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Bloomberg reported that Phia, the AI shopping extension co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, engaged in cookie stuffing for months, with internal Slack messages showing the founders knew about the practice since…
Four.meme, an operational launchpad on BNB Chain, uses bonding-curve price discovery for token creation, while MemeToro, an open-source platform under development, plans to use AI-driven evidence checks and fixed-rate pu…
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 than 400 models from ov…
Neocloud stocks TeraWulf, CoreWeave, and Nebius fell this week amid AI bubble fears and rising bond yields, with Nebius dropping to $241 from a high of $280, CoreWeave to $93, and TeraWulf to $15.62. The sell-off follows…
Elon Musk's AI startup acquisition attempt failed after Cognition, an AI coding startup, rebuffed a buyout offer from SpaceX. The deal would have marked a significant move in Musk's AI ambitions, but Cognition declined t…
Higgsfield, the AI video platform co-founded by CEO Alex Mashrabov, has placed its video models on Together AI's cloud, adding another infrastructure supplier two days after closing a $400 million Series B. Together AI d…
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 months after OpenRout…
Bloomberg reported that Elon Musk's SpaceX attempted to acquire AI coding startup Cognition, but Cognition CEO Scott Wu denied the report, stating the company is not for sale and that no talks have occurred. The report f…
Idler, a Y Combinator-backed startup, publicly launched on Wednesday as a research lab building evaluation datasets and reinforcement learning environments for frontier AI models, disclosing a $9M seed round led by Parad…
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 have been operating…
SpaceX approached Cognition, the AI coding startup founded by Scott Wu, about an acquisition, but the talks are inactive, according to Bloomberg. The two companies continue to discuss a compute arrangement that could giv…
Fractile, a London-based AI chip startup that supplies Anthropic, is in advanced talks to raise approximately $600 million at a pre-money valuation of $6.5 billion, a sixfold increase from its $1 billion Series B valuati…
Sanja Fidler, former vice president of AI research at NVIDIA, launched Veeda AI on Wednesday with Zan Gojcic and Huan Ling to build world models that train robots in simulated physical environments. The startup aims to p…
OpenAI reported Q2 revenue of $6.7 billion, up 18% from the prior quarter, but the growth disappointed investors, according to Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley, who noted that rival Anthropic is pulling ahead in the …
SpaceX has initiated discussions with Cognition AI, the company behind the Devin AI coding agent, about a potential acquisition, according to Bloomberg. The talks come just days after SpaceX finalized its $60 billion all…
MemeToro, an AI-based memecoin agent on BNB Chain, has raised $96,309.30 in its Stage 6 presale toward a $138,460.70 goal, with one $MT token priced at $0.00350 against a projected $0.02448 launch price. The project uses…
OpenAI has informed employees it will go public by 2027, according to sources cited by CNBC. CFO Sarah Friar told staff during a Wednesday meeting that the IPO is a milestone, not the finish line, and that the company ra…
SpaceX approached artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc. about a potential acquisition, though talks are not currently active, according to people familiar with the matter. Cognition, valued at $26 bill…
Stripe, the payment processor, agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI start-up, in an $8 billion deal, marking Stripe's largest-ever acquisition as part of its broader push into the AI economy.
Stripe made its largest-ever acquisition official Wednesday, signing a deal to acquire AI developer tool OpenRouter for $7.5 billion, according to The New York Times. OpenRouter, founded in early 2023, provides a widely …