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…