Stripe moves to buy an AI model router and take another run at PayPal in the same week, while Wall Street starts pricing in what happens if AI capex meets higher rates. Plus a faster Gemini, California votes on 30 AI bills, and a wildcard: a shredded star's debris outliving the black hole that ate it.

Anthony Ha · Aug 16

Stripe is finalizing a deal to acquire AI model router OpenRouter for more than $7 billion.

Tulsee Doshi · Aug 13

Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash, a faster workhorse model for coding and agents, three weeks after Gemini 3.6.

Lucas Ropek · Aug 14

Stripe and Advent International are negotiating a higher-priced takeover of PayPal after an initial bid was rejected.

Jeran Wittenstein, Ryan Vlastelica · Aug 16

Bloomberg examines how rising Treasury yields could threaten the AI-driven stock market rally as hyperscaler capex accelerates.

Simon Willison · Aug 16

Simon Willison reviews Qwen 3.8 27B, a strong open-weight local model that over-reasons under its default settings.

Sean Goedecke · Aug 16

Sean Goedecke argues backlash over Anthropic's AI text watermarking is overblown since it doesn't degrade output quality.

Tim Fist, Saif Khan · Aug 14

Noah Smith publishes a guest post from Tim Fist and Saif Khan listing 23 low-regret AI policy recommendations.

Terrence Hill · Aug 13

California lawmakers held a compressed suspense-committee vote on roughly 30 AI bills covering chatbot safety and copyright.

Scott McFetridge · Aug 13

The Associated Press reports marathon organizers are shifting schedules and routes as rising temperatures threaten runner safety.