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"First, with the team behind personal finance startup Hiro, the company may be hoping to come up with a product that has “more hooks than just a chatbot, and maybe something worth paying more for.”"

"Hiro offered AI-powered financial planning for consumers. Users entered financial information like salary, debts, and monthly costs, and the app modeled different what-if scenarios to help them make financial decisions."

"Cirrus Labs is joining OpenAI"

"three senior executives who helped launch OpenAI's Stargate initiative are leaving the company and joining Meta"

"Cisco Systems Inc. is reportedly in talks to buy Astrix Security Ltd., a startup that helps companies secure their artificial intelligence agents."

"Cisco Systems Inc. said today it’s acquiring the artificial intelligence-native observability startup Galileo Technologies Inc. in order to make “agentic workforces” more trustworthy and reliable."

"71% of Hiring Leaders Say AI Is Breaking Technical Interviews"

"OpenAI’s purchase of TBPN makes no sense, which may be par for the course for OpenAI. Then, AI is breaking stuff, starting with tech services."

"John Coogan wrote on X that the show will be "staying the same.""

"OpenAI acquires TBPN to accelerate global conversations around AI and support independent media, expanding dialogue with builders, businesses, and the broader tech community."

"This year, Seed will increase its investment in talent, with approximately 100 Large Language Model talents for the class of 2027 to be recruited globally."

"Many AI security startups are built for acquisition, not durability."

"Shield AI Inc. today announced that it’s raising a $2 billion funding round at a post-money valuation of $12.7 billion."

"Feels like Meta is betting everything on agents being the next platform shift, not just chatbots."

"ARC-AGI-3 gives us a formal measure to compare human and AI skill acquisition efficiency"

"AI is reshaping mergers and acquisitions, from finding sellers to closing deals faster."

"OpenAI has already made six acquisitions in 2026, nearly as many as it made in all of 2025, according to Crunchbase data."

""The transaction complied fully with applicable law. We anticipate an appropriate resolution to the inquiry," a Meta spokesperson told Reuters in an emailed statement."

"On March 10th, Meta announced the acquisition of Moltbook, an AI agent social platform that launched less than two months ago."

"Tencent's goal is to establish user mindshare and grasp the traffic entrance of the AI era."

"If an unknown word appears, throw it into Cobo Memo on the spot."

"Microsoft hires a group of AI researchers from the Allen Institute for AI, including former CEO Ali Farhadi, who stepped down on March 12"

"Apollo.io has acquired Pocus, a revenue intelligence startup that helps sales teams identify and prioritise the accounts most likely to buy based on behavioural and CRM signals."

"OpenAI acquired Astral, which develops Python development tools, and will integrate tools such as Ruff and uv into Codex."

"OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Astral Software Inc., a startup with a set of widely used Python development tools."

"OpenAI agrees to acquire Astral, which makes Python tools for developers, to integrate its team into Codex, and says Codex has 2M+ users, up 3x since January"

"OpenAI周四宣布，将收购为软件开发者构建流行开源工具的小型初创公司Astral。"

"This is quite huge. Especially their closed source offering “pyx”. Arguably the most used python developer tools right now."

"OpenAI agrees to acquire Astral, which makes Python tools for developers, to integrate its team into Codex, and says Codex has 2M+ users, up 3x since January"