https://theaisift.com/news/stripe-8b-openrouter-acquisition-2026 The AI Sift en 2026-08-20T12:00:00.000Z Stripe signs $8B OpenRouter deal, turning AI routing into a payments infrastructure play https://theaisift.com/news/veeda-ai-sanja-fidler-90m-world-models-2026 The AI Sift en 2026-08-19T12:00:01.000Z Sanja Fidler leaves Nvidia, raises $90M for Veeda AI and the world models race https://theaisift.com/news/marvell-google-12b-custom-chip-warrant-2026 The AI Sift en 2026-08-19T12:00:00.000Z Google secures a $12.2B stake in Marvell, the only chipmaker designing for all three hyperscalers https://theaisift.com/news/etched-700m-21b-valuation-jane-street-2026 The AI Sift en 2026-08-18T12:00:01.000Z Etched doubles valuation to $21B in three weeks as Jane Street leads $700M round https://theaisift.com/news/groq-350m-series-a-neocloud-pivot-2026 The AI Sift en 2026-08-18T12:00:00.000Z Groq raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation to complete its pivot from chipmaker to neocloud https://theaisift.com/news/spacex-cursor-60b-acquisition-2026 The AI Sift en 2026-08-15T12:00:00.000Z SpaceX closed its $60 billion Cursor deal, and the AI coding market just changed shape https://theaisift.com/news/china-ai-cost-advantage-2026 The AI Sift en 2026-08-14T12:00:01.000Z Chinese AI labs train frontier models for millions and sell access for pennies https://theaisift.com/news/openai-40b-revenue-ipo-2026 The AI Sift en 2026-08-14T12:00:00.000Z OpenAI's revenue run rate passed $40 billion, and the IPO clock just moved https://theaisift.com/news/anthropic-claude-watermarks-2026 The AI Sift en 2026-08-13T12:00:00.000Z Claude now brands every word it writes, and there is no opt-out https://theaisift.com/news/lovable-400m-series-c-13-3b-2026 The AI Sift en 2026-08-12T12:00:02.000Z Lovable raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation, and the growth math explains the speed