{"id":983549,"date":"2026-01-06T08:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983549"},"modified":"2026-01-06T08:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:11:24","slug":"ai-acqui-hire-is-the-new-age-growth-mantra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/06\/ai-acqui-hire-is-the-new-age-growth-mantra\/","title":{"rendered":"AI + acqui-hire is the new-age growth mantra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As AI talent wars intensified, Big Tech companies spent nearly $40 billion to secure the most valuable asset in the AI race: people. One theme that dominated headlines amid billion-dollar M&amp;As in the AI sector was the acqui-hire. These deals were focused on retaining founders, researchers, and engineering teams from joining competition, rather than procuring the startup\u2019s product or revenue. ET\u2019s Himanshi Lohchab looks at the largest acqui-hires of the season:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As AI talent wars intensified, Big Tech companies spent nearly $40 billion to secure the most valuable asset in the AI race: people. One theme that dominated headlines amid billion-dollar M&amp;As in the AI sector was the acqui-hire. These deals were focused on retaining founders, researchers, and engineering teams from joining competition, rather than procuring the startup\u2019s product or revenue. ET\u2019s Himanshi Lohchab looks at the largest acqui-hires of the season:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}