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Stripe Agrees to Acquire OpenRouter
Stripe and OpenRouter confirmed the acquisition agreement on August 19, 2026. The companies disclosed the strategy and continuity commitments, but not the purchase price.
She Built a Women's Safety App With Zero Coding Experience. It Hit $456K ARR in 3 Months.
Sabrine Matos had never written a line of code. After a femicide case hit close to home, she used the AI app builder Lovable to launch Plinq, a women's safety app, in 45 days.
Bolt CEO Fired His Entire HR Team. He Says the Problems Vanished With Them.
Ryan Breslow's wartime reset at the fintech startup offers a blunt lesson about lean operations, culture debt, and what happens when you strip HR out of a company fighting to survive.
The Fintech Card That Might Not Charge You - Or Might
The viral debit card that might not charge you is drawing backlash for applying variable-reward psychology to everyday spending.
Parker, the E-Commerce Fintech That Raised $200M, Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
The YC-backed corporate credit card startup has shut down abruptly, leaving small business customers stranded and failed acquisition talks as the likely trigger.
Corgi Wants to Be the Insurance Company for the AI Era
The YC-backed insurer just hit a $1.3B valuation. Its AI liability product is aimed squarely at startups building with models they do not fully control.
Subquadratic Launches SubQ With 12 Million Token Context Window and $29M in Funding
The Miami startup says its sparse-attention architecture reduces compute by nearly 1,000x at long context lengths, outperforming GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus on retrieval benchmarks.
Meta Acquires Assured Robot Intelligence to Build the Android of Humanoids
The ARI deal lands two of robotics' most decorated researchers inside Meta Superintelligence Labs — and reveals a bigger platform bet on physical AI.
Legal AI Startup Legora Hits $5.6B Valuation, Escalating Battle With Harvey
The legal AI vertical is heating up as Legora raises its Series C, putting the spotlight on specialized generative models for law firms.
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