Breaking news on Pulley and public IOI / offer to acquire them: Before you shut down your startup, hand your customers to your biggest competitor, and accept a fraction of the preference stack back as an earn-out… Meessage me first. Pulley had roughly $50M of preferred capital…↗

OpenAI quietly bought a startup developing higher quality cameras for smartphones for ~$300M. Scoop w/ @anissagardizy8 wsj.com/tech/openai-bu…↗

Scoop: Salesforce has held talks to buy Listen Labs for around $2B businessinsider.com/salesforce-acq… $CRM w/ @thebenbergman↗

Here's Stripe's letter to investors explaining its acquisition of OpenRouter (LEAKED)↗

1/ Stripe has signed an agreement to acquire OpenRouter. OpenRouter will continue to operate as it is: same name, same product, same roadmap, same mission. But now, we will do it faster, and with Stripe's unparalleled excellence and reach.↗

OpenRouter is joining Stripe: stripe.com/newsroom/news/…. As anyone who uses it knows, @OpenRouter is a truly delightful developer tool. It is by far the best way to use new models and manage multiple inference providers. OpenRouter is also playing an increasingly important rol…↗

Scoop: Anthropic is in talks to acquire Decart for $6 billion, a rare massive acquisition for the Claude maker & a key development in the race to build more efficient AI infrastructure w/ @Lynnmdoan, @rngould & @shiringhaffary bloomberg.com/news/articles/…↗

Cognition is acquiring @Interaction, the makers of Poke. If you've ever used Poke, you know why we're so excited.↗

google paid $2.7b to acquire him in 24 & couldn’t hold him 18mo later. that’s pretty insane. i don’t even know a good sports analogy that works here. feels like they recruited ai jesus.↗

TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI! The show is staying the same and we’ll continue to go live at 11am pacific every weekday. This is a full circle moment for me as I’ve worked with @sama for well over a decade. He funded my first company in 2013. Then helped us fix a serious log…↗

OpenAI Acquires TBPN x.com/i/broadcasts/1…↗

Small Bets is joining Gumroad! Yes, I sold Small Bets. I’m going to keep running it myself, but Gumroad is now the 100% owner. It’s a good deal for me, and it should only bring more benefits to the community. Details - $3.6M sale price. - 50% cash / 50% stock options. - Cash…↗