Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for around $53.4B TechCrunch By: Lauren Forristal 15 July 2026 at 16:30 If completed, the acquisition would unite two of the biggest names in digital payments.
Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero TechCrunch By: Julie Bort 23 June 2026 at 22:48 Superhuman, which also has an AI detection tool as part of Grammarly, has snapped up GPTZero.
DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation TechCrunch By: Ivan Mehta 17 June 2026 at 13:14 With this acquisition, DeepL is opening an office in San Francisco to expand its U.S. business.
SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO TechCrunch By: Sean O'Kane 16 June 2026 at 12:21 The deal is supposed to help SpaceX's struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI.
Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6B TechCrunch By: Amanda Silberling 15 June 2026 at 15:34 Salesforce says it wants to use Fin's team and technology to improve Agentforce, its existing enterprise platform that businesses can use to build custom AI agents that automate tasks.
Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel AI TechCrunch By: Aisha Malik 10 June 2026 at 15:31 Through the acquisition, WMG aims to better track when its artists' work is used in AI-generated content or for training AI models.