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Salesforce signed a deal to buy Fin, the customer-service AI agent company formerly called Intercom, for about $3.6 billion to add fast-to-deploy service agents alongside Agentforce.

On 22 June 2026 AbbVie agreed to acquire Apogee Therapeutics for US$135.11 per share in cash, a total equity value of about US$10.9 billion, adding the IL-13 antibody zumilokibart for atopic dermatitis.

Qualcomm agreed to buy Modular, Chris Lattner's startup whose AI software runs models across CPUs, GPUs, NPUs and custom chips without rewrites, in an all-stock deal of up to 19.2 million shares valued at about $3.9 billion.

On 25 June 2026 Merck KGaA agreed to acquire Minneapolis-based Bio-Techne for US$73 per share in cash, an enterprise value of US$11.3 billion, with closing expected by late 2026 or early 2027.

SanMar closes its acquisition of Bella+Canvas, separating the blank T-shirt maker from its sister brand Alo Yoga, a step Reuters says readies Alo for a public offering or sale.

On 29 June 2026 Rocket Lab and Iridium Communications announced a definitive agreement under which Rocket Lab will buy Iridium for US$54 a share in cash and stock, an enterprise value of about US$8.0 billion.

Cooke Inc. agreed to buy Mowi's Atlantic Canada salmon farms - hatcheries, sea sites and two processing plants in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, with 250 staff - for CAD 225 million.

On 6 July 2026 Lockheed Martin signed a definitive agreement to acquire anti-submarine warfare specialist Ultra Maritime from Advent for US$3.45 billion.

SalMar agreed to buy the Måsøval family's 70% stake in fellow Frøya salmon farmer Måsøval for NOK 39.50 a share, about NOK 3.4 billion, valuing the whole company at NOK 4.84 billion.

Jack Daniel's maker Brown-Forman said Sazerac's unsolicited offer, reported at $32 a share or about $15 billion, was 'not actionable' after the Brown family's majority holding said it did not fit their vision.

Qualcomm closed its all-stock takeover of Modular, valued at about $3.1 billion at closing; Mojo, MAX and Modular Cloud carry on as brands and co-founder Chris Lattner becomes a Qualcomm executive vice president.

Johnson & Johnson closed its $1 billion cash purchase of Firefly Bio, the South San Francisco biotech behind the Firelink degrader antibody conjugate platform for KRAS-driven and other hard-to-treat solid tumours.

Etsy closed the sale of resale marketplace Depop to eBay for about $1.4 billion in cash, including purchase-price adjustments and interest, five months after the deal was announced.

On 30 July 2026 Intercontinental Exchange announced a definitive agreement to acquire the fixed-income trading platform MarketAxess for US$167 a share in cash, an equity value of about US$6.0 billion, expected to close in the first half of 2027.

On 12 August 2026 Goldman Sachs announced an agreement to acquire NEOS Investments, an options-based income ETF provider managing US$30 billion, for up to US$2.25 billion in cash and equity.

Ferrero signed to buy Purely Elizabeth, the Boulder, Colorado granola, oatmeal and cereal brand whose sales more than doubled in two years, adding to its WK Kellogg breakfast business.

On 18 August 2026 Goldman Sachs announced an agreement to acquire LCN Capital Partners, a triple net lease and sale-leaseback manager with about US$3 billion under supervision, for up to about US$410 million.

Lilly agrees to buy Merida Biosciences, whose Phase 1 MER511 is built to destroy the autoantibodies behind Graves' disease and thyroid eye disease, for up to $2.875 billion in cash.

Salesforce closed its roughly $1.5 billion purchase of Contentful, adding the headless content platform to Headless 360 so Agentforce can assemble personalised content across channels.

NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face, the open-model hub used by more than 18 million developers, for $12,930,300,000, and says the platform will stay open to other chips, clouds and model makers.

Salesforce closed its roughly $3.6 billion purchase of Fin, formerly Intercom, whose AI customer agent resolves an average 76% of queries and now sits in Salesforce's AI Labs.

Qualcomm agreed to acquire PickNik, the Boulder robotics software company behind the open-source MoveIt manipulation framework, promising to keep MoveIt open while tying it closely to Dragonwing robotics chips and Arduino boards.

On 28 September 2026 AMD announced a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, the spatial-intelligence AI lab led by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about US$8.2 billion. Li will become AMD executive vice president and chief scientist; closing is expected by the end of 2026.

GAC Group disclosed a plan to issue shares to acquire China FAW's 50% of FAW Toyota, which would give GAC stakes in both of Toyota's China joint ventures; FAW would become GAC's second-largest shareholder.

NVIDIA expects to complete its roughly $11.9 billion purchase of Hugging Face in the first half of 2027, once regulators approve the deal.