Stripe

New Capabilities

Provides Link as one of Muse's checkout options; Shopify offers Shop Pay

Meta released Muse, its personal AI agent, to US users on September 8. By October 20 it had 10.9 million downloads in its first 40 days, 10.2 million of them in the US, and at its September 23 Connect conference Meta added Walmart, Sephora and Shopify as retail partners.

Updated 2 days ago

Money Moves

Acquirer; deal announced in August, no closing confirmed as of October 19, 2026.

Stripe confirmed in August that it will buy OpenRouter, the AI gateway that routes app requests to more than 400 models, for a reported $7.5 billion to $8 billion. OpenRouter was valued at $1.3 billion in May; its monthly revenue reached about $13 million by August, according to The Information, and as of October 19, 2026, neither company had announced the deal closed.

Updated Oct 19