Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to acquire World Labs, the artificial intelligence startup founded by renowned computer scientist Fei-Fei Li, for $8.2 billion in stock. The acquisition brings one of AI's most influential researchers to AMD as the chipmaker escalates its rivalry with Nvidia in the AI chip market.
Novo Nordisk announced it cut 13,000 jobs in the past year and outlined plans to diversify beyond obesity drugs with new pipeline assets and bolt-on acquisitions. CEO Mike Doustdar faced investor skepticism about pricing power and strategy ahead of patent expiries.
South Korea's proposed cryptocurrency ownership regulations could create a governance conflict for Naver Financial's planned acquisition of Upbit operator Dunamu if the company later becomes classified as a holding company, with Fair Trade Act rules clashing with proposed ownership caps.
Bitcoin Bancorp purchased approximately 2,500 cryptocurrency ATM kiosks and intellectual property from bankrupt Bitcoin Depot for $620,750, acquiring the assets at a fraction of their previous value through Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
Figure Technology Solutions closed its $717 million acquisition of Kiavi on September 1, bringing one of the largest US residential real estate investor lenders onto blockchain-based infrastructure. The deal adds approximately $7 billion in tokenized loan volume to Figure's platform.
Copper, a cryptocurrency custody firm that was previously seeking a sale at $500 million, now has two or three acquisition offers at approximately $200 million amid depressed market conditions.
Anthropic is assembling a revolving credit facility exceeding $10 billion ahead of a potential IPO, with lead banks asked to lend about $1.25 billion each. The company is also exploring a $6-7 billion acquisition of Israeli AI startup Decart.
Goldman Sachs agreed to acquire NEOS Investments, manager of the $1.1 billion BTCI bitcoin synthetic ETF, in a cash-and-equity deal valuing NEOS at up to $2.25 billion. The acquisition gives Goldman three crypto options-income ETFs including bitcoin and ethereum products.
Swedish publicly traded company H100 Group AB completed its acquisition of NSD AS on August 10, 2026, acquiring 2,455.37 Bitcoin and bringing total holdings to 3,506.4 BTC. The transaction marks the first M&A deal in public markets denominated entirely in Bitcoin on both sides.
ATIF Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: AUC) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire GoldCoin Labs Limited, advancing the company's strategy in tokenized real-world assets and gold-backed digital infrastructure.
Payward Inc., Kraken's parent company, agreed to acquire Hong Kong-based payments firm Reap Technologies for $600 million in cash and stock, deepening its push into Asian stablecoin infrastructure and institutional services.
Bakkt finalized its acquisition of Distributed Technologies Research, a stablecoin payments company, in a deal originally announced in January for 9.3 million shares. The company also changed its corporate name to Bakkt Inc.
Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings announced acquisition of Ohio natural gas plant operator Long Ridge Energy for $1.5 billion, including a 505 MW gas plant and 1,600 acres offering over 1 GW power capacity for AI data center expansion.
