Stripe Reportedly Acquires AI Gateway Startup OpenRouter for $7B+

Stripe is reportedly set to acquire OpenRouter, an AI gateway startup, for more than $7 billion, according to TechCrunch. OpenRouter functions as a unified API layer that routes requests across multiple large language model providers, giving developers a single integration point for accessing a range of AI models.

OpenRouter's CEO has previously described the company as "Stripe for AI" — a framing that draws a parallel to Stripe's role as a payment infrastructure layer, positioning OpenRouter similarly within the AI API ecosystem. If completed, the acquisition would mark one of the larger consolidation moves in the AI infrastructure space to date, bringing OpenRouter's routing and gateway capabilities under Stripe's financial and developer tooling umbrella.

ChatGPT Desktop App Introduces Computer History Feature on macOS

OpenAI has rolled out a new feature called Computer History for ChatGPT's macOS desktop application, The Verge reports. The feature monitors user activity — including clicks and keystrokes — and converts that activity into a structured timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can reference when responding to user requests.

According to The Verge, Computer History is designed to help the assistant understand how a user works, surface automation suggestions, and resume tasks that were left incomplete. The activity data captured by the feature is used as context to inform model responses, effectively giving ChatGPT a persistent record of on-device behavior to draw from during interactions.

The feature represents an expansion of OpenAI's agentic and automation capabilities on the desktop, building on the Codex integration to enable more context-aware task handling.

These two developments highlight continued momentum in AI infrastructure consolidation and the expansion of AI assistants into persistent, activity-aware desktop experiences.