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September 24, 2026

Akamai lands big Anthropic deal valued up to $20 billion

Tech Optimization
Akamai landed a cloud deal with Anthropic that could be worth as much as $11.6 billion over seven years. The deal, which is focused on distributed infrastructure and software, revo...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
September 22, 2026

OpenAI adds GPT-6 Luna and Sol, touts lower prices

Data to Decisions
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna in a fast follow to GPT-6 Astra. As OpenAI rounded out its GPT-6 family it also signaled that prices would come down. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
September 22, 2026

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, gets cost, efficiency memo

Data to Decisions
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 and gave a nod to customers who were not happy with their AI costs. According to Anthropic, Claude Opus 5.5 costs 40% less to run than Opus 5. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
September 20, 2026

Nvidia’s Nemotron hit enterprise AI inflection point

Data to Decisions
Nvidia's open Nemotron models are at an inflection point where they're likely to be the most dominant AI tools for enterprises. Simply put, you'll either tailor Nemotron models on ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
September 6, 2026

Why you should arbitrage your AI models like your vendors do

Data to Decisions
Enterprise software vendors are arbitraging open weight models, developing their own options and using the frontier AI labs when needed. Take notes since you'll likely be doing the...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
September 3, 2026

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra

Future of Work
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra to customers in its Daybreak program. Astra will roll out to a select group of customers before broad availability....
Larry Dignan
Insights News
September 3, 2026

Will enterprises learn to love Meta AI models again?

Data to Decisions
Meta released Muse Spark 1.3 and said it improves coding and agentic tasks, promised that Watermelon, an improved model is on deck, and said Muse Spark open weight releases are com...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
September 1, 2026

Z.ai reports first half results, sales surge

Data to Decisions
Z.ai, the Chinese AI company behind the leading open GLM models, reported its first half results. Z.ai launched its IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in January....
Larry Dignan
Insights News
August 19, 2026

Stripe buys OpenRouter

Matrix Commerce
Stripe said it will acquire OpenRouter in a move that looks to combine financial services and payments with model routing and token usage. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
August 19, 2026

Why Google's purchase of Spirit Airlines data matters

Data to Decisions
Google's acquisition of Spirit Airlines data for $10 million could be a punchline or a template for future deals for companies looking to develop industry specific models. Bet on t...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
August 13, 2026

The most important LLM benchmark today: Price

Data to Decisions
The most valuable benchmark for large language models—open and proprietary—is quickly becoming price. Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, which is billed as its most intelligent work...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
August 3, 2026

Palantir: Worst nightmare for OpenAI, Anthropic?

Data to Decisions
Palantir is actively campaigning against foundation model companies, faux forward deployed engineers, tokenomics and benchmark chasing. OpenAI and Anthropic weren't named specifica...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 30, 2026

OpenAI cuts price of GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.6 Terra

Innovation & Product-led Growth
OpenAI said it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by about 80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving performance of the underlying systems....
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 21, 2026

Google launches new Gemini model trio, teases Gemini 4

Data to Decisions
Google launched Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.5 Flash Cyber and focused on efficiency and pricing, but the biggest item may be that the company teased Gemini 4. ...
Larry Dignan
Insights News
July 14, 2026

Is a FINRA-ish group the answer for frontier AI standards?

Data to Decisions
Dennis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, argued in a post on X that frontier AI models need a standard for new releases and FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) serves a...
Larry Dignan