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Stripe Bought OpenRouter, and It Paid for the Meter
Business Strategy
· 4 min read

Stripe Bought OpenRouter, and It Paid for the Meter

Stripe withheld the price. The FT reported around $8B for a company valued at $1.3B months earlier. Nobody pays that multiple for routing.

Stripe OpenRouter AI cost
Mark Cuban: Data Centers Become Pickleball Courts
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Mark Cuban: Data Centers Become Pickleball Courts

Cuban compares the AI buildout to the 1990s fiber glut. Alphabet's free cash flow already went negative. What that changes for companies buying AI.

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Google Bid $10M for Spirit Airlines' Internal Data
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Google Bid $10M for Spirit Airlines' Internal Data

Google won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' emails, Teams chats and source code. Then the flight attendants' union stopped the sale cold.

Spirit Airlines Google AI training data
NVIDIA Guaranteed $105B of OpenAI's Lease Obligations
Business Strategy
· 7 min read

NVIDIA Guaranteed $105B of OpenAI's Lease Obligations

NVIDIA backstopped up to $105B of OpenAI's Ohio lease. It only pays if OpenAI fails, and it terminates the moment OpenAI earns a credit rating.

NVIDIA OpenAI circular financing
Bending Spoons Bought Airtable. Now Check Your Plan.
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Bending Spoons Bought Airtable. Now Check Your Plan.

Airtable grew past $480M ARR at 20% and still sold for $1.285B cash against an $11B mark. Picking a vendor means picking its next owner too.

Airtable Bending Spoons SaaS valuation
FairMindSim: An Inverted U Built From Just 10 Models
Business Strategy
· 7 min read

FairMindSim: An Inverted U Built From Just 10 Models

A KDD 2026 paper says mid-tier models punish twice as hard as humans. The curve rests on 10 models and a correlation that misses conventional significance.

FairMindSim KDD 2026 AI moral judgment
MSO: capital doesn't buy the firm, it buys the platform
Business Strategy
· 8 min read

MSO: capital doesn't buy the firm, it buys the platform

Private equity can't own a law firm. So it buys the MSO instead: the brand, the billing systems, the case data, the AI licenses. Then it rents them back.

MSO private equity professional services
Anthropic marks what Claude touches, not what it wrote
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Anthropic marks what Claude touches, not what it wrote

Anthropic signed the EU AI Act Article 50(2) code. Claude's invisible watermark proves the text was processed, not authored. That gap is your problem.

Anthropic Claude EU AI Act
Fish Audio is 70% cheaper. ElevenLabs grew anyway
Business Strategy
· 6 min read

Fish Audio is 70% cheaper. ElevenLabs grew anyway

Fish Audio opened its weights and charges $0.05 a minute against $0.18. ElevenLabs still went from $350M to over $500M ARR. Where the moat actually moved.

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