Stripe-OpenRouter Deal, Nvidia's $1.5B Data Center Bet, Groq's Neocloud Pivot — AI News Briefing
Stripe is reportedly acquiring AI gateway OpenRouter for $7B+, while Nvidia pours $1.5B into a SoftBank-backed data center developer behind OpenAI projects. Groq pivots to a neocloud model with a fresh $350M raise, Amazon faces backlash over destroying rare texts for AI training, and Anthropic frames the AI backlash as a crisis of trust while detailing Claude's new watermarks.