Web·
Shopify bought Tailwind Labs eight months after the CSS maker cut 75% of its engineers
Adam Wathan says Tailwind CSS stays MIT-licensed under Shopify. Tailwind Plus and ui.sh closed to new customers the same day, ending the revenue behind it.
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AI·
Nvidia's $12.9 billion bid for Hugging Face would also buy the llama.cpp team
Hugging Face turned down Nvidia at a $7 billion valuation last year. The reported price is now $12.9 billion, and the ggml maintainers come with it.
Hardware·
One model per chip: AMD bought Taalas, whose test part hit 17,000 tokens a second
Taalas casts a model's weights into transistors. Its 6nm test chip served Llama 3.1 8B at roughly 17,000 tokens per second, and AMD just bought the company.
AI·
Anthropic bought Stainless, the SDK factory OpenAI and Meta also ran on
Anthropic acquired Stainless for a reported $300M and is winding down the hosted SDK generator that OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Cloudflare relied on.
Startup·
Gergely Orosz hands TechPays to Levels.fyi, and the European salary data stays free
Levels.fyi has acquired TechPays, Gergely Orosz's European tech-salary project. Here's what's changing, what isn't, and what it means for engineers.