Acquisitions
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Meta Snaps Up Manus AI Team as Big Tech Agent Race Intensifies
Meta has acquired the team behind Manus AI, the autonomous agent startup that made waves earlier this year. The acqui-hire signals Meta's aggressive push into AI agents as competition with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic heats up.
Alphabet's $4.75 Billion Intersect Power Deal Signals AI's New Infrastructure Arms Race
Alphabet is paying $4.75 billion in cash, plus debt, for Intersect Power—a data center and clean energy developer. The acquisition signals that Big Tech's AI ambitions now require owning the power plants, not just the GPUs.
Cursor Buys Graphite: AI Code Editor Expands Into Code Review and PR Management
Cursor, the AI-powered code editor that's been eating GitHub Copilot's lunch, just acquired Graphite—the modern code review platform known for stacked PRs. This isn't just a feature add. It's a land grab for the entire developer workflow.
NVIDIA Buys Slurm Creator SchedMD, Promising Open-Source Continuity for HPC Workloads
NVIDIA has acquired SchedMD, the company behind Slurm—the workload management system running on more than half of the world's top 100 supercomputers. The move extends NVIDIA's reach deeper into the AI training stack while raising questions about infrastructure consolidation.