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Accelerant Holdings (NYSE:ARX) shares rose about 57% after Thoma Bravo agreed to acquire the company for $4 billion. The offer price is $20.25 per share, a 49% premium to the prior close. ARX said shareholders may receive a 6% annual ticking fee if regulatory approvals delay closing, expected in H1.

IonQ said it completed its acquisition of SkyWater Technology at end-July for about $1.8 billion, including about $741 million cash and ~24 million newly issued IonQ shares. The deal was announced in January and cleared by regulators in late July. SkyWater reported about $442 million revenue in 2025. IonQ expects fault-tolerant milestones, with functional testing of 200,000-qubit processors in 2028.

Curaleaf launched an unsolicited offer to buy Aurora Cannabis for $272 million, or $4 per share, about a 45% premium to Aurora’s 30-day VWAP, aiming for about $1.5 billion revenue, $350 million adjusted EBITDA, and $40 million annual cost synergies. The article also discusses whether Canopy Growth could be a future acquisition target, citing its turnaround and global medical cannabis platform.

Core Scientific completed its $444.3 million cash acquisition of Polaris DS, gaining about 440MW of gross, grid-connected power capacity in Muskogee, Oklahoma, via land, a substation and electricity-service agreements, not Polaris’s mining business. Deal closed Aug. 13, 2026. Core Scientific may pay an extra $40 million for 40MW if firm capacity is added before Dec. 31. It plans to shift from mining to colocation.

BP said it will acquire Woodside Energy’s 70% interest in Block TTDAA 14, the Calypso early-stage deepwater natural gas project in Trinidad and Tobago, taking 100% ownership and operatorship. Woodside’s exit follows BP’s 30% stake. Calypso has estimated reserves of 3.5 Tcf, with appraisal drilling in 2021 finding hydrocarbons. Deal includes cash and contingent payments, expected to close by end-2026, subject to approvals.

Reuters reports Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $3 billion in SB Energy, a SoftBank Group subsidiary, tied to an Ohio data centre campus for OpenAI. The talks include about $100 billion in credit support. The Information says Nvidia may invest half at deal signing and half around SB Energy’s IPO, aiming next month to raise at least $5 billion.