After clearing a regulatory hurdle in California last week, Charter announced that it has officially completed its deal, which will bring its Spectrum products to customers in all former Cox markets in mid-September. Charter also plans on changing its name to Cox Communications within a year after the transaction.
[Charter Communications]
The acquisition will combine Stripe’s payments platform with OpenRouter, which connects developers to a range of AI models while aggregating the costs of using each one. Stripe hasn’t disclosed the terms of the deal, but The New York Times reports that it’s purchasing the startup for $7.5 billion.
[The New York Times]
SpaceX approached the AI coding startup with an offer, though “the deal talks are not currently active,” according to a report from Bloomberg. The two companies are still reportedly discussing potential partnerships, which could involve Cognition using SpaceX’s computing capacity.
“This is not true,” Cognition co-founder and CEO Scott Wu says on X. “Huge respect for the SpaceX team but Cognition is not for sale and we haven’t been talking.”
Update: Added post from Cognition’s CEO.
MS Now — formerly MSNBC — is rolling out a $7.99 / month ($79.99 / year) subscription on September 9th, which will serve as an “additive experience” to the news network, according to an announcement. It will include access to livestreams and TV programming inside the MS Now app, along with the ability to interact with journalists, community features, and “new verticals that explore how news and politics impact everyday life.”
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The company responded to Apple’s new App Store policies in a post on X, claiming the updated fees “do nothing to open up the mobile app ecosystem to competition” and “deliberately violate” the EU’s Digital Markets Act.
