue. At about 86... MA Maya Lin 1 Sep AI & ML 7 min Nvidia's Reported $12.9bn Hugging Face Deal Is Unconfirmed Reports put the price at US$12.9bn and several outlets have run it as settled. Neither company has confirmed a... MA Maya Lin 29 Aug Developer Tools 8 min AWS Bought DuckDB's Maintainers, Not DuckDB The project stays MIT-licensed under an independent foundation, and the people who set its technical direction... MA Maya Lin 29 Aug Business 8 min Nvidia Paid $7bn For Poolside's Technology And Staff Without Buying Poolside A US$6bn non-exclusive licence to the model factory, 109 employees transferring, and US$1bn of equity at a US$... EV Eva Chin 22 Aug Developer Tools 8 min Stripe Is Buying The Layer That Decides Which AI Model Answers You OpenRouter routes enterprise work across about 400 models and meters the token spend. A payments company buyin... MA Maya Lin 20 Aug AI & ML 8 min OpenAI's $122 Billion Year: Seven Acquisitions, a New Holding Company Model, and the Race to Own Every AI Surface OpenAI raised $122 billion in 2026, completed seven acquisitions including personal-finance agent Hiro, and re... AI AI Tools Desk 8 May