Stripe wants a foothold in AI, and it is willing to pay dearly for it. The payments company is in talks to buy OpenRouter for about $10 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported. That is a staggering price for a startup valued at just $1.3 billion in M…
VW said operating profits dived 9.5% in the 2nd quarter while sales for 2026 would slip 3%, reversing an earlier positive prediction. Will this weaken union negotiators?
Patreon is cutting a fifth of its staff. Its founder wants you to know it is not because of AI. On Thursday the creator-payments company laid off 93 people, about 20% of its workforce, as 404 Media first reported. Chief executive Jack Conte called the …
Microsoft is remaking its own stack for the AI era, on both offence and defence. This week it moved on two fronts. It began pulling OpenAI’s models out of its most-used apps to cut costs. And it set a date to kill the text-message login, blaming a wave…
AT&T is expanding its WNBA investment at All-Star with new fan technology, community activations, and a long-term strategy to grow women’s basketball.
A new Joker actor is heading to DC, but not in the DCU or opposite Robert Pattinson. Here’s where the House of the Dragon star will show up.
The AI “startups” worth billions of dollars are raising alarm bells about Chinese AI. The smaller players have a totally different take.
Tired of superheroes yet? Well, Marvel doesn’t think you are, and it has plans for new movies through 2042, plus 10 seasons of X-Men ’97.
Dassault Systèmes is one of Europe’s largest software companies, and it is having an anxious year. Its shares are down about a quarter this year. It pushed out its chairman in February. And investors worry that a new wave of AI could hollow out its mai…
The four best new shows on TV this week all have perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes scores from critics. Here they are.