SITUATION EXPLAINED: Stripe says the singularity began on January 1st. • From the investor letter: "We decided that January 1st marked the beginning of the singularity, and we have since been operating on that basis." • Their evidence is a large inflection in long-run trends, including a huge increase in the rate of new firm creation • They bought OpenRouter for more than $8 billion, their largest acquisition ever, three months after it raised at $1.3 billion • Token consumption is compounding…