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Airtable's new owner Bending Spoons began cutting a large share of the workforce weeks after closing its $1.285B purchase, saying smaller teams will focus on the core product and AI features. The number affected was not disclosed.
Quantum computing company IonQ agreed to acquire Elisity, a zero-trust access and microsegmentation vendor, in an all-stock deal worth up to $1.3B, to pair it with IonQ's post-quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution products.
Customer data platform Hightouch acquired Strata, whose AI agent builds and maintains custom API integrations without code, to speed up its integration roadmap. Terms were not disclosed.
Hexagon agreed to acquire Toronto-based Rocscience from TA Associates, founders and management at a $535M enterprise value, adding rock and soil simulation software to its monitoring business.
Cloudflare bought Deno, the company led by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, and will fold its team into Workers. Deno Deploy will shut down in six months; terms were not disclosed.
TypeSafe AI, whose Jev model returns structured, typed decisions for software rather than text, raised an $870M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, less than a month after Jev entered early access.
At Gemini at Work, Google Cloud introduced the Gemini agent, which plans and completes tasks across business systems, runs on Gemini and Anthropic's Claude models, and works in Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Slack.
Stuut, which uses AI agents to run collections, cash application, disputes and deductions for large companies, raised a $52.5M Series B led by Insight Partners.
Cloud provider 11:11 Systems acquired select enterprise customers of IBM's VMware Cloud Service Provider business worldwide, as IBM pulls back from selling VMware on its cloud. Terms were not disclosed.
DevOps vendor Harness acquired select Augment Code assets, including the Cosmos coding agent fleet, Auggie CLI and Code Context Engine, and hired the teams behind them. Terms were not disclosed.
Arena, the crowdsourced AI model leaderboard, raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation, up from $1.7B in January. It sells AI evaluation analytics to model labs and enterprises.
Open-source AI lab Nous Research raised $90M led by Robot Ventures, valuing it at $1.5B, partly to build Hermes for Businesses, a platform for deploying custom private AI agents.