Can someone smarter than me explain the business rationale for this deal?

Why invest in an LLM API when you are a financial service provider?

I can’t see any obvious reason to use Stripe more because of this new product.

The only hypothesis I can think of is that AI token could be a ”currency” in the future. (Which doesn’t make sense when everyone will have local LLMs)

Because they want to charge for it: https://docs.stripe.com/billing/token-billing

Route your LLM requests through the Stripe AI Gateway with an API call. Provide your prompt, model, and Customer ID, and Stripe:

1.Routes the request to the appropriate provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google).

2. Returns the model’s response to your application.

3. Records token usage for billing automatically.

4. Rejects requests when a customer has no credit left (when enabled for your account).

Does that mean all api calls to providers go through stripe?

Reading the justification for how much of a perfect partner stripe is for openrouter sounded made up, this makes it even better.

Isn't this how all if them work already? OpenAI, Anthropic, Openrouter, etc use Stripe for their billing.

Quality and accuracy of information on the internet is going to shit:

Models are already paying per search for gated access to higher accuracy info (this is abstracted by anthropic, chatgpt etc currently where they have cut deals w Google etc to allow their traffic through)

Models don’t currently interact with the economy directly in a real way (by eg themselves deciding to pay for a high quality information source), but they will within a few months as folks get more claw-like agents

Those transactions can happen with bitcoin…. or they can happen on stripe

At least that’s my read

I'll give it a go.

Stripe wants to take a cut of as many transactions as possible. Think Visa. The more, the better.

They clearly see AI token usage as a new commodity and something that will grow and grow for a long time to come.

They want to do the same. Take a small cut from as many tokens being passed around as possible.

They have predicted it will make money and a lot of people will use it, so they bought it.

I presume they use it a lot?

Do I use this instead if Github, or ontop of github?

If a friend have this camera, shuld he be worried?

Per the article, the attacker can restart the camera and potentially find the accurate position of it. However, if the attacker can be physically in proximity within the camera range, they can MITM it and intercept the video feed. So it depends on your friend's threat model. If the camera is recording something in a public location and they don't mind the location being exposed and potentially the video feed (like plenty of live public cameras), then it shouldn't be an issue. Otherwise, they need to disable it until it gets fixed.

> they can MITM it

Can they? I thought they could only do it if they're in the same LAN.

the exploit is to make camera disconnect and connect to your wifi, that's how they MITM, pretty long process unless you do it often

could be automated though?

yes, everything can be automated, and as you people don't always have time to automate everything, so it depends if your area has many c200 which is a home camera, not outdoor

not necessarily worried, but like put on some pants before entering the room

If it's isolated from the Internet, no.

As @tehlike said in a sibling comment, it looks like it is supported by https://thingino.com, so you can 'update' the firmware to a more secure (and FOSS) one!

Yep

Looks like we're back!

What many people are missing is what is in the fees. Consumer protection and risk mitigation. If you are dealing with "cash" payments, like A2A or crypto, there are no consumer protection. Not even auth and capture flows. These are basic needs in a transactional commerce system, which the card companies provide.

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Put this in your website! I understand now :)

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