Daily AI Briefing
The 6 top stories of the 54 AIBriefs curated that day.
Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model gateway, for more than $7 billion. OpenRouter facilitates 250 trillion tokens per month and has 8 million developers, with ~$140M annualized revenue.
General Intuition is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six, weeks after raising $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation. The round is oversubscribed, with existing investors Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst also participating.
Claude Security scans now run on Claude Mythos 5, available in public beta for all Claude Enterprise customers. Anthropic also launched a $35M fund to secure open-source software and plans to expand its Cyber Verification Program.
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Demis Hassabis becomes Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, with Koray Kavukcuoglu leading the lab. Jeff Dean and collaborators founded Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation to automate machine learning research.
Perplexity's agentic Personal Computer tool is now available on Windows, letting users orchestrate agents across local files, Microsoft Office 365, and the web. It rolls out to Max and Enterprise Max subscribers starting at $200/month, with notifications before sensitive actions.
Mistral and Saudi PIF-backed HUMAIN announced a strategic collaboration valued in the hundreds of millions of euros to build sovereign AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, focusing on cybersecurity, voice, and Arabic-language frontier models.
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