News / #acquisition Tag Acquisition 195 articles archived under #acquisition · RSS Sign in to follow The Information — AI news-outlet 1d ago OpenAI Pulls Its AI Models From SpaceX-Owned Cursor OpenAI said Friday night that it will terminate its contract to provide its AI models to coding assistant Cursor following Cursor’s $60 billion acquisition by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The move escalates the high-profile feud between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Musk: OpenAI’s post… 34 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 1d ago Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX Article URL: https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486172 Points: 247 # Comments: 89 31 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1d ago Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away. 22 OpenAI official-blog 2d ago Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX. 27 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 2d ago Syntax vs. Semantics: How Transformers Learn Deep Dependencies arXiv:2608.26139v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models demonstrate remarkable syntactic fluency, yet the optimization dynamics governing their acquisition of deep semantic dependencies remain poorly understood. We propose a mechanistic framework that models this… 4 r/LocalLLaMA community 2d ago I am Concerned if Nvidia Acquires Llama.CPP, Dev Team and HF, Anybody else? I dont know about others, but Nvidia is aiming (potentially) to close the lid on older GPUs since they want to push their new technology. Llama and team has been the to go places for older GPUs like V100s. Knowing how Nvidia have tried killing these GPUs of relevancy concerns me… 25 ThursdAI news-outlet 2d ago NVIDIA Buys Hugging Face! GLM-5.3-Flash, Qwen4 Preview, Gemini Omni 1.1, and the Datacenter Debate w/ Andy Masley From CoreWeave - join Alex and ThursdAI co-host, covering the last week of the summer in AI, with 4 Flash models, Datacenter debate & more AI news 11 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3d ago Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business. 25 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 3d ago Learning New Facts with QLoRA: An Acquisition-Retention Frontier arXiv:2608.25677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning is often assumed to preserve pretrained capabilities because it updates only a small number of parameters. We show that this assumption depends strongly on adapter capacity. We study factual… 23 Latent.Space news-outlet 3d ago [AINews] NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publishes their HF incident retro Open Source wins! 10 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 3d ago Stripe acquires Clerky https://twitter.com/darbyw/status/2092718828405096955 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455956 Points: 201 # Comments: 42 26 The Information — AI news-outlet 3d ago Datadog Shares Jump 5% on Report of Palo Alto Networks Explored Acquisition Shares of Datadog rose as much as 5% Wednesday morning after The Information reported that Palo Alto Networks explored an acquisition of the data software company last year. Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora met with Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel and pitched him on a hypothetical… 5 The Information — AI news-outlet 3d ago Inside Nikesh Arora’s Deals Hunt for Palo Alto Networks Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora has never shied away from deals, acquiring more than 40 companies in the eight years since he took the helm of the world’s biggest standalone cybersecurity firm. But over the past 18 months, Arora’s appetite for acquisitions has reached a new… 11 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 3d ago AWS Acquires DuckDB Article URL: https://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448321 Points: 273 # Comments: 61 28 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4d ago GAP-Prompt: Gated Adaptive Prompting for Efficient Continual Learning arXiv:2608.23782v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning faces the persistent challenge of catastrophic forgetting, where sequential task updates degrade previously acquired knowledge. While prompt-based methods integrated with pre-trained models offer a compelling… 15 arXiv — Machine Learning research 4d ago AQLoRA: A Zero-Search Recipe for Fast Quantized LoRA Fine-Tuning arXiv:2608.23816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantized fine-tuning (QLoRA) saves memory but not time. It dequantizes every 4-bit weight on the fly, so it trains more slowly than fp16 LoRA. We present AQLoRA (Adaptive-Quantization LoRA), a recipe that buys part of that time… 10 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 4d ago Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team. 11 The Information — AI news-outlet 5d ago Inside Musk’s First Address to Cursor: Grok Is Falling Behind Earlier this month, on the day SpaceX announced it had completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, Elon Musk called into an all-hands video meeting with the coding startup’s staff. Musk told them that SpaceX’s AI unit had fallen behind competitors and that he wasn’t used to… 36 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 5d ago Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sale will happen. 