ON Semiconductor agreed to acquire Synaptics in a nearly $7 billion all-stock transaction that accelerates its physical AI expansion and lifts its total addressable market to $243 billion by 2030. The deal, the company's largest to date, is slated to close in mid-2027 amid a surge in AI-related buyouts industrywide.
The deal accelerates ON Semi's push into physical AI.
Technology companies are hitting acquisition mode in a race to strengthen AI capabilities.
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DeepSeek has opened web search, file input, URL reading, and safety checks on the deepseek-flash API. Search, Fetch, OCR, speech recognition, and text-to-speech are also available as standalone calls.
Anthropic has published 10 recommendations for designing, running, and reporting safety evaluations. The company has paused many tests that give models internet access and now monitors the web-search tests that still need a connection.
LangChain has raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation in a Series C led by CapitalG. More than 7,000 organizations use LangSmith, and a release event on November 20 will cover new capabilities.
Mercor has raised a $750 million Series D that values the company at $20 billion. The round includes an employee tender, and the company has not said how much of the total is new capital.
Intel is working with RadixArk to optimize SGLang, an open-source inference stack, for Intel CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators. The November 12 release does not include a speed figure.
