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Apple buys Ascend.io, maker of agents for data engineering, a European Union list reveals
The list of acquisitions Apple is required to publish under the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) revealed a deal with Ascension Labs, Ascend.io. It is a team hire: Apple may make offers to employees, receives a non-exclusive license to the intellectual property and may receive patents. Ascend describes itself as a data engineering platform with agents.
Published in edition no. 3 of Noticiário do Joãozinho ·
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Original source
https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/30/apple-acquires-ascend%E2%80%A4io-an-agentic-ai-engineering-startup/