Acquisition
Stripe Reportedly Agrees to Buy OpenRouter in $7B+ AI Infrastructure Deal
OpenRouter has built one of the most valuable positions in AI without building the models themselves. It helps developers choose and route requests across hundreds of models, and Stripe is reportedly willing to pay more than $7 billion for that position. OpenRouter gives developers one interface to access more than 500 models from over 80 […]
Dynatrace Acquires Arize AI to Build Toward Self-Improving Software
Dynatrace has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Arize AI, the company that created the AI observability category 6 years ago. The deal is bigger than one acquisition: it marks the moment two separate markets, watching software and watching AI, quietly collapse into a single one. Some acquisitions buy a customer base or a revenue […]
OpenAI Acquires NextSlide to Bring AI Presentation Creation Into ChatGPT
AI can already help write a presentation. The harder part is turning research, notes, and ideas into something structured, visual, and ready to present. OpenAI has acquired the AI presentation startup, with the NextSlide team now working on ChatGPT. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founder Ahmed Beshry said the acquisition took place earlier in 2026, […]
Netflix Paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI Filmmaking Startup
Netflix’s most important AI investment may not be a model that generates entire films. It may be technology that helps filmmakers reshape footage they have already created. The streaming company has disclosed that it paid approximately $587 million in cash for InterPositive, the filmmaking technology startup founded by actor and director Ben Affleck. Netflix completed […]