1/ Stripe has signed an agreement to acquire OpenRouter.
OpenRouter will continue to operate as it is: same name, same product, same roadmap, same mission. But now, we will do it faster, and with Stripe's unparalleled excellence and reach.
OpenRouter is joining Stripe: stripe.com/newsroom/news/str….
As anyone who uses it knows, @OpenRouter is a truly delightful developer tool. It is by far the best way to use new models and manage multiple inference providers.
OpenRouter is also playing an increasingly important role: in the future, every business will have to manage both revenue flows and token flows. OpenRouter is the world's leading token marketplace, helping businesses effectively allocate the new currency of intelligence capital. We think that there's a lot to build together.
Introducing B3IQ.
A new model to own, run and monetize compute.
Already being used by faculty, researchers, and student teams at Stanford, NYU, Penn, UChicago, Dartmouth, Waterloo, and the University of Hawaiʻi.
New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models.
Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with.
We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude.
Switched from Claude Max to CodeX last month. @claudeai produced too many hallucinations and forced constant rework
CodeX boosted development efficiency
still rely on Claude to condense and craft info
improved in recent weeks
@grok delivers the best results for news ( ex : Pearl )
Opus 4.8 released
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors.
Available today at the same price.
ALT Benchmark table showing how Claude Opus 4.8 compares to its predecessor and to other models on tests of coding, agentic skills, reasoning, and practical knowledge work tasks.
satUSD payment on @yodlpay@yodlpay lets you spend stablecoins in the real world. Now live with satUSD across Vietnam, Brazil, Argentina and the Philippines, from street vendors to local stores
Payments mark the clearest signal of stablecoin adoption. satUSD now settles daily purchases for merchants across four emerging markets
Paid for Vietnamese street coffee with satUSD.
Street vendor received VND instantly.
No cash. No card. No bank.
@RiverdotInc stablecoin in the wild.
Just use yodl.
1/ Controversial take: hard work is more important than smart work.
It's a myth that we only have a few hours of good creative work per day. Train yourself to grind long hours first. You will surprise yourself. The work naturally become higher quality, less distracted.
You'll get more done in 4 hours of deep work than 7 days of distracted work.
High - Quality Work = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus)
All you need is a Weekly Schedule System.
Find my free template in the YouTube video below:
Bonsoir, Cannes 🇫🇷
River Sessions wrapped last night. Grateful for every builder, creator, and contributor in the room. Hope you felt the energy and enjoyed the vibe
Here from the start or just discovered River, glad you're here
The river flows on