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TechCrunch 2 months ago 41
Cognition acquired Poke, an AI messaging assistant known for conversational personality, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. Poke users exchanged over 100 million messages in the past three months before the acquisition. Cognition plans to integrate Poke's interaction style into its coding assistant Devin and use its own models to make Poke faster and more reliable.
TechCrunch 2 months ago 44 ● 2 sources
Midjourney has acquired Co-Star, a social astrology app with 4.3 million monthly active users that generates horoscopes and compatibility assessments using AI and human writing. The acquisition brings Co-Star's 24-person team to Midjourney, which could help the AI lab develop a standalone consumer app beyond its Discord-based image generator. Midjourney is expanding its product portfolio to include medical and wellness offerings alongside its core generative AI services.
The Verge 2 months ago 52 ● 2 sources
Midjourney acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, which provides daily horoscopes and compatibility checks combining human insight, NASA data, and AI. The deal closed in spring with undisclosed terms. Midjourney expands beyond image generation into astrology services through this acquisition.
The Wall Street Journal 2 months ago 37
Stripe is negotiating to acquire OpenRouter, a platform that routes developer requests to different AI models. Industry experts value the deal at approximately $10 billion. The acquisition would give Stripe direct access to AI model infrastructure and expand its payments ecosystem into AI services.
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19 October 2026
Agentic AI is leaving the lab and heading straight into the messy parts of work—then running into the equally messy parts of security. Atlassian’s “Agentic Multiplayer Protocol” is built around attribution, showing agent contributions in document history so accountability stays with the user, not “the AI did it.” That governance impulse is echoed elsewhere as teams try to treat agents like managed services instead of novelty software: Pax8’s 8os lets IT partners govern multiple vendors’ agents with per-customer separation and hard usage caps, while Motive Technologies pushes fleet automation from passive alerts to autonomous actions, pitching faster ROI through fewer preventable operational problems. Even property management is getting the agent layer, with Vessla aiming to coordinate leasing and building operations while keeping human approval for judgment calls.
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