Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

OpenRouter’s CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.

Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation

Wispr’s total funding is now over $361 million.

Uber adds Zipline drones to its Eats delivery network

Uber is also making investing in Zipline as part of the tie-up.

Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’

Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he’s been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.

How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked

A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.

Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work

How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?

SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

The woman claimed that AI tools are “taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse.”

What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on US water utilities

Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Here’s what we know and don’t know about this wave of attacks allegedly carried out by the Iranian government.

Thrive’s Joshua Kushner chides Silicon Valley VCs over AI euphoria

The AI opportunity is huge, but “it would also be a grave error in our minds to let excitement weaken our investment discipline,” Kushner warns in his first-ever investment letter.