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Stripe agrees to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion in AI gateway bet

Gateway infrastructure for AI model selection is attracting acquisition premiums that dwarf the underlying funding rounds. Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, Bloomberg reported, more than five times…

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DEALSStripe agrees to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion in AI gateway betAugust 16, 2026/MARKETSThe four stocks Wall Street fears most are also its best performersAugust 16, 2026/EARNINGSChrissy Metz goes public with GLP-1 use and partners with telehealth firm RoAugust 16, 2026/MACROBTIG warns on complacency as equity markets near their worst seasonal stretchAugust 16, 2026/DEALSPhilips Hue Essential four-pack falls to record low as Prime Day deals prove stickyAugust 16, 2026/TEADTeads Holding Co. receives Nasdaq minimum bid price notice, has until February 2027 to complyAugust 16, 2026/$BTCHyperscale Data sells 685 bitcoin for $43 million to fund Michigan AI data centerAugust 16, 2026/$SOLSolana fee overhaul targets resource-heavy transactions and lifts SOL burnAugust 16, 2026/DEALSStripe agrees to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion in AI gateway betAugust 16, 2026/MARKETSThe four stocks Wall Street fears most are also its best performersAugust 16, 2026/EARNINGSChrissy Metz goes public with GLP-1 use and partners with telehealth firm RoAugust 16, 2026/MACROBTIG warns on complacency as equity markets near their worst seasonal stretchAugust 16, 2026/DEALSPhilips Hue Essential four-pack falls to record low as Prime Day deals prove stickyAugust 16, 2026/TEADTeads Holding Co. receives Nasdaq minimum bid price notice, has until February 2027 to complyAugust 16, 2026/$BTCHyperscale Data sells 685 bitcoin for $43 million to fund Michigan AI data centerAugust 16, 2026/$SOLSolana fee overhaul targets resource-heavy transactions and lifts SOL burnAugust 16, 2026/
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The four stocks Wall Street fears most are also its best performers

Four stocks that Wall Street has ranked as its most hated and feared are also, by the market's own accounting, delivering performances that have been described as unbelievable. The combination is forcing a reckoning with a…

By Elias Vance · 2 min

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Chrissy Metz goes public with GLP-1 use and partners with telehealth firm Ro

Against the backdrop of widening public appetite for GLP-1 medications, actress Chrissy Metz has become the latest high-profile figure to disclose her own use of one, announcing a partnership with Ro, a telehealth company

By Priya Kurup · 2 min

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BTIG warns on complacency as equity markets near their worst seasonal stretch

Seasonality in equity markets rarely receives its due attention until it is already working. BTIG has issued a warning on what it characterizes as high levels of market complacency, timed to the approach

By Freya Lindqvist · 2 min

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Philips Hue Essential four-pack falls to record low as Prime Day deals prove sticky

Smart home hardware is moving through one of its more aggressive discounting cycles, with connected lighting offers outlasting the Prime Day event that produced them. Against that backdrop, Philips Hue's four-bulb Essential…

August 16, 2026 · 2 min

Regulatory

Teads Holding Co. receives Nasdaq minimum bid price notice, has until February 2027 to comply

When a Nasdaq-listed stock closes below $1.00 for thirty straight sessions, the exchange's Listing Qualifications Department sends a letter. Teads Holding Co. (TEAD) received that letter on Aug

August 16, 2026 · 2 min

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Hyperscale Data sells 685 bitcoin for $43 million to fund Michigan AI data center

The AI infrastructure buildout is pulling corporate bitcoin positions into the capex cycle. Hyperscale Data

August 16, 2026 · 2 min

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Solana fee overhaul targets resource-heavy transactions and lifts SOL burn

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3G Capital Partners exits Amazon and opens Intel position in second-quarter filings

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