Browsing: Stripe

Payment infrastructure fintech Stripe is getting into a new infrastructure layer this week. The California-based company has acquiredClerky, a company that offers legal infrastructure that startups need during and after formation. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

New research highlights the growing need for fast payouts and financial tools as gig work becomes a larger part of workers’ financial lives.

Ransomnews researchers have documented a large-scale leak of Stripe merchant API keys found exposed in public code repositories, GitHub Actions logs, and misconfigured web servers, with over 50,000 unique keys identified in total. The research is practical rather than theoretical: the team tested a sample of the keys, found a meaningful portion still active, and…

Stripe confirmed on Wednesday that it was buying OpenRouter. While the company didn’t disclose the deal price, sources told the New York Times that it paid $7.5 billion.

On August 18th, 2026, a data release occurred on the illicit forum pwnforums. The threat actor known as Satanic published sensitive information extracted from hundreds of vendors utilizing the Stripe payment platform.

Add to Google Preferred Sources Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire AI startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. OpenRouter, founded in 2023, provides developers with access to hundreds of AI models and serves 8 million users. The deal comes months after the company raised funding at…

Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, according to a new report in Bloomberg.

PayPal CEO Enrique Lores’ turnaround plan for the fintech company could include a sale — of itself.