Daily AI Roundups
Stripe finalized a more than $7 billion agreement to acquire OpenRouter, the AI model gateway that lets developers route between models on price, speed, and task, according to Bloomberg. OpenAI, the Financial Times reports, disbanded its preparedness team as the company reshapes its safety functions ahead of an expected IPO, and Alibaba agreed to sell its gaming arm to Trustar Capital for at least $1.5 billion to sharpen its AI pivot. AI video startup Higgsfield raised a $400 million Series B at a $5.4 billion valuation led by DST Global, and DeepSeek's peak/off-peak V4 API pricing took effect with off-peak rates half the peak. The roundup also covers SemiAnalysis's estimate that a PJM modeling mistake wasted $12 billion of ratepayers' money, Miles Brundage on what the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack reveals about AI danger, Nature's reporting on skepticism toward Anthropic's invisible watermarks, Huawei Noah's Ark's ScienceFlow research agent, and ChatGPT's new Computer History feature.
- AI M&A
- AI funding
- AI safety
- AI infrastructure
- AI economics
- AI video
- research agents
- AI pricing