Ranking AI Labs on Safety, AT&T’s Open-Source Pivot, Stripe to Buy AI Marketplace OpenRouter

In this week’s Editor’s Cut, Martin Peers and Meredith Mazzilli talk with guest TITV Host Rocket Drew about Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter and potential PayPal moves. We also talk with Aaron Holmes about AT&T using open-source models to curb Anthropic and OpenAI costs, and we get into AI safety standards and frontier company scorecards with Steven Adler, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Guidelight AI Standards.

Articles discussed on this episode: 

https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/t-using-open-source-models-curb-anthropic-bills

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/new-robotics-arms-race-can-craziest-hype-video

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Chapters:

00:00 - Introduction

01:13 - Stripe Acquires OpenRouter for $7.5B

10:05 - Stripe’s Potential PayPal Deal

12:30 - AT&T Cuts AI Bills with Open Source

21:29 - Assessing Security Practices of AI Labs