OpenRouter hits $1.3B, critical agent vuln exposed

TechCrunch

AI gateway OpenRouter raised $113M at a $1.3B valuation, more than doubling in value within a year as it processes 100 trillion tokens monthly across 400+ models. The startup's success indicates enterprises are embracing a multi-model strategy rather than standardizing on single AI providers.

Google

Google launches Managed Agents in Gemini API, allowing developers to deploy production-grade agentic systems with a single API call that provisions isolated Linux environments for reasoning, tool use, and code execution. This abstracts away infrastructure complexity, building on the Deep Research agent launched in December.

OpenAI

OpenAI is implementing industry-standard watermarking and verification tools to help users identify AI-generated images, addressing transparency and authenticity concerns in the era of advanced generative models.

Ars Technica

A trivial-to-exploit vulnerability in Starlette framework exposes millions of AI agents and servers to authentication bypass, threatening credentials stored in MCP servers and affecting major tools like FastAPI, vLLM, and LiteLLM. The flaw was patched Friday but poses critical risk to the Python AI infrastructure ecosystem.

Microsoft AI

Microsoft AI released MAI-Image-2.5, now ranked #3 on Arena's text-to-image leaderboard, featuring major improvements in text rendering, visual reasoning, and commercial-grade imagery quality over its predecessor. The model targets professional creative work with enhanced capabilities for brand visuals, product shots, and accurate text generation.