Pornhub says the UK's new internet age checks have boosted non-compliant porn sites, which occupied seven of the top 10 search results for "free porn" in June (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Stripe is buying New York-based OpenRouter for $7.5 billion, allocating $1.5 billion to the startup’s founders and $6 billion to its investors. The acquisition links Stripe’s payments platform with OpenRouter’s technology that routes business spending across multiple AI models, strengthening Stripe’s position in the AI services market.