Signal: The argument about AI has moved into institutions that can compel answers -- a court, a royal commission, a ballot -- while the industry buys the plumbing.
The family of a man killed at Florida State has sued OpenAI in federal court, citing 16,000 chats in which the shooter asked about gun operations and when the campus would be busiest -- OpenAI says ChatGPT is not responsible.
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.
Alibaba's 27B Open Model Claims Opus Parity
Kaitchup: Qwen released the 2.4T weights the same week, in four open drops
