Data deals: Week 20, 2026 (11 May to 17 May)
3 deals announced this week. ✓ Reviewed: read and analysed by Gianluca. Others are short summaries of the public record.
- 2026-05-17 · Publicis Groupe · LiveRamp
Publicis agrees to acquire LiveRamp for proprietary data collaboration and identity assets✓
Publicis Groupe agreed on 17 May 2026 to acquire LiveRamp in an all-cash deal at $38.5 per share, a 29.8% premium to the 15 May closing price, to fold LiveRamp's identity resolution and data collaboration platform into Publicis alongside Epsilon (2019) and Lotame (2025).
- 2026-05-13 · Owkin · AstraZeneca
Owkin signs three-year K Pro licensing agreement with AstraZeneca and will build AI agents
On 13 May 2026, Owkin announced a three-year agreement licensing its K Pro AI Scientist to AstraZeneca, under which Owkin will lead end-to-end development of biopharma AI agents running on K Pro and integrated within AstraZeneca's IT infrastructure and decision workflows.
- 2026-05-13 · Chegg
Chegg pivots to licensing decade of proprietary STEM academic content and expert network to AI labs✓
On 13 May 2026, Chegg announced it will license a decade of proprietary STEM step-by-step solutions and its calibrated subject-matter expert network to frontier AI labs for training and evaluation, with early customers including Magnificent Seven members. At a ~$112M market cap, Chegg is selling both the archive and the ongoing expert work, but has little leverage to price what the trained weights retain.