Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures are poised to make nearly $2 billion combined from Stripe's potential acquisition of AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $8 billion, according to peopl…
Stripe Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter, a startup that lets developers switch between AI models, for more than $7 billion, a 5.4-fold premium over its $1.3 billion valuation from…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, a three-year-old AI routing platform, for more than $7 billion, Bloomberg reported on August 16, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal, which is yet…
Clay, a New York-based go-to-market platform, is hiring a Software Engineer, Applied AI with a salary range of $170k–300k/yr, to work on AI agents that execute real go-to-market workflows. The company…
Clay, a San Francisco-based company that helps organizations turn growth ideas into reality, is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer with a salary range of $170k–300k/yr. The role involves building lear…
LangChain, the AI startup with $125M in Series B funding from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, is hiring a Research Engineer for its LangSmith Engine team in New York, NY or S…
LangChain, the AI startup with $125M in Series B funding from IVC, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, is hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer for its AI observability and evals platform…
Lovable raised $400 million in a Series C round at a $13.3 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures with EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund as co-lead, according to the Stockholm-based AI software startup's Au…
Baseten, an AI inference platform, raised $300 million in a Series E round at a $5 billion post-money valuation, co-led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) and CapitalG, Google's growth fund, with…
LangChain, the AI agent development platform backed by $125M in Series B funding from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, is hiring a Deployed Engineer (Early Career) in New York…
K2 Space raised a $500 million Series D at a $6.8 billion valuation, led by Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ, with participation from Alphabet's CapitalG, Lightspeed, and ARK Invest, to scale its large, hig…
Satellite manufacturer K2 Space raised $500 million in a Series D round at a $6.8 billion valuation, more than double its previous $3 billion valuation from December 2025. Kleiner Perkins and Iconiq c…
Stripe is in talks to acquire AI startup OpenRouter for roughly $10 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal, marking a significant expansion beyond payments for the company. OpenRouter, valued a…
OrcaRouter launched free bring-your-own-key routing on July 24, letting developers connect their model-provider accounts while retaining OrcaRouter's adaptive routing and automatic failover without pa…
Stripe Inc. is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model marketplace, for $10 billion, a nearly eightfold increase from its $1.3 billion valuation in May. The deal would expand Stripe beyond payment…
Lovable is the best AI coding tool for non-technical founders in 2026, according to analysis of the six most-cited tools on X, because it lets users describe an app in plain language and get a live UR…
Swedish AI startup Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a valuation between $13 billion and $13.2 billion, more than doubling its December valuation. The company, which lets users build apps b…
Uber exhausted its 2026 AI coding budget by April, prompting a $1,500 monthly cap per engineer on tools like Claude Code and Cursor, as token consumption from agentic workflows surged. The FinOps Foun…
SpaceX closed a $150 million per month AI compute deal with open-source startup Reflection AI, converting itself into a neocloud provider. Meanwhile, AI infrastructure startup Baseten raised a $1.5 bi…
In the week of May 27 to June 3, 2026, the cost of running AI agent infrastructure emerged as its own distinct category of work, marked by three key signals. The compression tool Headroom gained 6,322…