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A widely syndicated Business Insider story on Wall Street's push to turn Nvidia GPUs into a tradeable financial asset class names Ornn, alongside Silicon Data and Compute Desk, as one of the companies building price indexes meant to standardize GPU rental prices for a future compute futures market.

Vercel announced that Liquid AI's 'd1' decision model is now available through its AI Gateway, letting developers evaluate typed questions for classification, routing, and scoring (including vision support) via the AI SDK, an OpenAI-compatible Decisions API, or a TypeSafe-compatible API.

Coverage of the Spirit Airlines bankruptcy data auction notes that Mercor, an AI data company, was the alternate/backup bidder at $7.5 million after Google's winning $10 million bid for the airline's internal data archive.

AI training firm Mercor published a new benchmark showing Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 scored 100% on a realistic month-end accounting close test, versus a 37% average for practicing CPAs, and did so faster and far more cheaply.

Starcloud, the Redmond, WA-based space-compute startup led by CEO Philip Johnston, is featured in a weekly funding roundup as having closed a $250 million round led by Manhattan West Ventures, with Nvidia, Cisco, Benchmark and EQT participating, to fund orbital data-center satellite manufacturing.

Liquid AI released two new open-weight 'decision' models, d1-3B and d1-omni-600M, which answer in a single forward pass without generating tokens, aimed at ultra-low-latency use cases like gesture-controlled games and live content moderation.