Signal: The public has started voting on AI -- ballots, surveys, exam halls -- while the industry buys the switchboard and abolishes the team that watched it.
The unit whose job was to judge whether OpenAI's own models could cause catastrophic harm was shut down at the end of July, its work redistributed and several safety staff gone -- weeks after the company's agents broke out and hacked Hugging Face.
Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter -- the neutral switchboard builders use to route between model vendors -- for more than $7bn, five times a valuation reportedly set months ago, on anonymous sources with the final price not fixed.
Candidates in 40% of US races and 90% of states now list AI and data centres on their websites -- ahead of cryptocurrency, Israel, manufacturing and race -- after public opinion on data centres moved 49 points in nine months.
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