data residency

Alianza bought Skribby, the meeting-bot API behind 200+ notetaker, sales-intelligence and other meeting apps. Its terms allow assignment at will, its DPA gives no remedy on objection, and five of 13 transcription sub-processors are US-only.

Mistral's €3 billion Series D moved its lead investor to Samsung Electronics without changing one customer contract. The same announcement publishes a four-part sovereignty definition that maps to clauses you can actually test — and the European Commission's own reference rubric weights ownership at 15%.

At two million pages a month, Amazon Textract's Forms + Tables + Queries bundle bills $125,000 and a Gemini Flash-Lite schema prompt bills $3,155. The gap is a pricing structure, not a technology gap — buy OCR and field extraction separately.

An independent audit of SystemLanguageModel.default — the ~3B on-device model Apple hands developers — found its self-reported confidence separates right from wrong at AUROC 0.47, below a coin flip, while it confabulated on 69.1% of false-premise questions and refused 18.4% of benign summarization requests. A k=5 consistency wrapper fixes it, at 28.2% coverage on factual QA.

Self-hosting 50 million vectors costs about $1,533/month in reserved compute and roughly $1,800/month in the engineer who runs it. The right reasons to leave a managed vector database are residency, licence and re-pricing risk — not the invoice.

Mistral's EU endpoint reached GA at a 10% upcharge, but its own docs say Agents, Batch and the Files API don't run there — and the 99.9% SLA is still in public preview. Price a multi-year European Compute Unit commitment against what ships today.

Seven routes off OpenAI, priced and deployment-matched on 12 August 2026. Residency is already solved almost everywhere — only Mistral, Cohere private deployment and self-hosted open weights clear a jurisdiction rule.

DeepSeek warned of a significant API price rise with no number and no date. Because the weights are MIT-licensed, the ceiling is already public: independent hosts serving the identical model charge 3-4x on posted rates and 40x on cache hits.