Startup Watch
Apple licenses Huxe's AI podcast tech, may hire its team
An EU filing shows Apple gets a non-exclusive license to Huxe's AI audio technology and the right to offer jobs to staff of the shut-down startup.
Acquisitions news and analysis
Tech companies buying other companies: Nvidia's $12.9 billion purchase of Hugging Face, the model hub developers use daily, and AMD's $8.2 billion all-stock deal (paid in shares, not cash) for Fei-Fei Li's World Labs. Each story separates confirmed deal terms from reported ones.
Dev Stack
Deno joins Cloudflare; Deno Deploy shuts in six months
The Deno team is joining Cloudflare. Deno Deploy shuts down in six months, the runtime gets a final year of monthly fixes, and JSR moves to Cloudflare.
Tech Industry
SpaceX buys 800 MHz spectrum as carrier stocks drop
SpaceX will buy Grain Management's 800 MHz spectrum for Starlink Mobile. AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile shares fell 5% to 7% in after-hours trading on October 8.
Tech Industry
Schneider Electric to buy PTC for $22.6 billion
Schneider Electric will pay $205 a share, $22.6 billion in cash, for PTC, the maker of Creo, Windchill and Onshape. The deal should close in Q3 2027.
Startup Watch
Nebius buys Inferize for up to $150M to cut cold starts
Nebius paid a reported $100-150 million for Inferize, a 17-person startup founded in January that cuts GPU idle time when AI models start up.
Startup Watch
Supabase raises $150M and buys Turso for agent databases
Supabase raised $150M four months after a $500M Series F and is buying Turso, whose SQLite tech lets one server run millions of small databases.
Startup Watch
AMD buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion
AMD agreed to buy World Labs, Fei-Fei Li's 3D world-model startup, in an $8.2 billion all-stock deal. Li becomes AMD's chief scientist under Lisa Su.
Tech Industry
Nvidia officially confirms its $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal
Nvidia confirmed its $12.9 billion purchase of Hugging Face and promised the platform stays open to non-Nvidia hardware. It turned down a $500 million offer just last year.
Tech Industry
Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, reports say
The Information reports Nvidia agreed to pay $12.9 billion for Hugging Face, the model hub developers use daily. Neither company has confirmed the deal yet.
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