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Enterprise AI’s $157bn Shopping Spree Targets Data Pipelines, Not Models

April 24, 2026 by Sarah Chen

5 min readEnterprise software incumbents spent more than $157bn on AI acquisitions in 2025. The defining pattern is not talent or models — it is data pipelines, governance tooling, and real-time infrastructure.

Categories Tech Economy Tags AI, enterprise AI, enterprise-software, M&A Leave a comment

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