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Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for over $7 billion — a company whose CEO described it as "the equivalent of Stripe for AI." The deal puts a single payment processor in control of the routing layer that sits between developers and 400+ AI models, raising real questions about what a non-neutral router means for the model access market.
Read more →A protocol released during Cloudflare Agents Week lets AI agents autonomously create accounts, purchase domains, and deploy to production using Stripe for identity attestation and tokenized payments. The $100/month default spending cap is the least interesting part of a design that crosses a real threshold: agents as autonomous infrastructure consumers.
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