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News April 4, 2026

Anthropic Acquires Coefficient Bio for $400 Million to Build Drug Discovery Agents

Anthropic paid $400 million in stock for a stealth biotech startup with fewer than 10 employees, all former Genentech researchers. The team joins Anthropic's healthcare and life sciences division to build AI agents for drug discovery, clinical trial planning, and regulatory documentation. The acquisition comes the same week Anthropic cut off third-party agent platforms from Claude subscriptions.

News March 20, 2026

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Moltbook Had Over a Million User Credentials Exposed Before Meta Acquired It

Cybersecurity firm Wiz discovered an unsecured Moltbook database leaking personal messages, 6,000+ email addresses, and over one million user credentials. The breach predated Meta's March 10 acquisition and helps explain the aggressive new terms of service that followed days later.

News March 19, 2026

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OpenAI Owns OpenClaw, Meta Owns Moltbook: The Agentic AI Duopoly Is Now Official

CNET confirmed during GTC 2026 coverage that OpenAI acquired OpenClaw after it went viral, while Meta picked up its social spin-off Moltbook. The two largest AI companies now control the core infrastructure and social layer of the agentic internet.

News March 18, 2026

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IBM Closes $11 Billion Confluent Acquisition, Betting Enterprise AI Agents Need Real-Time Data Infrastructure

IBM completed its acquisition of Confluent, the Apache Kafka-based data streaming platform used by 40% of the Fortune 500, for $11 billion. The deal integrates real-time data streaming directly into watsonx, IBM MQ, and IBM Z — positioning IBM to sell the data layer that enterprise AI agents need to function in production rather than on stale daily snapshots.

News March 15, 2026

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Meta Acquires Moltbook — The Platform That Made OpenClaw Famous

Meta has acquired Moltbook, the social platform credited with launching OpenClaw's viral explosion in January 2026, raising questions about what the acquisition means for the open-source agent ecosystem.

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