The e-commerce automation giant acquires AI-powered customer success startup Agency, bringing its founder back to work alongside Andrew Bialecki after two decades of parallel exits.
Identity platform Okta buys AI security startup Permiso in nearly all-cash deal to bolster machine-identity threat detection as enterprises deploy autonomous software.
AI interaction style is becoming a competitive differentiator as Cognition integrates conversational AI startup Poke into its engineering assistant.
Qualcomm's nearly $4B deal for Modular signals a strategic pivot toward horizontal AI platforms and away from Nvidia's CUDA dominance.
Salesforce to buy AI customer service platform Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B, integrating its agent technology into Agentforce.