Mike Cannon-Brookes, the CEO of enterprise software giant Atlassian, was one of the first users of the Arc browser. Over the last several years, he has been a prolific bug reporter and feature requester. Now he'll own the thing: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company, the New York-based startup that makes both Arc and the new AI-focused Dia browser. Atlassian is paying $610 million in cash for The Browser Company, and plans to run it as an independent entity.
"Small and mid-sized businesses are facing a perfect storm of complexity: unknown risks living within unknown apps and AI services," said Don MacLennan, Chief Product Officer at LastPass.
Over the past few weeks, VMware customers holding onto their perpetual licenses, which are often unsupported and in limbo, have reportedly begun receiving formal cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom.
"You can get the CRO to literally see all the way down to this last level of detail through our platform with, like, five key strokes, as opposed to a process which involves five individuals, including some analysts, and a whole lot of time."
Agentic AI has become a priority with enterprises everywhere as a new model that can potentially replace enterprise software as we understand it today. With today's announcement, we're making it easy for customers to build their distributed systems, including agentic AI systems, without having to commit to the Akka Platform.