Stripe's $7.5B OpenRouter Bet
How the payments giant's largest-ever acquisition signals that the money in AI is migrating from the models to the meter that counts them.
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Wall Street Steals Tech's Crown
How New York overtook the Bay Area as the biggest US tech-talent market — and why finance, not AI, did the stealing.
Google's Button for a Broken Bargain
How Google's new Preferred Sources button tries to patch the publisher economy its own AI search is dismantling.
AI's $100B Debt Habit
How Broadcom's plan to borrow more than $60 billion for AI chips turns compute buildout into a Wall Street asset class.
Nvidia's $6B Non-Acquisition
How Nvidia's Poolside deal — a license, an investment, and 109 job offers — became the new template for buying AI without buying the company.
The DOJ Comes for Venture Capital
How a probe into two board seats could rewrite the rules for how VCs back competing AI startups.
SK Hynix Hands Back $28.6 Billion
How a record buyback from the world's key AI-memory maker became a referendum on the AI spending boom.
Stripe's $7 Billion Bet on AI's Toll Booth
How Stripe's purchase of OpenRouter turns AI model routing into a payments-style infrastructure play.
The SEC's Quiet Green Light
How a technical SEC ruling on data-center bonds removed a brake on AI infrastructure financing—and why a footnote about "financial assets" carries billions in consequences.
Stripe Buys the Switchboard
How Stripe's $7 billion purchase of OpenRouter turns the messy business of choosing an AI model into payments infrastructure—and a new kind of toll booth.