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TechCrunch 2 months ago 43 ● 7 sources
Silicon Data raised $30 million to create a reference price and index for GPU rental so Wall Street can hedge AI compute costs. The startup plans to launch compute futures trading on the CME on October 5, pending regulatory approval. If approved, GPU compute pricing and hedging tied to the index and futures contract become available through CME trading.
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20 October 2026
AI infrastructure is getting a very practical second act today: making agents faster to start, cheaper to run, and easier to govern once they’re running. Daytona, which sells an “agentic cloud” built around VMs for agent “computers,” raised $60 million in a Series B and landed at a $1 billion valuation, targeting 60-millisecond sandbox provisioning—an attempt to knock down the latency tax that makes agents feel sluggish between steps. IBM, Red Hat, and others also pushed llm-d framework 1.0, adding operational controls for in-house distributed inference, including multi-tenant QoS, zero-downtime upgrades, and router behavior measured on an agentic coding test that reportedly captured 97% cache reuse.
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