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OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Mac minis to train computer-use agents, and Anthropic rents Mac capacity through AWS. The reason matters to your pilot: a desktop agent's unit of cost is a machine, not a token, and Apple's licence caps you at two virtual desktops per Mac while every cloud Mac host bills a 24-hour minimum.
September 1, 2026 · 15 min read
Oakley Capital Fund VI took majority control of Graphwise on August 19. GraphDB's engine is proprietary — RDF4J is the open-source framework it plugs into — and since version 11.0 even the Free edition requires a license file you request from the vendor.
August 20, 2026 · 12 min read
Anaconda acquired Enkrypt AI on August 4 for undisclosed terms, putting the red-teaming vendor you chose for its neutrality inside a platform company. The bigger exposure is the license: Anaconda spent 2024 and 2025 enforcing a 200-employee 'free' threshold with demand letters that threatened back bills, and Enkrypt's $0 and $149 self-serve tiers now belong to it.
August 4, 2026 · 11 min read