GoKawiilApple acquires AI data engineering startup Ascend.io
Apple has acquired Ascension Labs, Inc., known as Ascend.io, according to a disclosure required under the EU's Digital Markets Act. The deal is structured as an acquihire, giving Apple the right to hire certain Ascend employees, a non-exclusive license to its intellectual property, and assignment of certain patents. Ascend.io, founded in 2015, built an 'Agentic Data Engineering' platform using AI agents to automate data pipeline tasks.