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AI news on 16 August 2026

20:57
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
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- Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouterHacker News front page
- Stripe is reportedly acquiring AI startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billionThe Decoder
- Stripe reportedly finalizes deal to buy AI model router OpenRouter for more than $7BSiliconANGLE
- Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+r/LocalLLaMA
08:12
OpenAI dissolved the team built to catch catastrophic AI risks, reassigning its work to other groups
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- OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team as part of a 'streamlining' processEngadget
- OpenAI has quietly disbanded its catastrophic risk teamr/OpenAI
23:28
Anthropic Outage Disrupts Claude Services, Fix Deployed After Login Failures
Unite.AI
20:45
Cutting RAG inference costs 6x starts with deciding what never reaches the LLM
VentureBeat
20:32
Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future
TechCrunch
18:00
You might want to skip Newegg's GPU trade-in program
Engadget
16:53
Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’
TechCrunch
15:31
Top mathematicians say LLMs are strong calculators but poor creative thinkers
The Decoder
13:00
DeepSeek's top-ranked V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks as its prices surge
VentureBeat
11:23
When AI models aren't allowed to reflect on themselves, it changes their entire worldview
The Decoder
07:20
Anthropic's bio-weapons filter was down for nearly a year, exposing 133 million requests
The Decoder
05:50
Optima tackles AI benchmarking's biggest flaw by letting users test models against their own data
The Decoder
05:00
One in five US workers now delegates tasks to AI instead of colleagues, survey finds
The Decoder