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Stripe agreed Wednesday to acquire OpenRouter, a model routing platform co-founded by Alex Atallah in 2023, in a deal that values the company at a multibillion-dollar figure. The acquisition follows a 2025 investment by …
Stripe, the payments company, has acquired OpenRouter, an AI model routing platform, betting that an AI-driven world will still require intermediaries to manage payments and access to multiple AI models. The acquisition,…
Hundreds of billions of dollars have poured into defense tech, creating a bubble that is headed for consolidation within the next 18 months, according to an analysis of market data. The U.S. defense budget is $1.5 trilli…
Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC on June 1, 2026, toward a possible IPO with secondary-market investors pricing the company near $2 trillion, based on a $47 billion revenue run-rate and over 1,00…
Nine publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies invested over $5 billion in AI and high-performance computing infrastructure, generating $341 million in combined revenue in the first half of 2026. Cumulative AI and HPC con…
NeoSoul, an AI economy infrastructure company spun off from TechFlow, raised $11 million in a pre-Series A funding round to build its intelligent trading platform and infrastructure for AI agents to participate in econom…
Ben Stokes, founder of AI marketplace PromptBase, has narrowed his open-source payments project Zoneless to focus on creator and marketplace payouts, unwinding a broader attempt to build a full payment processor. PromptB…
Google Cloud published a guide listing 10 questions startups should answer before moving an AI prototype to production, covering onboarding, scaling, and governance. The guide warns that a leaked API key can rack up a la…
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 to the two founders…
A developer recounts the AI startup gold rush, noting that out of 400 Twitter followers, 61 claimed to be building AI startups. The developer built a 'smart' email assistant in late 2024 that failed to gain traction, and…
Owner, a Shopify-for-restaurants platform, accelerated past $100M ARR after pivoting to an AI-agent-first product, with over 83% of new customers now starting in the free AI product, up from 0% two years prior. CEO Adam …
Colossal Biosciences has spun out three startups, including Form Bio, Breaking, and Astromech, to commercialize its technology, with Astromech raising $20 million and mapping 46 genes related to cellular maintenance, can…
Astromech, a Dallas startup founded by Colossal Biosciences founders Ben Lamm and George Church, raised $20 million in a funding round led by biotech investor Bob Nelsen, with participation from Peak 6, NeoGenesis Capita…
OpenAI's operating loss widened to $12.3 billion in the second quarter, up from $9 billion the prior quarter, while revenue reached just under $7 billion, according to CNBC's Kate Rooney citing Wall Street Journal report…
Rillet, an AI-native accounting platform, raised $100 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation, led by ICONIQ, bringing total funding above $200 million. The company, which emerged from stealth in 2024, says…
Blind Egyptian entrepreneur Mark Morad has launched an AI-assisted app that narrates the visual world for people with vision loss, supporting Arabic and English and processing some tasks on-device. The app, developed in …
Handelsbanken fund manager Niklas Lundin says the AI sector looks strong after Amazon and Microsoft earnings showed profitable AI investments, but Lannebo's Johan Nilke warns of rising volatility and concentration risks,…
Oura, the Finnish-born smart ring company, has hired its first Chief Information Officer and a new Senior Vice President of AI ahead of a planned IPO later this year. The company confidentially filed draft IPO registrati…
Ode, the Anthropic-backed joint venture valued at roughly $1.5 billion, has acquired AI consultancy Casper Studios, adding capabilities in custom AI solutions, UX/UI design, and large language model development. The deal…
Anthropic passed OpenAI in quarterly revenue for the first time, reporting $10.9 billion in Q2 revenue with a $559 million operating profit, while OpenAI's Q2 revenue rose 18% sequentially to $6.7 billion but operating l…