openrouter

Stripe is reportedly paying $7B+ for OpenRouter, Cursor shipped a GitHub rival into a six-hour GitHub outage, and Anthropic made AI-reviews-AI the default in Claude Code. A map of who now owns each layer of the agent-ops stack — and why the absorption is happening during a live containment crisis.

Three different products spent two years fighting over the phrase 'LLM router.' Aggregation won at a $1.3B valuation, gateways became table stakes, and the most-hyped category — semantic cost-routing — quietly froze on GitHub.