Thinking Machines Lab Bought Inference Instead of Building It. That Is the New Line Item.
A $65 million deal shows managed inference is now bought, not built. Crusoe's managed inference line passed $100M ARR in under a year.
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A $65 million deal shows managed inference is now bought, not built. Crusoe's managed inference line passed $100M ARR in under a year.
OpenAI and Anthropic both cut inference cost per token on the same night. The cache, not the model, decided who won.
NVIDIA open sourced Topograph, which brings topology-aware GPU scheduling to Kubernetes by publishing live fabric data as node labels.
The Texas data center permit freeze is now total. ERCOT's queue holds 445.8 GW of requests against an 85.5 GW peak, and two audits decide what connects.
Hardware enclaves and attestation move confidential computing out of pilot programs and into a shipping product. The operator holds no key.
Arista's July VeloCloud fix is vulnerable to the September zero day. Patching on schedule exposed operators twice.
CoreWeave's new key custody model keeps decryption keys in the customer's own store. The AI cloud holds ciphertext and nothing else.
ShinyHunters says a PeopleSoft zero day handed it 2 to 3 terabytes, including home addresses for nearly every FBI agent. No patch would have stopped it.
Sidero Labs sold to Yardi and added Talos Hypervisor, a native hypervisor inside the Kubernetes OS. VMs and containers now share one immutable host.
Google's AX v0.3.0 moved agent state in etcd out of the critical path. Task state now lives in Redis, and the lesson travels further than the code.
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