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American Express said it will acquire Hyper, the AI expense-management startup backed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as it pushes deeper into AI-powered tools for business customers. That may sound small next to all the noise around frontier models and billion-dollar compute bets. It is not. Expense management is one of those dull, repetitive, deeply embedded workflows that companies cannot avoid, which is exactly why it is such valuable terrain for AI to capture. Hyper builds AI

Meta said this week that it is expanding its partnership with Broadcom to build several generations of custom AI processors, extending the relationship through 2029 as it races to add more computing capacity across its apps ( Reuters, 2026 ). The AI race is now looking less like a software competition and more like a struggle over who controls the stack. Meta is trying to secure the hardware foundation needed to keep shipping AI at planetary scale. The expanded deal includes

Amazon said on 14th April that it will acquire satellite firm Globalstar in an $11.57 billion deal, strengthening its satellite business as it tries to compete more seriously with SpaceX’s Starlink ( Reuters, 2026 ). Amazon’s satellite ambitions have so far looked more like a project than a position of strength. Buying Globalstar gives it access to an existing satellite constellation, infrastructure, and a faster route into a market where Starlink already has scale, customers