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Stripe acquires AI model gateway OpenRouter in an $8 billion deal. Stripe just made its boldest bet yet on the future of software infrastructure. The fintech giant agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the world’s leading AI model gateway. Sources value the landmark deal at slightly over $8 billion. OpenRouter acts as the central switchboard for artificial intelligence. The platform routes developer requests across 400 models from 80 different AI providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. And it currently processes over 10 trillion tokens daily for 10 million developers. This acquisition makes absolute sense. Stripe has built its multi-billion-dollar empire on simplifying…

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 16, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire How an AirTag planted by a reporter led to a secret Amazon site where old books are cut apart and scanned 404 Media put an Apple AirTag in a rare book and tracked it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, where a team cuts the bindings…

Today, we welcome the 48th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka CERT now has access to monitor Sri Lankan government domains against the data in HIBP, helping identify exposed government accounts and respond when they appear in new data breaches.As with the other governments already using the service, this is about using breach data for good: giving national cyber teams practical visibility into their public sector exposure and supporting their work to protect government services.

Anyone waiting for a new iMac may only have a few more months to go. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is preparing an updated model that should be available to buy before the end of 2026. The refresh is expected to bring Apple’s upcoming M6 chip alongside some new color options. Beyond that, though, buyers shouldn’t expect Apple to reinvent its all-in-one desktop this year. Gurman says the upcoming model won’t change much else, suggesting Apple will stick with the familiar 24-inch design rather than introducing a larger screen, OLED panel, or substantial chassis redesign. The iMac could be…

Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender’s own legitimately signed boot-time remediation driver to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations on Windows systems ranging from Windows 7 through Windows 11 25H2, with no software flaw exploited and no driver imported from outside the machine. The driver, BTR.sys (Boot Time Removal Tool), is a required Windows component, which means it cannot be added to Microsoft’s Vulnerable Driver Blocklist or blocked via Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) without disrupting Defender itself. Jiří Vinopal, a threat researcher and reverse engineer at Check Point Research, presented the findings as…

If you’re like me, and you grew up in a house where your mom refused to let you get a video game console, because she believed sitting and staring at a TV was bad for you, you might think of video games as antithetical to health. And there is plenty of research about the ways in which gaming too much can harm your physical and mental well-being. I don’t think anyone would argue that eight hours of Call of Duty every day is doing your body or your mind much good.But the old caricature of video games as simple brain…

I also feel it comes across in how colors present. Technically, the monitor’s results are modest for an OLED monitor: It has a color gamut that spanned 94 percent of DCI-P3 and 89 percent of AdobeRGB. That’s a tad more narrow than top QD-OLED monitors, which can hit up to 98 percent and 95 percent, respectively. However, the ultra-clear, high-contrast look of the panel amplifies the sense of impact. I’m not saying it’s better than the best competitors, but the PG27UCWM’s overall image quality is in the upper tier. That’s at least partially due to the fact that RGB Stripe…

This week’s technology headlines captured both the accelerating reach of artificial intelligence and the risks accompanying that growth. OpenAI paused advanced training after a containment failure, Nvidia backed a massive AI campus, and Amazon pursued new sources of training data while expanding drone delivery. Meanwhile, major breaches, ransomware attacks, emergency patches, and spyware warnings kept security teams on alert. Robotics also moved sharply into focus through a blockbuster Chinese IPO and new supply-chain restrictions in the United States. Top news OpenAI confronts safety, privacy, and younger users OpenAI paused its largest planned frontier reinforcement-learning run, with no restart date announced,…

The artificial intelligence industry wants enterprises to measure progress in tokens, model calls and usage. But those are largely vendor-revenue metrics — not enterprise-value metrics. The Canva example shows why. On Aug. 6, The Information reported that Canva Inc. cut its 2026 revenue-growth forecast from 30% to 20% because its AI features cost far more to run than expected. Let that sink in: A company generating more than $900 million a quarter – and growing above 25% – lowered its outlook because of an input cost. Canva said it had relied too heavily on expensive third-party frontier models. The fix was…

It’s less about an autonomous vehicle’s capabilities and more about what conditions it can operate in. Karolis Kavolelis/Shutterstock Seeing a car move through city traffic with no one in the driver’s seat can make it feel like Waymo has already reached the highest possible level of automation. From a passenger’s perspective, there’s no steering, no monitoring and no need for a human to intervene. The vehicle handles the entire trip on its own. But under SAE’s (Society of Automotive Engineers) driving automation framework, that capability is still Level 4 rather than the highest: Level 5. The…