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Dark data card comparing twelve LLM providers' API-data training terms: six state no training by default (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google paid tier, Together, Fireworks, xAI); DeepSeek and Moonshot permit training under their published terms; Mistral and Cohere describe opt-out controls without establishing every API product's default; Groq and Alibaba Model Studio could not be verified from the pages read. The three groups total 6, 2 and 4; the footer distinguishes permission to train from proof of actual training.

Does OpenAI train on your API data? 12 providers, 3 answers, one 30-day default

PiRouter Team
Hand-drawn illustration: an open-air bazaar of model makers' stalls; at the gate a brass shovel-maker's cart has parked while a porter ties a single yellow reservation ribbon to the gatepost

Nvidia in talks to buy Hugging Face: the investor refused in January is the buyer in August

Linden Kern
Timeline of two distribution-layer deals in 2026: Hugging Face declines Nvidia's $500M at a $7B valuation in January, OpenRouter announces it is joining Stripe on 19 August, Hugging Face is reported exploring a sale at $13B or more on 23 August

Hugging Face said no to one dominant investor. Eight months later it is exploring a sale

Linden Kern
The source post-mortem's cover art: server racks trading cables in the dark (The Daily Brief)

Routers aren't dead — per-request routing is

Linden Kern