News / #acquisition Tag Acquisition 229 articles archived under #acquisition · RSS Sign in to follow TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo ago SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX. 29 Latent.Space news-outlet 1mo ago [AINews] Cursor's $60B acquisition by SpaceXai closes Congrats to the team! 26 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo ago OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT. 12 Latent.Space news-outlet 1mo ago [AINews] AMD buys Taalas The Inference Inflection is HEATING up. 22 r/LocalLLaMA community 1mo ago AMD Acquires Taalas to Advance Compute Solutions for Rapidly Growing AI Inference Market Press My earlier prediction that Tesla would buy them completely missed the mark. With AMD focusing heavily on the enterprise side, the idea of consumer-facing hot-swappable AI model chips looks pretty much dead. Fast forward ten years, you might find used model blade cards on… 18 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 1mo ago AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1296/am... https://chatjimmy.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201970 Points: 213 # Comments: 151 13 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 1mo ago Language Models Generalize to Human-like Word Order Preferences arXiv:2608.05028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A central question in language acquisition is whether linguistic biases can emerge from general learning mechanisms operating over underdetermined input. Artificial Language Learning (ALL) studies have shown that human learners… 23 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 1mo ago SKILL-KD: Contrastive Skill Distillation for LLM Agents Abstract Skill-based prompting has become a practical mechanism for improving large language model (LLM) agents, yet existing skill acquisition methods often treat skills as experience summaries, memory entries, or direct summaries of successful demonstrations. This creates a… 13 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents. 6 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Forecasting Revenue with its Customer-Base Drivers: When and Why Coordination Helps arXiv:2608.02911v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Revenue forecasts guide acquisition budgets, demand planning, and customer-based valuations, yet an aggregate forecast does not show whether change reflects acquisition, repeat purchasing, spending per order, or offsetting… 8 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 1mo ago Don't Let Me Ask for It: LLMs Show Deficiencies in Active Multi-Turn Information Acquisition for Abductive Inference arXiv:2608.03388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Abductive reasoning requires forming hypotheses that explain observed evidence and revising them as new evidence becomes available. While large language models (LLMs) are often evaluated on whether they solve abductive reasoning… 21 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 1mo ago Logic Before Language: Pre-pretraining on Formal Derivations Fosters Skill Acquisition and Compressibility arXiv:2608.03930v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-pretraining language models (LMs) on symbolic data can accelerate and improve natural language acquisition. However, existing pre-pretraining tasks, such as Dyck and procedural algorithms, rely on narrow primitives that fail to… 13 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago SAFE-Merge: Data-Free Continual Model Merging with General Knowledge Preservation arXiv:2608.01184v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-free continual model merging must incorporate a stream of specialized models while retaining both pretrained general knowledge and previously acquired tasks, without access to task data. Existing methods mainly merge task… 37 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago Mitigating Class-Tail Undercoverage in Medical Vision-Language Models under Clinical Shift arXiv:2607.28696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical vision-language models (VLMs) can retain high observed marginal coverage after clinical shift while substantially under-covering an individual disease class. The affected class varies with acquisition protocol and backbone… 9 arXiv — Machine Learning research 1mo ago NeuroSynth: A Biologically Inspired Continual Reinforcement Learning Architecture for Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting arXiv:2607.28663v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems often perform well on isolated tasks but struggle under continual learning conditions, where training on new tasks can overwrite previously acquired knowledge, a failure mode known as… 29 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 1mo ago SciToolAgent-Evo: An Ontology-Aware Self-Evolving Agent for Open-World Scientific Tool Acquisition arXiv:2607.28692v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents have been increasingly adopted in scientific research for organizing and invoking specialized computational tools. However, their reliance on predefined tool spaces with static semantics limits… 33 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments. 35 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1mo ago Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale, which helps companies scale their AI workloads across data centers and servers. 12 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 2mo ago CLBench-V: Evaluating Multimodal Context Learning from Grounding to Knowledge Acquisition Abstract Real-world tasks often require models to learn from task-specific context rather than relying only on pre-trained knowledge. While recent work has highlighted this capability as context learning, existing evaluations mainly focus on textual contexts. In many practical… 14 arXiv — Machine Learning research 2mo ago Scores Are Not Decisions: Cost-Aware Stopping for Tool Acquisition in LLM Agents arXiv:2607.27083v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM agents increasingly depend on diverse external services such as search engines, databases, and connectors, agent harnesses face a fundamental tool-selection challenge: acquiring too few tools leaves the task under-informed,… 25 Page 2 of 5 · 229 articles ← Newer Older →
