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PuppyGraph Raises $10M Series A as Its 1.0 Graph Query Engine Adds an AI-Assisted Schema Builder and MCP Integrations
PuppyGraph, which queries warehouse and lakehouse data as a graph, said it raised $10 million and added an AI-assisted schema builder and MCP integrations; an analyst says the graph model still needs upkeep.
OpenAI Announces Plan to Acquire Pierre Computer, Whose Trees and Diffs Libraries Codex Uses, Two Days After Detailing Its Pando Git Backend
OpenAI said on November 4 it will acquire Pierre Computer, maker of Code Storage and the Trees and Diffs libraries used in Codex; terms were not disclosed and closing needs regulatory approvals.
Meta, Factory and OpenAI Announced Coding-Tool Deals on November 4 With Different User Terms: a Cloud Shutdown Date, Open Source and a Pending Close
Reports on Meta's Conductor, Factory's HumanLayer and OpenAI's planned Pierre Computer deal describe different terms for users; the May 2026 Stainless shutdown shows what two customers did after a hosted service closed.
EDB Announces Acquisition of ClickHouse Support Provider Altinity, With Integrated Offerings Planned for Q4 2026 and Terms Not Disclosed
EDB announced the acquisition of Altinity on November 5, 2026; terms were not disclosed, integrated ClickHouse offerings are planned for Q4 2026, and two analysts quoted by TechTarget say integration work remains.
Lambda Reportedly Raising Up to $4 Billion at a $14.5 Billion Pre-Money Valuation Ahead of a Planned 2027 IPO
Lambda is securing up to $4 billion led by Coatue and Blackstone, per WSJ reporting, days after closing a $1.008 billion investment-grade GPU loan.
Berkeley and LSE Economists Estimate Markets Price In a 32.6% Software Engineering Productivity Gain From AI, Roughly Doubling by Mid-2026 as Coding Agents Spread
An NBER working paper infers investor expectations from stock moves: AI is priced as a permanent 32.6% software engineering productivity gain through 2025, with expectations more than doubling by mid-2026.
GMI Cloud Announces $668 Million in Financing, Pairing a $223 Million Series B With a $445 Million CTBC-Led Credit Facility
GMI Cloud says it raised $223 million in Series B equity led by ARCHIV plus a $445 million CTBC-led credit facility to expand GPU and inference capacity in the US, Taiwan and APAC.
Nscale Closes $3.36 Billion Pre-IPO Financing as It Preps a Public Debut Valued at $35 Billion
British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36 billion in convertible financing led by Third Point and Nvidia ahead of an NYSE listing targeting a $35 billion valuation.
Crusoe Raises $3.9 Billion Series F at $30.9 Billion Valuation to Expand Its Vertically Integrated AI Infrastructure Stack
Crusoe's oversubscribed round, co-led by Atreides, Mubadala and Valor, funds modular Spark data centers and its Managed Inference platform, which claims to outpace vLLM.
ClickHouse Acquires RunReveal to Bring Security Analytics In-House
ClickHouse acquired security data platform RunReveal, folding in-house the expertise behind a product already built on its own database.
MotherDuck Acquires Tower, the Startup Already Powering Its AI-Generated Data Pipelines
MotherDuck bought Tower Computing Inc., the runtime provider already powering its Flights feature for AI-built data pipelines.
AWS Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire DuckLabs, the Company Behind DuckDB
Amazon will acquire the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB, but not the open-source project itself, which stays MIT-licensed under the independent DuckDB Foundation.