27 r/LocalLLaMA community 6d ago Hugging Face for sales? 👀 wonder what would happen to open models, if the sales went through, and hf got acquired by a big tech shop? 👀 https://www.businessinsider.com/hugging-face-could-be-acquired-13-billion-2026-8 $13 billion not a bad price though 😂   submitted by   /u/HugeConsideration211… 37 The Information — AI news-outlet 6d ago Nvidia Invests in Data Center Power Firm, Preps Multibillion-Dollar Perplexity Deal Nvidia acquired a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, its third equity investment in rapid succession in firms that secure real estate and electricity access for data centers in the U.S. The move is part of Nvidia’s race to lock up data center capacity for its full AI… 17 arXiv — Machine Learning research 6d ago Learning Prostate Anatomy at Test Time for Cancer Detection in Micro-Ultrasound arXiv:2608.20557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Domain shift across clinical centers using different imaging hardware or acquisition protocols remains a fundamental barrier to deploying deep learning models for prostate cancer (PCa) detection. Existing test-time adaptation… 14 The Information — AI news-outlet 8d ago Exclusive: OpenAI Explored Stake in Stargate Power Developer Lancium OpenAI explored its own investment in or acquisition of Lancium, the power developer behind its Stargate facility in Abilene, Tex., last quarter, The Information reported Friday . Ultimately, Nvidia invested billions of dollars in the firm . The OpenAI interest shows the length… 22 The Information — AI news-outlet 8d ago Nvidia is Using Land and Electricity Deals to Lock In Its Hardware Bundle Nvidia is racing to lock up data center capacity for its AI hardware before its rivals do. On Friday, the company announced it had acquired a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, its third equity investment in rapid succession in firms that secure real estate and… 25 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago Active Inference as Context Acquisition for AI Agents arXiv:2608.19202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interactive AI agents must acquire the right context as efficiently as possible. When a user omits a constraint, preference, file, or task variable, an agent can proceed with a default assumption or spend tokens on a clarifying… 4 arXiv — Machine Learning research 9d ago Question-Guided Evidence Acquisition for Multimodal Visual Question Answering arXiv:2608.19739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal LLMs can see a document, but they often can't read it reliably. Small text, tables, visual cues, and topological elements still trip them up under direct visual inference, even when the page is already sitting in the… 14 The Information — AI news-outlet 9d ago Anthropic’s Enterprise AI Venture Buys Consultancy A joint venture established by Anthropic and Wall Street firms such as Blackstone has made its first acquisition since its July launch as it looks to boost the growth of Claude, Anthropic’s chatbot, among businesses. Anthropic ’s venture, Ode, plans to announce Thursday that it… 8 arXiv — Machine Learning research 10d ago Towards Reversible Forgetting: Managing Obsolete Knowledge in Continual Enterprise AI Agents arXiv:2608.18177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning has traditionally treated forgetting as a failure, emphasizing preservation of previously acquired knowledge as environments evolve. We argue that this objective is incomplete for enterprise AI agents operating… 31 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 10d ago Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI. 22 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 11d ago J-Miner: Recovering Executable Decision Knowledge from Language-Model Classifiers arXiv:2608.17063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models can be fine-tuned into specialized classifiers that perform well across diverse text tasks and make complex judgments, but they typically expose only final labels, leaving the decision knowledge acquired… 13 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 12d ago Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auction-because-ai/5288962 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343559 Points: 286 # Comments: 183 28 Stratechery (Ben Thompson) community 12d ago Nvidia Backs OpenAI Data Center, Anthropic News, Google Buys Spirit Airlines Data Nvidia makes another deal, this time with a frontier lab; Anthropic's revenue continues to amaze; and maybe data finally is oil. 30 arXiv — Machine Learning research 12d ago P2E-VQ: ECG-linked representation augmentation for PPG via discrete patch retrieval arXiv:2608.14656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Photoplethysmography (PPG) is widely used in consumer wearables because of its low cost and ease of acquisition. However, unlike electrocardiography (ECG), PPG measures peripheral pulse dynamics rather than cardiac electrical… 9 arXiv — Machine Learning research 12d ago Guaranteed Adaptive Modality Acquisition: When the Policy Chooses Its Own Calibration Group arXiv:2608.15520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A multimodal system may begin inference holding only some of its inputs and may acquire the rest at a cost. With adaptive acquisition, the policy determines which inputs are ultimately observed, so we state the guarantee… 13 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 12d ago A Declarative-Procedural Perspective on Expert Routing in Bilingual Mixture-of-Experts Language Models arXiv:2608.15102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate whether Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models develop linguistically structured expert routing during bilingual language acquisition. Inspired by the Declarative-Procedural framework, we analyze lexical,… 10 Latent.Space news-outlet 12d ago [AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B No GPUs, no Agents, just really, really, really good infra and distribution. 