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Amazon is in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for around $7 billion, a month after Anthropic withdrew as preferred bidder following completed due diligence. Cloudflare acquired Deno, bringing Node.js creator Ryan Dahl onto the Workers team. The White House made AI security incident reporting mandatory, and Manus closed over $500 million led by Tencent.

Cloudflare announced on 10 October that it is acquiring Deno, the runtime company co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl. Terms were not disclosed. Cloudflare says open source prevents lock-in; critics say buying the open alternative is the lock-in. Both arguments are worth hearing.

Amazon is in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for around $7 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Anthropic was the preferred bidder in August at a similar price and withdrew in September after completing due diligence. Decart builds software that moves AI workloads between chips from different manufacturers — which is exactly what a company building its own silicon would want.