AI News Digest · Aug 5

Bending Spoons, an Italian app developer, agreed to acquire Airtable, a project-management software company, for $1.28 billion in an all-stock deal. The acquisition is expected to expand Bending Spoons' portfolio of productivity tools and marks one of the largest deals in the sector this year.

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