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Nvidia has reached a non-exclusive deal worth $6 billion to license software from the AI coding company Poolside, while making a separate $1 billion investment. Under the arrangement, Nvidia will hire over 100 Poolside employees to support its internal projects, though the startup's leadership remains independent.

Payment platform Stripe purchased OpenRouter for $7 billion to integrate multi-model routing into its financial software. The acquisition gives Stripe immediate control over infrastructure that handles routing and processing across various machine learning services.