Stripe is building a full stack for agent-to-agent commerce, including a machine payment protocol, agent wallets, usage metering, and stablecoin rails, so AI agents can transact directly without human…
Stripe Inc. agreed to pay $7.5 billion to acquire OpenRouter, a platform that routes API requests across more than 400 AI models from over 80 providers, a price roughly 5.7 times OpenRouter's $1.3 bil…
Stripe is preparing to let consumers fund AI agents that can make purchases without securing approval for every transaction, according to a Link setup screen published by Jane Manchun Wong on Monday. …
Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value the AI developer platform at $13 billion or more, nearly tripling its $4.5 billion 2023 valuation, according to Business Insider. The company has reta…
Hugging Face, the AI developer platform that raised $235 million at a $4.5 billion valuation in August 2023, is reportedly exploring a sale at a price around $13 billion, nearly triple its previous va…
Greptile, an AI code review startup backed by Benchmark, Y Combinator, Paul Graham, and Initialized, is hiring a Growth Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $130k–190k/yr. The company, which rev…
A business management student with no coding background shipped quidkit, a Next.js + Supabase + Stripe starter kit, using Claude Code to write essentially all the code. The developer, who studied busi…
Coinbase demonstrated an internal Slack bot on August 18, 2026, that enables AI agents to autonomously purchase services using USDC micropayments via the x402 protocol, settling transactions in about …
A mysterious AI model called Ox Alpha, which benchmarks suggest rivals top models from Anthropic and OpenAI, appeared on the OpenRouter marketplace last week, but its creator remains anonymous. The mo…
Hugging Face, the AI model-sharing platform, has been approached to sell at a valuation of $13 billion or more, according to Business Insider. The startup, which last raised at a $4.5 billion post-mon…
AI agents transferred 3.3 million USDC on Solana via the x402 protocol in the past week, with 5.1 million total transfers over the last 90 days, according to Token Terminal metrics. The x402 Foundatio…
Stripe agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion on August 19, 2026, its largest acquisition ever, giving the payments company control over the API gateway used by 8 million developers to …
A developer spent six weeks letting a multi-agent system run the operational backbone of a SaaS, using LangGraph for state management and a RAG system fed by Jira, GitHub, and Stripe data. The experim…
Canva co-founder Cliff Obrecht said high costs forced the company to slow the rollout of AI features in its graphic design apps, as the Sydney-based company, valued at US$42bn, cut its annual revenue …
A free mystery AI model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter four days ago and reached 221,000 users and 16 trillion tokens of usage in three days, reportedly beating GPT-5.6 on a coding benchmark. …
An anonymous reasoning model called Ox Alpha, released Thursday on OpenRouter by a third-party provider, is available free for a week with near-unlimited usage and a capacity of 100 trillion tokens pe…
OpenRouter listed Ox Alpha, a free reasoning model from an anonymous provider, on August 20th with a 1,048,576-token context window, one day after Stripe agreed to acquire the gateway. The lab behind …
Hugging Face, the AI developer platform founded by Clément Delangue, is exploring a sale that could value the company at $13 billion or more, nearly triple its 2023 valuation of $4.5 billion, accordin…
A mysterious AI model called Ox Alpha, released on OpenRouter on Thursday and described as a reasoning model for coding and agentic work, has sparked speculation about its creator. Stripe CEO Patrick …
Hugging Face, the AI model-sharing platform, has been exploring a sale that could value the company at $13 billion or more, according to people familiar with the matter. The startup, last valued at $4…