Payments giant Stripe has reportedly finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, a startup providing a unified API for over 400 AI models, for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. The acquisition…
Stripe Inc. has agreed to terms to acquire OpenRouter Inc., a developer of a single access point to more than 400 AI models, for over $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. OpenRouter, founded in 2023 by…
Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg, marking Stripe's largest known bet on AI infrastructure. OpenRouter, which …
Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. OpenRouter, which raised a $113 million Series B at a $1.3 billion valuatio…
Mythos AI's Advanced Pilot Assist System (APAS) has been installed on a commercial Mississippi River towboat operated by Southern Devall, providing advisory data while keeping the crew in control, as …
FurtherAI, an AI startup building agents for the insurance industry, is hiring a Staff Product Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $250k–400k/yr. The company has raised over $30M from investors…
Town, a new AI-powered workplace assistant that emerged from stealth in June with $55 million from Andreessen Horowitz, aims to create a self-organizing company by building a wiki of user profiles, co…
Yuno raised $45 million in a Series B round on August 12, 2026, led by Global PayTech Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, QuantumLight Capital, Monashees, Kaszek, Ende…
Vals AI has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz to build independent evaluation benchmarks for AI models, targeting the gap between standardized test performance and real…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has invested in Vals, a startup building an evaluation platform that tests AI models on real-world tasks rather than academic benchmarks, aiming to become an independent sco…
Lightspeed Venture Partners has raised $600 million through a dedicated co-investment fund to deepen its stakes in AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic, closing in December 2025 as part of a br…
Anthropic's plan to embed invisible watermarks in Claude-generated text drew criticism from venture investor Bill Gurley, who argued on August 12th that Anthropic would control both the marking system…
Kevin Weil, former chief product officer of OpenAI, has sought a valuation of at least $750 million for his new AI science startup, aiming to raise $150 million in the round, according to three people…
Volta, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform founded by CEO Ricard Boada and Chief Corporate Development Officer Sofia Gumuzio, emerged from stealth with a $10 billion strategic partnersh…
Christian Catalini, a guest author on Andreessen Horowitz's a16z news site, argues that the debate over open versus closed AI models is focused on the wrong margin, citing economist Petra Moser's rese…
Meta Platforms launched two open-weight AI models, Muse Glimmer (30-billion parameter) and Muse Spark 1.2, to challenge China's lead in AI, offering competitive performance without geopolitical risk. …
OpenAI has filed confidential paperwork for an IPO and plans a separate employee share sale at the same $852 billion valuation it set in March, according to The Information, rather than a completed $7…
Theo Jaffee, a 21-year-old University of Florida dropout, co-founded Monitoring The Situation (MTS), an Andreessen Horowitz-backed media company that streams interviews with AI and tech figures on X, …
Ilya Sutskever, Demis Hassabis, and Dario Amodei lead the top 10 AI influencers of 2026, according to a new ranking that highlights frontier builders, infrastructure architects, academic pioneers, and…
Anand Arivukkarasu, a former Meta product leader, has developed a framework called the Supply Chain of Intelligence to explain where durable competitive advantage accrues in AI. The framework, publish…