Anthropic in Talks to Pay $6B for Decart, Its Biggest Deal Ever
Anthropic is negotiating to acquire Israeli AI infrastructure startup Decart for roughly $6 billion, Reuters and Bloomberg reported August 12,…
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Nielsen Pays $2.15B for DoubleVerify, Betting Workflow Beats Independence Worries
Nielsen announced an all-cash, $2.15 billion acquisition of DoubleVerify on Aug. 6, 2026, paying $13.60 a share (a 30% premium)…
Scale AI Hires Ex-Google Cloud Exec Francis deSouza as CEO, Effective Aug. 10
Scale AI's board named Francis deSouza, former COO of Google Cloud's security products division and ex-CEO of Illumina, as chief…
General Catalyst, Nvidia, AMD Back River AI’s $1.1B Seed at 2 Months Old
River AI, the two-month-old startup from xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by…
Ex-Spotify Trio’s Malachyte Raises $10M for Real-Time Shopping AI
Malachyte, founded by former Spotify recommendation engineers, raised a $10 million seed round co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Gradient…
Genius Sports’ Media Revenue Jumps 193% as $1.2B Legend Bet Pays Off
Genius Sports says its media segment revenue surged 193%, Bettors Insider reported August 7, 2026, as the sports-data giant's $1.2…
Google Nears $1.5B+ Hire-and-License Deal With Coding Startup Mechanize
Google is negotiating to hire staff from and non-exclusively license AI coding technology from San Francisco's Mechanize in a deal…
Google’s $1.5B ‘Mechanize Deal’ Isn’t an Acquisition, Despite the Headline
Google is negotiating a deal valued at more than $1.5 billion for AI coding startup Mechanize, but independent reporting from…
Google Weighs $1.5B+ Mechanize Deal as It Loses Jeff Dean to Rival Startup
Google is negotiating a talent-and-licensing deal worth more than $1.5 billion with AI coding startup Mechanize, Business Insider reported August…
Oxylabs Takes First Outside Money Ever: $130M From Warburg Pincus at $3.6B
After a decade of bootstrapping, Vilnius-based web-scraping and proxy infrastructure firm Oxylabs accepted its first external investment on July 2026…