verdict.co.uk / .verdict-co-uk / Page 8

IBM has agreed to acquire HRL Laboratories, an US-based research and development entity jointly owned by Boeing and General Motors.

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, reported a 298% rise in net income to $112.1bn for Q2 2026, compared to $28.2bn in Q2 2025.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Kirkland & Ellis led legal advisory activity in TMT M&A for the first half (H1) of 2026.

CrowdStrike and Cerebras Systems to combine cybersecurity and AI inference speed to improve enterprise threat detection and response.

Morgan Stanley and Houlihan Lokey have been named the leading financial advisers for M&A in the TMT sector during the first half of 2026.

Anthropic plans to deploy up to 2GW of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in AMD Helios rack-scale systems, as part of a major partnership with AMD.