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The Information reported that between late 2024 and early 2025, Arora held a series of meetings with Okta CEO Todd McKinnon. The talks progressed to the point where the companies discussed product complementarity, but ultimately stalled over price disagreements, according to people with knowledge of the discussions cited by The Information. Okta, valued at roughly $13.5 billion at the start of last year, has since climbed around 30%, giving it a market cap near $23 billion.

Datadog has acquired Adaptive ML, an AI startup focused on Reinforcement Learning Operations, to expand its observability and security platform. The deal is aimed at strengthening Datadog's AI research and product capabilities for customers using its monitoring and security tools. Datadog, traded as NasdaqGS:DDOG, is adding Adaptive ML's reinforcement learning expertise to its observability stack at a time when interest in AI driven monitoring is high. The company’s stock has a current...

DDOG acquires Adaptive ML to bring RLOps into its AI Research, aiming to help enterprises build and improve specialized AI agents and models.