The Compute Commodity Pivot: Why The Cerebras IPO Plus The CME Compute Futures Market Just Rewrote The AI Cost Math For Every Business

Stephen Diaz

Published on: 17/05/2026

Cerebras IPO'd Thursday at a $95B market cap with a $20B OpenAI deal in tow, and on May 12 CME Group plus Silicon Data announced the first-ever compute futures market based on a daily H100 rental index. Compute just became a tradable commodity. Here is the Compute Commodity Pivot framework and the three moves every business owner should make this week to avoid paying spot price when capacity tightens in 2027.

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OpenAI's Worst Week and The AI Lock-In Tax: Why Vendor-Neutral Is the New Default

Stephen Diaz

Published on: 28/04/2026

OpenAI lost Microsoft exclusivity, missed sales targets, and went to trial in 72 hours. Here's the AI Lock-In Tax and how to build a vendor-neutral stack.

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Amazon Just Put Another $25 Billion Into Anthropic, And Anthropic Promised $100 Billion Back To AWS: What Is The Reciprocal Lockup, And Why Should Business Owners Care?

Stephen Diaz

Published on: 26/04/2026

Amazon committed $25B more to Anthropic; Anthropic committed $100B back to AWS. Plus Google's $40B Anthropic move and OpenAI-Cerebras circular financing. Here's The Reciprocal Lockup framework for business owners.

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