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Tollbooths on the Token Highway

TL;DR Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter for over $7 billion, months after buying Metronome, the token-metering company behind OpenAI and Anthropic's billing. Together, the two deals assemble a complete AI economic stack — metering, routing, and payment — under one company. This is the toll-booth structure TCPG was built to price. For hospitality operators, the practical effect is that model cost is becoming a moving target set by a router's private logic, not a vendor's published rate…

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