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Microsoft Launches Frontier Company With $2.5 Billion AI Engineering Investment

Kroger To Acquire Giant Eagle For $1.65 Billion

Magnify Ventures Closes $46.6 Million Fund II To Build AI Infrastructure Layer Of The Care Economy

Kling AI Raises $2.8 Billion To Expand AI Video Business

Marlinspike Closes Oversubscribed $127 Million Fund II To Invest In Dual-Use Technologies

Houlihan Lokey To Buy Intrepid Financial Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:50 AM

Houlihan Lokey announced that it has agreed to acquire Intrepid Financial Partners. The transaction was signed on June 27, 2026, and is expected to close before September 30, 2026, subject to regulatory approval.

Kaltura: Interview With CTO Dr. Alan Bekker About The Video Experience Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:48 AM

Kaltura provides a cloud-based Video Experience Platform that allows enterprises, educational institutions, and media companies to create, manage, deliver, and monetize live and on-demand video. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Kaltura CTO Dr. Alan Bekker to learn more.

Datadog Acquires Adaptive ML

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:40 AM

Datadog announced that it has acquired Adaptive ML, a frontier AI startup focused on helping enterprises build, own, and deploy specialized agents and models. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Brookfield And Bloom Energy Expand AI Infrastructure Partnership To $25 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 2:31 PM

Bloom Energy and Brookfield announced the expansion of their strategic partnership as Brookfield increases its framework to finance power projects for AI infrastructure. The framework has increased from the previously announced $5 billion to $25 billion, representing a fivefold expansion since October 2025.

Why United Therapeutics Acquired Thymmune Therapeutics For Up To $300 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 2:28 PM

United Therapeutics announced that it has acquired Thymmune Therapeutics, a privately held preclinical-stage biotechnology company. Thymmune is developing scalable regenerative thymic cell therapies for the potential treatment of post-transplant organ tolerance, immunodeficiencies, and autoimmune diseases.

Genel Energy Acquiring Capricorn Energy For $360 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 2:24 PM

Genel Energy announced that its indirect subsidiary Genel Energy No.9 Limited has reached an agreement to acquire Capricorn Energy through a recommended cash acquisition. The transaction will be implemented through a Scottish scheme of arrangement under Part 26 of the Companies Act 2006.

geoSurge Raises $12 Million Seed Round To Advance AI Visibility Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 1:50 PM

geoSurge announced an oversubscribed $12 million Seed round. The financing was led by AlbionVC and included participation from Play Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Celero Ventures, Boost Capital, existing investors Passion Capital and Tuesday Capital, and angel investors from Google DeepMind, Microsoft AI, and Signal AI.

Poindexter Labs: Interview With Founder & CEO Jocelyn D’Arcy About The Expert Reasoning Data Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 11:12 AM

Poindexter Labs is an expert reasoning data company building high-fidelity training data for frontier AI models using an academic peer-review model rather than factory workflows. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Poindexter Labs founder and CEO Jocelyn D’Arcy to learn more.

Thunkable: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Arun Saigal About The No-Code App Development Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 11:04 AM

Thunkable is a no-code app development platform that empowers anyone to design, develop, and publish custom, native mobile applications for iOS and Android without writing a single line of code. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Thunkable co-founder and CEO Arun Saigal to learn more.

Amazon AWS Invests $1 Billion To Embed AI Forward Deployed Engineers With Customers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 10:46 AM

Amazon AWS announced a $1 billion investment to create a dedicated AWS Forward Deployed Engineering organization. The new organization will embed AWS engineers directly with customer teams to co-develop and deploy agentic AI solutions.