acquisitions
Supabase is buying Turso to give AI agents cheap databases of their own News
Supabase is acquiring Turso, maker of a Rust rewrite of SQLite, to serve the millions of small databases that AI coding agents now create; no price was disclosed.
NVIDIA signed a $12.93 billion agreement to buy Hugging Face, with closing expected in 2027 News
NVIDIA signed a definitive agreement on September 2, 2026 to acquire Hugging Face for approximately $12.93 billion, but the SEC filing says the transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2027 pending regulatory approval—so it is announced, not complete.
NVIDIA signed a $12.93 billion agreement to buy Hugging Face, closing in 2027 News
NVIDIA entered a definitive agreement on September 2, 2026 to acquire Hugging Face for approximately $12.93 billion, with its SEC filing stating the deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027 pending regulatory approval -- meaning the acquisition is announced, not completed.
Nvidia is reportedly in talks to buy Hugging Face News
Business Insider reports Nvidia is in serious talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion, which would put the distribution layer for three million open models -- and the datasets under them -- inside the company that sells the chips they run on.
AWS is buying DuckDB's company, not DuckDB News
Amazon has agreed to acquire DuckLabs, the 30-person Amsterdam team behind DuckDB, while the database itself stays MIT-licensed under the nonprofit foundation that holds its intellectual property -- a structure the founders set up years ago for exactly this moment.
Stripe is buying the company that keeps score on every model News
Stripe announced on August 19 that it has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the gateway that routes developer traffic across more than 400 models from over 80 providers and publishes the industry's most-watched model usage rankings.