KKR-Singtel’s S$6.6 Bil STT GDC Buyout Closes — Deal Terms Check Out, Timeline Barely
The Edge Singapore reported August 31, 2026 that KKR and Singtel completed the S$6.6 billion (US$5.1 billion) buyout of the…
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Nasuni Buys DryvIQ, Betting Unstructured Data Cleanup Is the New AI Moat
Cloud data platform Nasuni acquired unstructured-data classification vendor DryvIQ, PR Newswire reported August 27, 2026, folding DryvIQ's governance tools into…
Abacus Data Buys Probe Research, Makes Winnipeg Its Prairie HQ
Abacus Data acquired Winnipeg's Probe Research on August 27, 2026, folding the 32-year-old, roughly eight-person firm's full team into a…
Instinct Raises $250M at $2.5B Days After AI Assistant’s Privacy Blowup
Spear Street Technology's Instinct wrote itself a "perpetual and irrevocable" license to users' email and calendar data and sent an…
Anthropic Pays Nscale $45B for West Virginia AI Compute Capacity
Anthropic has struck a roughly $45 billion, six-year deal with two-year-old British neocloud Nscale for 460 megawatts of Nvidia Vera…
Yotta Data Services Confirms IPO Talks, Dodges the $6bn Valuation Question
Yotta Data Services chairman Dashan Hiranandani told Bloomberg on August 28, 2026 that IPO talks are underway but declined to…
Google Pays $10M for Spirit Airlines’ Internal Data, Beats Mercor.io Bid
Google won an August 14, 2026 bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' de-identified corporate data with a $10 million bid, outbidding…
FS.COM Pays RMB330M ($46M) to Fully Absorb Shanghai Baud Data Comms
Hong Kong-listed FS.COM Limited said on August 21, 2026 it has closed the buyout of the remaining stake in Shanghai…
YipitData Weighs $2.5B+ Sale as Carlyle Tests Alt-Data Appetite
YipitData, the Carlyle-backed alternative-data shop with roughly $280 million in ARR, is working with Goldman Sachs on a sale that…
Nvidia Weighs Mercor Stake at $20B, Doubling Valuation in 9 Months
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest in AI data-labeling startup Mercor at a $20 billion valuation, double its $10…