Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
Three things builders should know Two deals, one signal. On 28 May 2026 Asana closed its $75M acquisition of StackAI, a no-code agent-builder. A day later, on 29 May, Palo Alto Networks completed its purchase of AI-gateway company Portkey. The price for Portkey was undisclosed. The stack is splitting. Orchestration and execution (StackAI) and the gateway and security control plane (Portkey) are now treated as separate, independently valuable layers — alongside the model layer and observability. That is the part worth internalising. Build-vs-buy just got easier to reason about. When each layer is its own product category, you can decide layer by layer rather than committing to one platform. For most Indian and UK teams the answer is: buy the gateway, buy or assemble observability, and only…
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