AI News, Aug 19–22: Stripe Paid $8B for a Router
Stripe bought OpenRouter at six times its May valuation. Nvidia's harness took Claude from 30% to 100%, and ten studies reported the thing didn't work.
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Paradigm AI: Pricing, Credits, and Alternatives
Paradigm is an AI spreadsheet where every cell can run an agent. What credits really cost, where the model breaks down, and four alternatives.
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AI News Roundup: OpenAI Retires GPT-5 as Microsoft Walks Back Its AI Overload
OpenAI phases out GPT-5 and GPT-4o ahead of GPT-5.2 dominance, Microsoft retreats from aggressive Windows 11 AI integration, and a WashPo investigation reveals how Grok became a porn generator.