Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Sunday, June 14, 2026

Aquisition

Cognition AI’s Windsurf Buy Is Part of a Bigger Shift in AI Deal-Making

It looked like a classic tech success story. An AI startup on the brink of a major acquisition, with giants waiting to strike a deal. Windsurf, a fast-growing company ...Full Article

Meta Picks Up Voice Startup Play AI as It Rebuilds Around GenAI

Meta has acquired Play AI, a startup known for ultra-realistic and emotionally rich voice generation, as part of its broader push to build its AI infrastructure. According to an ...Full Article

Apple’s Interest in Perplexity Hints at Growing AI Urgency

Apple is quietly weighing what could be one of its biggest moves in artificial intelligence so far, with a potential acquisition of Perplexity AI. The fast-growing startup has built ...Full Article

OpenAI’s $3 Billion Windsurf Deal Hints at Bigger AI Ambitions

OpenAI has agreed upon a deal to acquire Windsurf, an AI-powered coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for $3 billion, according to anonymous sources cited by Bloomberg. While the ...Full Article

Nvidia’s Strategic Acquisitions Signal Push Toward Full-Stack AI Control

Fresh off the heels of its GTC 2025 conference, where Nvidia showcased its latest advancements in AI and accelerated computing, the company is continuing to make headlines with strategic ...Full Article

CoreWeave Aims to Expand AI Capabilities with Weights & Biases Acquisition

CoreWeave, a cloud-based AI infrastructure company offering GPU cloud services to simplify AI and machine learning (ML) workloads, has deepened its foothold in the AI development space by reaching ...Full Article