Three AI Agent Startups Were Acquired in Two Weeks. Each One Became a Feature.

Palo Alto Networks, Adobe and Meta each bought an agent startup in early September, in a quarter where only 8 of the 175 AI deals we tracked were acquisitions. Here is what the buyers paid for, why one price was three times the last private mark, and two questions to ask if your vendor or your startup is next.

India Just Published the Number Everyone Else Leaves Out

Three different kinds of capital landed in India in one week. Only one of them said how much electricity it would need, and that disclosure tells you more than the dollar figure attached to it.