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Episode Synopsis
Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. Stripe is reportedly paying about seven billion dollars for OpenRouter, and nobody involved has confirmed the price or the take rate that would justify it. Meanwhile Nvidia's five hundred billion in memoranda turns out to be memoranda, Anthropic posts an eleven and a half billion dollar quarter, Gruber calls Claude's watermark a perversion of writing, and OpenAI closes the team that was supposed to think about catastrophic risk.TechCrunch on the reported Stripe/OpenRouter dealVectoral on who the token brokers actually areReuters: Nvidia scales back its OpenAI data-center guaranteeCNBC on Anthropic's second quarterSemiAnalysis on a twelve billion dollar PJM modeling errorJohn Gruber on Claude's text watermarkSimon Willison's review of Qwen 3.8 27BThe LocalLLaMA rebuttal to the Qwen consensusArs Technica: prompt injection in a court filing
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