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Tether International's first full independent audit by KPMG US confirmed a $6.814 billion reserve surplus as of December 31, 2025, backing its $183 billion USDT supply, and CEO Paolo Ardoino is now outlining expansion in…
Wispr AI, the company behind the AI dictation tool Wispr Flow, is in talks with Menlo Ventures to raise approximately $260 million at a $2 billion valuation, nearly tripling its $700 million valuation from November 2025.…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, marking the largest AI gateway deal on record and merging payments infrastructure with a routing layer that directs developer workloads across 400+ AI mod…
AGI Bar, a Beijing bar opened by independent AI developer Song De in the Zhongguancun tech hub, offers free DeepSeek tokens with every pint, powered by two Nvidia DGX Spark computers, and serves a signature drink called …
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude model family, has become the 'Apple of AI' by generating the most revenue among AI startups despite charging the highest prices, according to a report from Business Insider. Th…
Wispr, a dictation and voice AI startup cofounded by Tanay Kothari and Sahaj Garg, has raised a $280 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Notable Capital, NEA, Neo Ven…
Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence company, is reportedly willing to pay $7 billion to acquire Israeli startup Decart, known for its real-time world models and generative video technologies, according to Ynet N…
Aachen-based business AI company amber, founded by Philipp Reissel, Bastian Maiworm and Igli Manaj, is reported to have raised a €7 million Series A to expand in Europe and develop software that can act across connected …
Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, the unified interface for LLMs, for more than $7 billion, a move that signals consolidation in the AI infrastructure market. The acquisition, reported by Bloomberg on Au…
Goldman Sachs and Intel have backed AI video maker Higgsfield in a $400m funding round that values the two-year-old company at $5.4bn, up from $1.3bn in January. The round, which also included DST Global and Liberty Glob…
Robotera, a Beijing-based humanoid robotics company founded in August 2023 and incubated by Tsinghua University, is reportedly considering a Hong Kong IPO to raise up to $1 billion, according to sources familiar with the…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 has taken the top spot in AI intelligence rankings, with the company leading AI spending at 65 percent, according to market data. The model's cost-effectiveness is noted as a competitive advanta…
Drupal founder and Acquia co-founder Dries Buytaert argues that as AI makes code cheaper to generate, software companies will increasingly need to build businesses around dependability and operations rather than access t…
European chip stocks rose broadly on Monday after Anthropic, the company behind the AI language model Claude, reported at least a 14-fold increase in second-quarter revenue compared with the same period last year, accord…
Stanley Druckenmiller's Duquesne Family Office sold its entire positions in Intel (411,400 shares) and Micron Technology (23,400 shares) in Q2 2026, while initiating new stakes in four Bitcoin mining companies, including…
Business Insider tracked the sleep habits of three young startup founders over four days, finding that Lance Yan, 19, founder of AI startup Traverse, often sleeps only 5 to 6 hours, while Kavitta Ghai, 29, cofounder of e…
Lanyon AI, a Princeton, New Jersey research lab, disclosed a $10.6 million initial fundraising round on Aug. 17, led by Dimension with participation from Industrious Ventures, to develop AI-generated scientific software …
Stripe has acquired OpenRouter, a platform that routes developer requests to more than 400 AI models, signaling a strategic bet on the infrastructure layer that controls model selection rather than on building models the…
Stripe is acquiring AI startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg, a significant increase from OpenRouter's latest valuation of $1.3 billion. OpenRouter provides access to over 400 AI models and …
Payments giant Stripe has reportedly finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, a startup providing a unified API for over 400 AI models, for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. The acquisition comes just three mo…