VMware Cloud Foundation Chief Product Officer Paul Turner urged enterprises to move AI workloads to private cloud to escape unpredictable token-based billing, saying 'We should stop talking about toke…
CME Group, the world's largest derivatives exchange, announced a partnership with Silicon Data to launch two Compute futures contracts tracking hourly rental costs of Nvidia's H100 and Blackwell B200 …
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission requested public comment on August 19 on how U.S. exchanges should list and oversee derivatives tied to AI computing capacity, with comments open for 60 days a…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is seeking public input on futures contracts for AI computing power, with a draft request for comment sent to the White House's Office of Management and…
Intercontinental Exchange announced on May 19 plans to launch U.S. dollar, cash-settled GPU compute futures tied to Ornn's Compute Price Index, and CME Group said on August 11 it would launch Silicon …
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed a Request for Comment on derivatives contracts tied to computing capacity, seeking feedback on cash market liquidity, manipulation risks, customer pr…
Silicon Data, a startup building financial-grade benchmarks for GPU rental costs, has raised $30.5 million in Series A funding led by Valor Atreides AI Fund, with CME Group and Samsung Next among back…
Silicon Data closed a $30 million Series A to become the reference price for GPU rental and an index for Wall Street futures contracts. The company plans to launch compute futures trading on the CME o…
Oxford University's St Hugh's College found the price of updating its math department computer lab had nearly doubled, a cost increase that Oxford professor of mathematical finance Rama Cont attribute…
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is preparing to solicit public comment on futures contracts tied to computing capacity, a move that could complicate the timeline for planned compute…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has requested public comment on derivatives tied to computing capacity, treating GPU power like a commodity. CME Group and Silicon Data plan to launch G…
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 at half the price of its flagship, topping benchmarks, but developers on Hacker News are asking for the older Opus 4.8 back, citing that the new model stops asking cla…
CME Group, the Chicago-based exchange, announced it will launch futures contracts tied to the cost of renting Nvidia's H100 and B200 AI chips starting October 5, pending regulatory approval. The contr…
CoreWeave CFO Nitin Agrawal said the AI cloud company recently signed a contract to rent out Nvidia A100 GPUs into 2029, suggesting the 2020-era chips remain economically useful about nine years after…
CME Group plans to launch Silicon Data H100 Rental Index Futures and Silicon Data B200 Rental Index Futures on October 5, pending regulatory review, creating the first standardized financial instrumen…
Silicon Data, founded by former Bloomberg and DRW executive Carmen Li, raised a $30.5 million initial Series A closing led by Valor Atreides AI Fund, with participation from CME Group, DRW, F-Prime, S…
CME Group will launch Compute Futures on October 5 with Silicon Data, creating a new asset class that tracks hourly rental costs for Nvidia's H100 and B200 GPUs, with each contract representing a mont…
CME Group will launch two compute futures contracts on October 5, 2026, enabling AI companies and investors to hedge against volatile GPU rental costs. The contracts, developed with Silicon Data, trac…
Enterprise AI inference costs hit a yearly low of $1.16–$1.18 per million tokens from August 6–8, down from $2.04 on May 31 and $1.45 in late July, according to data from investment bank Jefferies and…
Enterprise AI inference costs hit a 2026 low, with average prices ranging between US$1.16 and US$1.18 per million tokens from August 6 to 8, according to investment bank Jefferies, citing data from US…