News, notes and quotes from around the paddock Friday at St. Petersburg, including Kyffin Simpson (photo) helping to keep the good times rolling for Chip Ganassi Racing.

Aras reports that it is seeing a shift toward cloud adoption, with well over 50% of new Aras Innovator deployments delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS). .

OpenAI said on Friday that it had raised $110 billion from investors to pay for its continued growth and fuel the development of artificial intelligence, valuing the company at $730 billion.

Gary Sheng explains how he went from organizing dance parties to overseeing Peon Ping, a Claude plug-in with 100K+ users that keeps developers on task using video game sounds.