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Deals in which business software vendors buy other companies, commonly to add a product capability to an existing platform.
Workday signed a definitive agreement to acquire C1.ai, an agentic identity platform, with closing expected in the quarter ending Jan. 31, 2027. With C1.ai, Workday says it will become the identity governance layer for people, money and agents.
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Workday has signed a deal to buy C1.ai, an identity governance firm that decides what people and AI agents can touch. Bhusri says Workday's agents run on one security model, so folding C1.ai into it is the first test.
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Automation Anywhere has agreed to buy conversational voice AI firm Boost.ai, which has handled more than 150 million automated conversations. The purchase from Nordic Capital takes the automation vendor into regulated-industry customer work in Europe, where Boost.ai's base is concentrated.
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Salesforce agreed to pay about $2 billion for Listen Labs, roughly 67 times the AI interview startup's $30 million in annualized revenue. The price holds up only if selling those real-customer interviews through Salesforce's clouds lifts that revenue several times over.
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Salesforce agreed to buy AI interview startup Listen Labs at a reported $2 billion, about 67 times its estimated revenue. Salesforce says the data will give its agents context, without saying how Listen's simulated customer answers are checked against real ones.
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Salesforce agreed to buy AI interview startup Listen Labs at a reported $2 billion that neither company has confirmed. Buyers get interviews with real participants alongside digital twins whose accuracy against real customers Salesforce has yet to show.
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Dynatrace is buying Arize's tracing and response-quality evaluation for AI agents. Both product chiefs said their own customers had asked for the other side's telemetry, on a podcast where an analyst put most organizations at six to 15 observability tools.
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