DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, August 17, 2026

From DX Today | No-Hype Podcast About AI & DX Rick Spair

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, August 17, 2026 Today's episode covers a wave of dealmaking and buildout across the AI landscape. Stripe finalizes an agreement to acquire model routing startup OpenRouter for more than seven billion dollars, one of the largest consolidations yet in AI infrastructure. OpenAI disbands its Preparedness team, folding catastrophic risk work into other units ahead of an expected public offering. Alibaba agrees to sell its Lingxi Games unit for at least one and a ...