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The DP-203 Azure Data Engineer Associate exam was retired on March 31, 2025. Here is what it cost, what data credentials are live now, and how to build the same proof of skill.
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xAI released Grok 4.7 on September 21, 2026 at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens - the same headline price as Grok 4.6 but with a 500K token context window, multimodal text-and-image input, and stronger agentic-coding performance on CursorBench 4.0. Here is the pricing, the benchmarks, and how to access it.
Meta Connect 2026 starts September 23 with expected reveals: the Watermelon model family, Muse Spark open weights, and Muse Video / Voice Playgrounds for developers. Here is what Meta has already shipped in the Muse family, what is rumored for the keynote, and why the Watermelon model matters for the frontier race.
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Databricks announced (Sep 16) a US$350M+ investment in Singapore over three years — doubling its workforce to 500+, a new 32,000 sq ft office at IOI Central Boulevard Towers, and a partnership with IMDA and EDB to train 20,000 people in data and AI skills, backed by an SMU curriculum collaboration.
Matillion pricing 2026: Developer free trial; Teams $20K-$35K/yr for small teams (5 dev users, annual); Scale $100K-$300K+/yr enterprise (5 dev users, SSO, hybrid, CDC); credit-based consumption; warehouse compute separate.
Hightouch pricing 2026: Basic Reverse ETL Free $0/mo with 2 active syncs; Composable CDP usage-based $450-$800/mo entry; Enterprise custom $10K-$100K+/mo; row overage $0.003-$0.01/row.
Astronomer Astro pricing 2026: Developer $0.35/hr deployment; Team $0.42/hr deployment; Business and Enterprise annual commit; workers from $0.13/hr; dedicated clusters from $2.40/hr; scale-to-zero workers.
dbt Cloud pricing 2026: Developer free (1 seat, 3K models/mo); Starter $100/developer-seat/mo (5 seats included, 15K models/mo); Enterprise $200-$400/seat/mo negotiated; new Enterprise+ tier with unlimited projects and PrivateLink.
Confluent Cloud pricing 2026: Basic $0/mo start ($0.14/eCKU-hr after first free); Standard ~$385/mo start ($0.75/eCKU-hr); Enterprise ~$895/mo start ($1.75-$2.25/eCKU-hr); Freight $2.25/eCKU-hr for cost-optimized logging.
Segment pricing 2026: Free $0/mo with 1,000 MTUs; Team $120/mo with 10,000 MTUs + tiered overage ($12/$11/$10 per 1K MTUs); Business custom with Protocols + Personas; CDP plan quote-based.
Airbyte Cloud pricing 2026: Core self-hosted free; Standard $10/mo with $2.50/credit overage; Plus $500/mo with annual commit (formerly $25K/yr minimum); Pro and Enterprise custom Data Worker pricing.
Fivetran pricing 2026: Free plan 500K MAR; Standard ~$500/million MAR with $5 base per connection (1M-1MAR band); Enterprise $800-$1,200/million MAR; Business Critical $1,067/million MAR (PCI DSS Level 1 + HIPAA + HITRUST).
