Industry & Platforms

Stripe agreed to acquire AI model router OpenRouter for roughly $7 billion, folding model routing into payments infrastructure.

Stripe and Advent Partners proposed acquiring PayPal for $53 billion.

Groq’s custom LPU chips are becoming a credible alternative to NVIDIA GPUs for AI inference workloads, forcing infrastructure teams to rethink their compute

Anthropic just bought all 300+ MW of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data centre.

AWS and Azure are aggressively expanding their edge computing offerings for industrial IoT, bringing cloud-native tooling to factory floors and field

CES 2026 opens with edge AI and IoT taking center stage, signaling a shift from cloud-first to edge-first architectures.

The Matter smart home protocol reaches version 1.4, and while progress has been slower than promised, the interoperability story is finally getting convincing.

A viral post about Slack’s massive price increase highlights the growing problem of SaaS cost escalation and what engineering teams can do about it.

Apple Vision Pro launches tomorrow and the developer ecosystem is already forming. Here’s what spatial computing means for the rest of us who build software.

The Matter protocol reaches version 1.2, expanding device support and inching closer to the interoperability promise that IoT has needed for years.

Unity’s announcement of a per-install runtime fee has sent shockwaves through the game development community, and the lessons extend far beyond gaming.

Google’s Web Environment Integrity API proposal has the web development community up in arms, and the concerns are well-founded.