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Wednesday, March 25, 2026  ·  5 stories

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Happy Wednesday. Here’s what’s moving in AI, data, and martech today.

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  • LiteLLM Supply Chain Attack Hits 97M Monthly Downloads — If your AI infrastructure or CI/CD pipelines use LiteLLM, rotate all credentials immediately—this attack specifically targeted the central gateway where organizations store their entire LLM API key portfolio.
  • Gimlet Labs Raises $80M for Multi-Chip AI Inference Cloud — As inference costs dominate AI budgets (80% of total compute), this chip-agnostic approach could let marketing data teams reduce model serving costs while avoiding Nvidia lock-in.
  • NoTraffic Raises $90M to Turn Traffic Lights Into AI Networks — For location-based marketing teams, this represents a growing infrastructure layer generating real-time mobility data that could inform out-of-home campaigns and foot traffic attribution.
  • Thomson Reuters Unveils 'Thomson' — Its Own Legal-Trained LLM — This validates the domain-specific LLM approach—marketing teams should watch for similar vertical AI models emerging in advertising, measurement, and customer data that outperform general-purpose models on specialized tasks.
  • Halter Raises $220M at $2B Valuation for AI Cattle Collars — This massive agtech raise demonstrates that AI-powered hardware with clear unit economics can attract venture scale—a model relevant for any marketing tech betting on physical-world data collection.

▸ AI/LLM  ·  Snyk

LiteLLM Supply Chain Attack Hits 97M Monthly Downloads

On March 24, 2026, threat actor TeamPCP compromised LiteLLM versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI with credential-stealing malware. The attack targeted the most popular open-source LLM proxy used to route API calls to 100+ AI providers, and Wiz reports the library is present in 36% of all cloud environments. The malicious packages were quarantined after approximately three hours, but the payload harvested SSH keys, cloud credentials, and API keys.

The bottom line: If your AI infrastructure or CI/CD pipelines use LiteLLM, rotate all credentials immediately—this attack specifically targeted the central gateway where organizations store their entire LLM API key portfolio.

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▸ Emerging Tools  ·  TechCrunch

Gimlet Labs Raises $80M for Multi-Chip AI Inference Cloud

Gimlet Labs announced an $80M Series A led by Menlo Ventures for its multi-silicon inference cloud that runs AI workloads simultaneously across CPUs, GPUs, and specialized accelerators from NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Cerebras. The platform claims 3x-10x faster inference at the same cost and power by automatically routing different parts of a model to the optimal chip architecture. The company launched with eight-figure revenues and now counts a top-three frontier lab and hyperscaler among its customers.

The bottom line: As inference costs dominate AI budgets (80% of total compute), this chip-agnostic approach could let marketing data teams reduce model serving costs while avoiding Nvidia lock-in.

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