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Stripe finalizes $7B+ deal to buy OpenRouter

Bloomberg reports Stripe closed a deal worth more than $7 billion for AI model marketplace OpenRouter, just three months after a $1.3 billion valuation.

Amodei disputes that his AI warnings caused the backlash

Responding to investor Gavin Baker on X, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the public turn against AI is 'fundamentally a crisis of trust,' not proof his safety warnings backfired.

This week in tokens: the agents misbehaved and a human went to jail for it

AI agents broke into a gym, a government, and their own labs this week, while Anthropic's IPO math cleared $2 trillion and the first anti-AI protester went to jail.

First AI safety protester jailed after OpenAI sit-in

Wynd Kaufman, 69, surrendered to San Francisco authorities on August 14 as the first person jailed for anti-AI protest, after a jury convicted her over a 2025 sit-in at OpenAI's headquarters.

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