Altaris will buy RTP‑based Simulations Plus for about $375M, taking the drug‑development software company private while pledging to keep its headquarters in the Triangle.

Raleigh advisory firm Opex bought Dallas-based Intellys and says it will expand rapidly — including plans to roughly double its size — as it builds a national technology-advisory platform.

Red Hat and IBM launched Project Lightwell, a $5B initiative pairing AI and thousands of engineers to hunt and patch open-source vulnerabilities. The effort spotlights Raleigh's tech role.