Seven Billion for a Router
Stripe is reportedly paying about seven billion dollars for OpenRouter, and nobody involved has confirmed the price or the take rate that would justify it. Meanwhile Nvidia's five hundred billion in memoranda turns out to be memoranda, Anthropic posts an eleven and a half billion dollar quarter, Gruber calls Claude's watermark a perversion of writing, and OpenAI closes the team that was supposed to think about catastrophic risk.
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