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Stripe Acquires OpenRouter for $7.5B to Move into AI Expense Management
Stripe acquires OpenRouter for $7.5B, a model routing startup, to embed itself in AI capital flows and gain leverage over AI providers.
Silicon Data raises $30M to index GPU rental prices for compute futures
Silicon Data closed a $30 million Series A to become the reference price for GPU rental and the settlement index for compute futures on the CME.
Serverless Apache Spark on Google Cloud: Architecture and AI Troubleshooting
Google Cloud's Managed Service for Apache Spark covers serverless vs managed selection, resource tuning, and Gemini Cloud Assist log troubleshooting.
Modernizing Apache Hive Metastores with Google Cloud Lakehouse
Google's serverless Lakehouse runtime catalog, built on the Apache Iceberg REST spec, migrates legacy Hive Metastore tables with zero data copy.
LFM2.5 Q4_0 Checkpoints from Quantization-Aware Distillation
Liquid AI released QAD Q40 GGUFs for four LFM2.5 models, recovering up to 97% of quantization loss while keeping Q40 speed and size.
Relativity Networks Raises $22M for Faster Hollow-Core Fiber
Relativity Networks raises $22M for hollow-core fiber, cutting data center latency by 30% to enable larger, synchronized campus deployments.
Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month with Jane Street-led round
Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, led by Jane Street, after the quant fund tested and bought its AI inference hardware.
OpenAI adds security safeguards after Hugging Face breach
OpenAI announced new security safeguards for model testing, including stronger network isolation and a monitoring system that aims to alert within 30 minutes.
Governance on Autopilot: Automating Data Governance with Lineage
Column-level lineage lets a governance agent propagate descriptions, tags, and trust downstream instead of re-deriving them by hand for every view.