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Google Pixel 11 review: great design, nice camera features, and shares many features of the Pro phone but the hardware is unchanged and very expensive at $899 (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
Stripe is acquiring New York-based OpenRouter for $7.5 billion, allocating $1.5 billion to the startup’s founders and $6 billion to investors, linking Stripe’s payments platform with OpenRouter’s AI model routing services. Meanwhile, Marvell Technology granted Google warrants to purchase up to 59 million shares at $206.58 each, valuing the deal at roughly $12.2 billion, while OpenAI announced a Private Safety Processing technique that detects misuse patterns without retaining user data.