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Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, a three-year-old AI routing platform, for more than $7 billion, Bloomberg reported on August 16, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal, which is yet to close, values Op…
Stripe Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model marketplace, for approximately $10 billion, according to Bloomberg. The deal, reported on July 23, 2026, would value OpenRouter at over seven times its …
Stripe Inc. is nearing a deal to acquire AI firm OpenRouter for over $7 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, just months after OpenRouter raised money at a lower valuation. The final price could change,…
Jason Lemkin, founder of SaaStr, warns that AI agents are bypassing products like Canva and Notion entirely, citing Canva's growth cut from 30% to 20% for 2026 as a symptom of a broader shift. He advises founders to test…
Andrew Ng's AI Fund analyzed 10,000 job postings to create a skills map identifying four core AI engineering skills that determine team efficiency, with implications for founders raising capital in a $510 billion venture…
Anthropic's preliminary second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5 billion, more than double the $4.73 billion reported for the first quarter and up from $787 million in Q2 2025, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg N…
Anthropic, creator of the Claude chatbot, is priced at a 41% probability of launching the largest IPO of 2026, according to prediction markets, with market liquidity at $27.3K and 137 days remaining. The company's privat…
A growing gray market for unused AI inference credits is emerging, with brokers buying and reselling credits from startups at steep discounts, according to a new report. The report estimates tens of millions of dollars i…
Sequoia Capital's thesis that AI companies will sell work rather than software is flawed because using AI for a task trains the model to do it, commoditizing the service, according to a rebuttal by Andrew Côté. The durab…
Mind Lab, founded in October 2025 by Andrew Chen, released Macaron-V1 on July 21, achieving state-of-the-art results in six of 12 benchmarks, with the flagship Venti model post-trained on GLM-5.2 using four LoRA adapters…
Anthropic's revenue reportedly jumped to more than $11.5 billion in the second quarter, according to a CNBC report. The figure marks a significant increase for the AI company, though the report was not accessible for fur…
Tasklet (YC P26), an AI platform for running business operations on agents, is hiring a Head of Design Engineering, an individual contributor role offering a salary of $300,000 to $450,000 and equity of 0.35% to 0.70%. T…
Lovable, Gamma, and Anysphere's Cursor each crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025 with teams of 45 to 60 employees, while Bolt.new reached $40 million ARR with fewer than 40 people, according to compan…
Gooseworks (YC W23), a San Francisco-based startup founded by the team behind Athina AI, is hiring a founding builder/engineer to develop self-improving AI agents that automate ad creative for consumer brands. The compan…
Corma, an AI security startup founded by CEO Alon Pluda, announced $60 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital, alongside Khosla Ventures and Coatue, to close the 'defense gap' in cybersecurity. In tests, four fro…
A developer is offering to build AI-powered minimum viable products (MVPs) for founders without upfront payment, with payment due only after agreed success criteria are met. The offer targets 1-2 founders with concrete p…
RNet, a new AI token service provider, launched a basic version of its platform at rnetai.org, allowing users to buy credits once and use them across multiple AI applications, with developers integrating an AI gateway to…
Anthropic is nearing a deal to acquire Israeli AI developer Decart at an approximately $7 billion valuation, with Decart's founders and largest investor Sequoia Capital favoring Anthropic over a reportedly higher offer f…
A developer has published a methodology for reverse-engineering AI tool sites using public traffic data, outlining a six-step framework to identify and replicate successful growth strategies. The approach emphasizes filt…
AI startup Perplexity has made an unsolicited $34.5 billion offer to buy Google's Chrome browser, a bid larger than Perplexity's own valuation, following a US antitrust ruling that found Google holds an illegal monopoly …