IBM Acquires Confluent for $11B: Real-Time Data Wins AI
IBM announced an $11 billion all-cash acquisition of Confluent on December 8, 2025, paying $31 per share—a 33% premium. This isn’t just another ...
AWS re:Invent 2025: Kiro AI Agent, Trainium3, Lambda
AWS re:Invent 2025 wrapped last week with announcements that could reshape cloud development: autonomous AI ...
IBM’s $11B Confluent Bet: Kafka Goes Mainstream as Antitrust Chaos Looms
IBM acquires Confluent for $11B, making Kafka enterprise-critical. But antitrust concerns, cultural clash, and data ...
AWS Kiro: 18-Month Project Done in 76 Days
AWS Kiro autonomous coding agent shrunk a 30-dev, 18-month project to 6 devs in 76 ...
AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless Meets EC2 Power
AWS just broke the serverless ceiling at re:Invent 2025. Lambda Managed Instances combines Lambda’s zero-infrastructure ...
Infracost Raises $15M to Shift FinOps Left: Full Story
Infracost, a developer-centric FinOps platform that integrates cloud cost estimation directly into code reviews, raised $15 million Series A in November 2025. Pruven ...
Microservices Regret: Amazon Saved 90%, Segment Went From 140 to 1
Amazon Prime Video slashed costs by 90% after abandoning microservices for a monolithic architecture. Segment, ...
AWS Trainium3 Matches NVIDIA: 50% Cheaper AI Training
AWS Trainium3 matches NVIDIA GB300 at 0.36 ExaFLOPS with 50% cost savings. Anthropic's 500K chip ...
Amazon Nova 2 Omni: First AI with Unified Multimodal Reasoning
AWS Nova 2 Omni: first AI with unified multimodal reasoning + generation. Compare to GPT-4o, ...
Microsoft Slashes AI Sales Targets 50%: Reality Check
Microsoft says AI sales quotas haven’t been lowered. They just cut growth targets in half—from ...
