EPISODE · Aug 17, 2026 · 12 MIN
Episode 430: Anthropic's $11.5B Revenue Surge, Stripe's $7B OpenRouter Bet, and America's Offshore Detention System
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In this episode, we break down Anthropic's staggering 14x year-over-year revenue growth and potential trillion-dollar IPO, Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter for $7+ billion, and Alibaba's Qwen models hitting 3 billion downloads—signaling a major shift in the AI competitive landscape. We also cover Lockheed Martin's new affordable drone interceptor, Nintendo's Pokémon comeback hopes, and a sobering investigation into the Trump administration's overseas detention system, where the U.S. is paying developing nations to indefinitely hold deportees with no legal recourse. Plus: the weakening dollar, shifting housing market dynamics, and why Dario Amodei felt compelled to defend Anthropic's safety-first approach on X. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 430: Anthropic's $11.5B Revenue Surge, Stripe's $7B OpenRouter Bet, and America's Offshore Detention System
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