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Purchases of technology companies, including startups bought by larger firms for their products, teams or technology.
OpenAI is reportedly in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, with no price disclosed. Crypto Briefing reported that CrowdStrike fell about 3% to around $254 on Oct. 14, Palo Alto about 4% and Fortinet more than 3%.
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Amazon is in talks to buy AI startup Decart for about $7 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, against a valuation of nearly $4 billion in May. Decart's software eases switching between AI chips, and Amazon is pushing its Trainium3 chip against Nvidia.
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The framework's full-time staff are now Cloudflare employees. The license, roadmap and run-anywhere promises are unchanged on paper, which is the part teams standardizing on Astro should test.
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Bending Spoons says it has fixed more than 100 Vimeo bugs and shipped over 50 improvements since its $1.38 billion purchase of the platform. Teams running corporate video can build on what has shipped, but headcount and pricing are still open questions.
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SpaceX closed its $60 billion purchase of Cursor on August 15, 2026. The loudest developer reaction was not celebration but a claim that Claude Code and Codex already took the agentic coding lead.
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The reported price for Glass Imaging is more than $300 million against a roughly $100 million valuation a year ago and $29.3 million of disclosed venture money in, and OpenAI has not said what the technology is for.
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