Snowflake to Acquire Observe in $1 Billion Deal
Snowflake agreed to acquire observability platform Observe to strengthen telemetry monitoring and AI-scale data operations. The deal would mark Snowflake’s largest acquisition to date.
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Snowflake agreed to acquire observability platform Observe to strengthen telemetry monitoring and AI-scale data operations. The deal would mark Snowflake’s largest acquisition to date.
Chinese regulators are assessing whether Meta’s acquisition of AI startup Manus violated technology export control rules. The review could affect how cross-border AI deals involving Chinese-developed technology are approved.
Meta Platforms has agreed to acquire Singapore-based AI startup Manus for about $2 billion, gaining a rare revenue-generating AI agent platform. The deal strengthens Meta’s AI strategy as investor scrutiny grows around heavy infrastructure spending.
Visa said it successfully completed hundreds of AI-driven transactions in a pilot program testing agent-based payments. The effort reflects a broader push across fintech to let AI agents handle purchases on behalf of consumers.
Google released Gemini 3 Flash, a new AI model designed to deliver frontier-level reasoning with significantly lower latency and cost. The model is rolling out across Google products, developer platforms, and enterprise services worldwide.
MoEngage raised $180 million in a Series F follow-on round, valuing the company at over $900 million and boosting investment in its AI-driven customer engagement platform.
Databricks secures $4 billion in Series L funding at $134B valuation, fueling AI product growth, Lakebase database development, and enterprise AI agent deployment.
Zoom introduced AI Companion 3.0, a federated AI solution integrating internal and third-party models to streamline meetings, documents, and personal workflows. The update adds agentic AI features, a web interface, and enhanced productivity tools.
OpenAI enhances AI cybersecurity capabilities with safeguards, trusted access programs, and collaborations to empower defenders and mitigate misuse risks.
Harness secures $240M to scale its AI DevOps agents, knowledge-graph automation, and global engineering teams as rising AI code volume intensifies demand for after-code testing, security, and deployment automation.
Adobe has integrated Photoshop, Adobe Express and Acrobat directly into ChatGPT, allowing users to edit images, design content and manage PDFs through conversational instructions.
Simular, a startup developing agentic AI for PC and Mac OS, raised $21.5 million in Series A funding to advance its technology that autonomously completes complex tasks with minimal human oversight.
DeepSeek has launched two new open-source AI models — V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale — that the company says match or exceed leading U.S. systems in advanced reasoning and tool-use tasks.
Amazon’s AI shopping assistant Rufus saw a sharp spike in Black Friday usage, fueling significantly higher purchase-conversion rates compared with non-AI sessions, according to new data from Sensor Tower and Adobe Analytics.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he is abandoning ChatGPT in favor of Google’s new Gemini 3 AI, praising its speed, reasoning, and multimodal capabilities. The endorsement highlights growing competition in the AI sector.