Stripe Buys A.I. Start-Up OpenRouter for $7.5 Billion
The deal is significant for the artificial intelligence industry, uniting Stripe’s payments business with OpenRouter’s helping businesses direct their spending on A.I. models.
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Google is giving college students a free year of AI Pro, and a raft of study tools
Google is rolling out a wave of study tools across Search and Gemini for the new school year. It is also giving eligible college students
A British AI-chip startup is raising at $6.5bn after an Anthropic deal
Fractile, a British startup building chips for artificial intelligence, is in advanced talks to raise money at a valuation more than six times what it
A County Got Rich From Data Centers. Some Question ‘At What Cost?’
Loudoun County, Va., hosts more than 250 data centers that bring in huge tax revenues. But some officials and residents worry the county has become
Voters Aren’t Waiting for November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers
As a backlash grows over data centers, more local officials are facing recall elections for their support of the computing sites.
A watchdog says Meta pays influencers to fight teen bans worldwide
Meta is running a global campaign to push back against laws that would ban teenagers from social media, according to a new investigation by the
China lands a rocket booster on the ground for the first time
The Chinese startup LandSpace recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on Wednesday. It is one of only a handful of private companies to
Peacock raises prices by 18 percent after becoming profitable
For the fourth time in four years, Peacock has raised its prices. The Select plan, which has ads and doesn’t include sports, movies, or Peacock
The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China’s space program
There are generally two schools of thought in the Western space community when it comes to the prospect of China landing humans on the Moon
Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup
Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of self-driving cars, is building a new robotics startup called Dulo. The company is still in stealth, and Thrun
Anthropic is preparing supervoting shares for its founders before the IPO
Anthropic is preparing to give its founders shares with extra voting power before it goes public, according to The Information. The company is setting up
A Turing Award winner says the industry’s fix for running out of data is ‘a big mistake’
Richard Sutton thinks the AI industry’s answer to running out of training data is a mistake, and he has picked a blunt word for it.
China’s AI alliance keeps growing, just as Washington tells countries to choose
China’s World AI Cooperation Organisation has added nine members in the month since it was founded, taking it from 29 signatories to 38, according to
Microsoft finally patches critical one-click Copilot vulnerability, almost eight months after learning of it
Almost eight months after confirming a critical security vulnerability within the personal version of its AI assistant, Copilot, Microsoft on Tuesday issued a patch to