AI Safety
Five LLM Gateways, Five Failures: Researchers Read Across Customers Through the Prompt Cache
A measurement paper finds every open-source relay tested leaks cross-customer cache reads by default — and the fix costs under 2.5%.
Aug 19, 2026
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OpenAI
GPT-5.6 Sol Is Half Price on OpenRouter, Not OpenAI
A widely shared 'OpenAI cuts prices 50%' is a discount at one gateway. Call the API directly and you still pay $5 and $30.
Aug 18, 2026
Finance AI
Stripe Reportedly Signed a $7B OpenRouter Deal, Not Confirmed
The price is more than five times a valuation set 13 weeks earlier — and every figure in the story is an unconfirmed one.
Aug 17, 2026
AI Agents
Stripe Is in Talks to Buy OpenRouter for About $10 Billion — Roughly 8x Its May Valuation
OpenRouter is a switchboard: one API onto hundreds of models from OpenAI, Anthropic and the open-weight labs. Stripe wants to own the meter that sits between developers and every model they call.
Jul 24, 2026
AI Models
Chinese Models Now Move 45% of OpenRouter's Tokens, Led by Xiaomi's MiMo
A year ago Chinese models carried under 2% of OpenRouter traffic. Now four of the top five models are Chinese, Xiaomi's MiMo-V2-Pro processes more than 4 trillion tokens a week — and price is the weapon.
Jul 7, 2026
