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Stripe reportedly agreed to buy OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, highlighting the growing value of AI model gateways and infrastructure.
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Google has paid $10 million in a bankruptcy auction for a large amount of data from the defunct Spirit Airlines, Bloomberg Law reports.
The purchase includes 100 million emails, 500 million messages, data from Microsoft Teams, as well as information on revenue, flight operations, marketing, personnel, and project management. The material also includes 30 million lines of program code, development data, and various software models and algorithms, as well as pricing data from 7.2 billion competing flights and approximately 7.5 billion passenger transactions.
No personal data will be included in the deal, and according to Google, a third party will review the material and remove any information that could identify individuals. Google said the data will then be used to improve the company's products and AI models.
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The data center, one of the world's largest, could cost as much as $500 billion and will be leased by OpenAI.
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Meta rolled out a new 30-billion-parameter AI model optimized to run on a PC or Mac with a single GPU on Monday, offering a way to run always-on agentic workflows locally rather than relying on the cloud.
The company has dubbed it Muse Glimmer. However, its hardware demands, including a GPU with a minimum of 24GB of VRAM, could make it difficult to justify for deployment at scale.
Although analysts and consultants agree that there is a tremendous enterprise appetite for running models locally, determining whether switching more systems from cloud to local makes fiscal sense is much more complex.
The hardware costs are tricky to calculate even today, with the VRAM needed depending on the particular applications to be run. But the far bigger consideration is that there is no way to determine what RAM costs will look like over the next 12-18 months, and there is an identical lack of visibility into how cloud prices might increase during the same timeframe.
That makes determining the better financial choice impossible.
Agents become capex, not opex
Noah Kenney, principal consultant at Digital 520, noted that since RAM costs have increased "exponentially" over the last 12 months, cloud AI providers are also going to have to increase their prices. Beyond that, IT needs to anticipate logistical is
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Unitree reached a nearly $9 billion IPO valuation as new FCC restrictions on certain foreign-made connected robots reshape the global robotics landscape.
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Claims by a billionaire TV star and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that China and overseas propaganda drive American protests against data centers are based on scant evidence.
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