Stripe buys OpenRouter, Claude's outage, Amodei on trust - August 17, 2026

Cortech Daily · Aug 17, 2026 · 10m

Stripe reportedly buys OpenRouter for over $7B, Claude goes dark for 42 minutes, OpenAI dissolves its preparedness team, and researchers bypass Windows 11's strongest defenses.(0:00) - Intro(0:24) - Stripe buys the model routing layer - source(1:17) - Claude goes down for forty two minutes - source(2:07) - Amodei calls the AI backlash a crisis of trust - source(3:02) - Gruber on watermarking as a perversion of writing - source(3:49) - OpenAI dissolves its preparedness team - source(5:22) - Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent and wildly overconfigured - source(6:15) - Hazmat contains your coding agent -…