Stripe confirmed on Wednesday it will acquire OpenRouter, a platform that lets developers access multiple AI models through a single API, in a deal valued at over $7.5 billion, with $1.5 billion going…
Stripe, the payment processor that recently acquired AI marketplace OpenRouter, told shareholders in a letter obtained by Axios that the singularity began on January 1, 2026, and the company has been …
Stripe confirmed on Wednesday that it is acquiring OpenRouter for $7.5 billion, a major jump from the startup's $1.3 billion valuation in May, with founders receiving $1.5 billion and investors $6 bil…
Stripe Inc. agreed to acquire AI model routing startup OpenRouter Inc. in a deal reported at $7.5 billion or more, with closing expected within weeks. OpenRouter provides a single endpoint to more tha…
Stripe is acquiring AI model marketplace OpenRouter for about $7.5 billion, with $1.5 billion allocated to OpenRouter's founders, according to The New York Times. The deal, announced less than three m…
Stripe executives told investors in a letter obtained by Axios that they believe the singularity—the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence—arrived on January 1, 2026, and…
Stripe, the programmable financial services company, has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model gateway and routing platform that helps businesses optimize token usage across 400+ models from more …
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model marketplace and routing platform, in a deal reportedly valued at more than $7 billion. OpenRouter processes over 10 trillion tokens per day across …
Payments company Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire AI gateway OpenRouter for at least $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. OpenRouter, which integrates multiple AI models for developers, has…
Google is in talks to acquire talent from San Francisco startup Mechanize in a deal valued at over $1.5 billion, according to four people familiar with the conversations. The deal would involve a non-…
Arc Institute opened pre-registration for its 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge, which will require AI models to predict gene-knockdown responses across multiple cell lines without task-specific examples, a…
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, who dropped out of MIT twice before founding the payments company now valued at $159 billion, told Y Combinator's Startup School that his urgency to leave college was 'a b…
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, who dropped out of MIT twice to build the now-$159 billion payments company, told Gen Z at Y Combinator's Startup School that his urgency to leave college was 'a poor intu…
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison told Startup School 2026 attendees that new business creation is running at twice last year's rate, citing Stripe's own data on the AI economy. Collison, who co-founded Str…
Situational Awareness, an AI-focused hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has sold its entire public equities portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel amid a sell-off in AI …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared on a recent podcast that humanity is now in the singularity, dropping the hedging from his January 2025 post. Altman described the moment as the one he has waited for hi…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP hedge fund has reached a $20 billion valuation, driven by returns exceeding 1,000% since its late 2024 launch and a 270% gain year-to-date in 2026. The…
Radical Numerics, a startup founded by researchers who built AI models capable of generating DNA, emerged from stealth with a $50 million seed round led by Emergence Capital. The company develops mult…
Patrick Collison's description of an ideal LLM workflow tool, characterized as "GNU Autotools × Notion," directly aligns with the Verivus Assurance Platform (vap) and its open-source verivus-oss compo…