change of control

OpenAI's NextSlide deal closed early in 2026 and only surfaced on August 8, when the founder posted a goodbye note — five months after he joined OpenAI in March. In this wave of AI acqui-hires the product dies in seven to thirty days and the data is deleted weeks later — so the export window has to be contractual, not assumed.

Visa is paying $2.4 billion in cash for BioCatch, the behavioral-biometrics layer running inside more than 350 banks. Neither announcement commits to network neutrality, standalone pricing or data limits — and the roughly eight months before close is the only window in which a bank client can get those in writing.

Klaviyo's press release says it acquired Agency's team and technology. Agency's own homepage says the product winds down on August 31 — 26 days after the announcement. That gap between the acquirer's asset language and the target's own notice is the reliable tell for an AI acqui-hire.

AlixPartners announced its completed acquisition of agentic AI consultancy Artium on 4 August 2026. Your build partner now sits inside a restructuring firm that advises creditors, takes CRO seats, and files Rule 2014 connection disclosures naming its clients.

Airtable bundles 15,000 AI credits into a $20 seat and sells the same allowance standalone for $30. Bending Spoons — which capped Evernote's free tier and moved to cut 75% of WeTransfer — just bought that subsidy. The deal has not closed, which is the only window you have to convert it into contract terms.

Anaconda acquired Enkrypt AI on August 4 for undisclosed terms, putting the red-teaming vendor you chose for its neutrality inside a platform company. The bigger exposure is the license: Anaconda spent 2024 and 2025 enforcing a 200-employee 'free' threshold with demand letters that threatened back bills, and Enkrypt's $0 and $149 self-serve tiers now belong to it.

d-Matrix acquired Wallaroo.ai on 3 August 2026, taking ownership of a platform sold as 'any model, any hardware, anywhere'. Neither company committed to keeping third-party silicon supported — which turns a portability guarantee into a roadmap you do not control.

Yellow.ai's $550M merger with Bluerock Acquisition Corp. funds a plan to buy BPO operators and automate them. The committed capital is $30M, not the $205M headline — and the acquisition targets are the same outsourcers already running its software.