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Today’s highlights
- OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team — 2026-08-16
- According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop ways to mitigate those risks. (Y
- Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ — 2026-08-16
- OpenRouter’s CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
- Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future — 2026-08-16
- On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.
- Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal crafted a hip hop breakup masterpiece — 2026-08-16
- “Breakups are… tough.” It’s the opening lines of an interlude towards the end of DOOMED! Called “It Happens in Every Universe.” It’s also basically the thesis of the entire record. It’s no grand revelation, but it’s a we
- Amazon is trying to crush class-action suits before they get started — 2026-08-16
- On Friday, Amazon customers received an email alerting them to an update to the site’s terms and conditions. Most notably, it stated that disputes would now be resolved through arbitration and said users agree to a class
- Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’ — 2026-08-16
- Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he’s been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.
- TechCrunch Mobility: The shifting flight path of electric air taxis — 2026-08-16
- Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
- ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes — 2026-08-16
- ChatGPT’s desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done. It uses yo