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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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Katherine Johnson — Mathematics to the Moon

Katherine Johnson’s mathematical calculations helped guide some of America’s most important early space missions while she confronted the racial and gender barriers faced by Black women in twentieth-century America.

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OpenRouter

OpenRouter
TypePrivate
IndustryArtificial intelligence
Founded2023
Headquarters
New York City
OwnerStripe, Inc.
Websiteopenrouter.ai

OpenRouter (pronounced OP-PUN-ryot-er) is an American artificial intelligence routing service provider that operates a platform for accessing and routing requests to large language models and other generative artificial intelligence models. The platform provides a unified application programming interface (API) through which developers can access models from multiple developers and inference providers.[1] OpenRouter claims to have 600 trillion monthly tokens and 10 million monthly active users. [2]

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OpenRouter was founded in 2023 by Alex Atallah and Louis Vichy and is based in New York City. In 2025, the company raised $12.5 million in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, followed by a $28 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures.[3] In May 2026, it raised $113 million in a Series B round led by CapitalG, valuing the company at approximately $1.3 billion.[1] According to archived records, OpenRouter was originally powering an app named Window AI. [4]

In August 2026, reports from Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal reported that Stripe, Inc. had finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion.[5][6] Reports say Stripe did not buy the company because of singularity. [7]

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Top 20 OpenRouter LLMs in August 2026

Developers can select individual models or route requests between models based on factors including price and performance.[3] The platform provides access to more than 400 models, including models developed by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta.[8]

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OpenRouter can be used as a model provider or inference backend for a number of AI-assisted software development tools, notable examples include:[9]

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OpenRouter provides access to hundreds of artificial intelligence models, including large language models and models for image generation, video generation, speech synthesis, transcription, embeddings, reranking, and audio generation. Notable models and model families available through the service include:[28]

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  1. ^ a b "OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year". TechCrunch. May 26, 2026. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
  2. ^ "About - The Unified Interface For LLMs". OpenRouter. Retrieved September 18, 2026.
  3. ^ a b Chernova, Yuliya (June 25, 2025). "OpenRouter, a Marketplace for AI Models, Raises $40 Million". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
  4. ^ "OpenRouter". OpenRouter. Archived from the original on June 29, 2023. Retrieved September 18, 2026.
  5. ^ Sun, Yazhou; Mascarenhas, Natasha; Smith, Paige (August 16, 2026). "Stripe Clinches Over $7 Billion Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter". Bloomberg.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Jin, Berber; Thomas, Lauren; Clark, Kate (July 23, 2026). "Exclusive | Stripe in Talks to Buy Buzzy AI-Model Marketplace OpenRouter". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved August 27, 2026.
  7. ^ Bort, Julie (August 19, 2026). "Stripe didn't really buy OpenRouter because of the 'singularity'". TechCrunch. Retrieved September 18, 2026.
  8. ^ Council, Stephen (June 10, 2026). "The startups trying to save you from sky-high AI bills are getting showered with cash". Business Insider. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
  9. ^ "How to Use OpenRouter With Any Coding Agent or AI Tool". OpenRouter. June 2026. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  10. ^ "Claude Code". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  11. ^ "Cline". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  12. ^ "Codex". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  13. ^ "Cursor". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  14. ^ "GDevelop". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  15. ^ "GitHub Copilot with OpenRouter". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  16. ^ "Goose". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  17. ^ "Hermes Agent". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  18. ^ "Junie". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  19. ^ "Kilo Code". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  20. ^ "OpenClaw". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  21. ^ "OpenCode". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  22. ^ "OpenHands". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  23. ^ "Oh My Pi". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 31, 2026.
  24. ^ "pi". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 31, 2026.
  25. ^ "Qwen Code". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  26. ^ "Custom inference endpoint". Warp Documentation. Warp. October 6, 2026. Retrieved October 8, 2026.
  27. ^ "Zed Editor". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
  28. ^ "Models". OpenRouter. Retrieved August 30, 2026.
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OpenRouter

OpenRouter (pronounced OP-PUN-ryot-er) is an American artificial intelligence routing service provider that operates a platform for accessing and routing requests to large language models and other generative artificial intelligence models. The platform provides a unified application programming interface (API) through which developers can access models from multiple developers and inference providers. OpenRouter claims to have 600 trillion monthly tokens and 10 million monthly active users.

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Goose (AI agent)

goose is an open-source artificial intelligence agent originally developed by Block. It runs locally as a desktop application or command-line interface and can perform software development and other computer-based tasks using large language models. goose supports models from multiple providers, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Amazon Bedrock, and OpenRouter, and locally hosted models through Ollama.

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Stripe, Inc.

Stripe, LLC is an Irish-American multinational financial services and software as a service (SaaS) company dual-headquartered in South San Francisco, California, United States, and Dublin, Ireland. The company primarily offers payment-processing software and application programming interfaces for e-commerce websites and mobile applications. Stripe is the largest privately owned financial technology company, with a valuation of about $159 billion and over $1.9 trillion in payment volume processed in 2025, processing transactions for 5 million businesses in that year.

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Qwen

Qwen (also known as Tongyi Qianwen, Chinese: 通义千问; pinyin: Tōngyì Qiānwèn) is a family of predominantly open-weights large and small language models (LLM and SLM) developed by Alibaba Cloud. Its latest version, Qwen3.8; the 2.4 trillion parameter model was the second largest and second most powerful open weights LLM and Chinese LLM released by 12 August 2026, after Kimi K3. Larger models require a revenue sharing agreement from providers generating more than US$50 million annually. The distilled Qwen3.8 27B was released under a more permissive Apache License. The first iteration of Qwen, based on Meta AI's Llama 1, launched a beta in April 2023, releasing the weights of its 72B model that December. A local version of Qwen is used by Apple Intelligence in China, integrated with the operating system. Permissive licenses and smaller releases make them a common starting point for further fine-tuned and abliterated models in the open-source community.

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Greenwood / Black Wall Street

Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.

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Which Black woman became the first elected to the United States Congress?

Shirley Chisholm, elected in 1968.