5 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 13d ago LittleLearner: Language Models Under Pedagogically Controlled Knowledge Exposure Abstract A curated elementary-grade pretraining corpus and 5B-parameter model create a controlled sandbox for studying knowledge acquisition, representation, and bounded capability growth via post-training and in-context learning. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small… 14 arXiv — Machine Learning research 13d ago Hard Cases, Bad Labels: Testing Error Exposure and Error Location in Uncertainty Sampling Under Bounded Label Noise arXiv:2608.13601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Active learning can reduce labeling cost by selecting informative examples, but the most uncertain examples may also be the hardest to label correctly. This study tests whether uncertainty sampling fails because it acquires more… 22 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 14d ago SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX. 29 Latent.Space news-outlet 16d ago [AINews] Cursor's $60B acquisition by SpaceXai closes Congrats to the team! 26 arXiv — Machine Learning research 16d ago Sustaining Plasticity via Learnable Wavelet Activations in Continual Learning arXiv:2608.12874v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Plasticity loss has emerged as a critical challenge in continual learning that significantly hinders the acquisition of sequential tasks. While optimizing activation designs offers a potential solution, current fixed-form functions… 23 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago LittleLearner: Language Models Under Pedagogically Controlled Knowledge Exposure arXiv:2608.13545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern language models are trained on heterogeneous web-scale text corpora. Consequently, studying knowledge and skill acquisition is difficult, as prior exposure to related content is hard to characterize. To address this… 6 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 17d ago How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse co-founder Vinayak Shrivastav is now at the center of multiple legal cases. 26 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 18d ago Detecting an Effect Is Not Learning to Act on It: A Reward-SNR Floor for LLM Acquisition Agents arXiv:2608.10441v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many pipelines can pay a per-example cost to acquire an auxiliary, model-derived observation -- an LLM's structured reasoning, a slow oracle, an expensive measurement -- and then must decide when the acquired signal is worth… 30 arXiv — Machine Learning research 19d ago Trajectory Design and Budgeted Querying for Digital Twin Calibration arXiv:2608.08631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Digital-twin calibration requires interaction data that is expensive to collect. We study two acquisition decisions: which trajectories to generate, and when to spend a limited budget on privileged parameter measurements. Our… 7 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 19d ago NeuPAT: Neuron-aware Plasticity Allocation Tuning for Language-Preserving MLLMs arXiv:2608.08107v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal expansion of large language models (LLMs) enables new perceptual capabilities but often compromises the language intelligence acquired during pretraining. In this work, we investigate this phenomenon from the perspective… 8 arXiv — Machine Learning research 20d ago ELMZip: Onboard Satellite Image Compression via Extreme Learning Machines for Efficient Downlink arXiv:2608.06942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The acquisition of multispectral imagery via small satellites (e.g., CubeSats) presents significant data downlink challenges due to high data volumes and restricted communication windows. While onboard image compression is critical… 27 arXiv — Machine Learning research 20d ago Conformal Fusion Under Missing Modalities arXiv:2608.07183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal fusion architectures typically assume all modalities are available at inference, yet sensor failures, acquisition variability, and cost constraints routinely produce incomplete observations. Existing work treats modality… 32 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 21d ago OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT. 12 Latent.Space news-outlet 23d ago [AINews] AMD buys Taalas The Inference Inflection is HEATING up. 22 Page 1 of 4 · 195 articles Older →
