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Hugging Face is exploring a sale at $13 billion or more, nearly tripling its 2023 $4.5 billion valuation and drawing interest from strategic investors...

California AG Rob Bonta canceled settlement talks with Paramount over its $110B Warner Bros. Discovery takeover, accusing the company of leaking...

• More than 500 venture-backed startups sold to other private venture-backed firms globally this year
• OpenAI leads acquirers with 8 deals in 2026...

The settlement reopens competition in online rental advertising by requiring Redfin to relaunch its independent listings business within six...

Elastic has completed its acquisition of Deductive AI, adding an AI SRE agent that gathers evidence, tests hypotheses, and learns from each...

The DOJ has spent nearly a year probing whether a16z partners hold interlocking board seats at competing AI firms Databricks and Fivetran under...

Hugging Face's potential $13B sale marks a sharp jump from its $4.5B valuation just three years ago.

• Valuation trend: Tripled in value since 2023...

California AG Rob Bonta is preparing settlement talks with Paramount over its Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition but demands robust structural...

• Massive scale: Nine tech firms hold ~$3 trillion in off-balance-sheet AI commitments, triple their recent $600 billion annual capex.
• Breakdown:...

Judge Gonzalez Rogers brings deep Silicon Valley experience to Meta's antitrust trial, having overseen landmark cases against Apple and OpenAI.

Her...

FuriosaAI turned down Meta's $800M acquisition offer, choosing independence to drive its own AI chip innovation and global expansion. This signals AI...

Google may invest $12.2 billion in Marvell to advance custom AI chips, even as Broadcom secures a long-term supply agreement through 2031.

• AI infrastructure shift: Stripe's OpenRouter acquisition evolves it from payments into a multi-product platform managing token spend and model...

State AGs are asserting greater power to block major tech mergers even after federal clearance and global approvals.

• Paramount faces $1.3B+ in...

SaaS public valuations collapsed in H1 2026, with the median EV/revenue multiple falling to 3.4x from 6.6x in H2 2025.

• Public market pain: Only...

• Global PE investment reached $1 trillion at mid-year 2026, yet deal count fell to 9,294 versus 21,646 for all of 2025, reflecting a flight to large,...

• FTC targets AI accuracy: New enforcement on 'suppression of accuracy' in outputs creates compliance dilemmas for developers.
• DOJ probes VC boards:...

Semiconductor firms are pouring record money into AI startups as profits soar, backing rounds worth more than $250 billion this year.

PayPal is in takeover discussions with Stripe and Advent International, but the initial $60.50 per share offer was deemed insufficient.

Paramount Skydance is demanding a $1.88 billion bond from 12 states and the WGA to cover delay costs in its Warner Bros. Discovery merger.

• The...