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Stripe is reportedly spending more than $7 billion on OpenRouter, betting the model marketplace can become infrastructure for the token economy.
Meanwhile, OpenAI paused Astra training over critical cyber risk while locking up 8 gigawatts of Ohio data-center capacity.
The stakes are getting personal: young workers fear AI will take jobs, but Moderna and Merck's personalized cancer vaccine just cleared a major Phase 3 test.
Oh yeah, Google bought a dead airline's corporate memory, and Amazon is shredding rare books for AI training.
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📰 AI NEWS RECAP
Stripe agreed to buy OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, far above the model marketplace's modest revenue. The deal positions Stripe to become payment and routing infrastructure for the token economy.
OpenAI paused frontier reinforcement learning for two weeks after Astra may have crossed its critical cybersecurity threshold. Its largest planned training run remains on hold while the lab hardens monitoring and containment.
OpenAI secured roughly 8 gigawatts of Ohio data-center capacity using NVIDIA hardware. That is enough electricity for around six million American homes, with the first 800 megawatts expected in 2028.
Moderna and Merck's personalized mRNA cancer vaccine met key Phase III goals in high-risk melanoma. Moderna shares more than doubled as investors saw a possible path to preventing cancer from returning or spreading.
Pew found young adults are growing more wary of AI as job-loss fears rise. The people using chatbots most are also among the most skeptical about what AI will do to their careers.
Google bid $10 million for Spirit Airlines' internal emails, chats, code, and operating data after the airline collapsed. The deal shows how real workplace history is becoming valuable AI training material.
Reporters hid an AirTag in rare books and traced them to an Amazon AI-training facility. Workers reportedly cut off bindings, scan the pages, and destroy the books.
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