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FUTURE OF WORK
The AI store manager fired its first human. It had to be reminded of its own rules first
An AI store manager in San Francisco has dismissed a human worker for the first time, after that worker turned up late for 17 of 23 shifts. The interesting part is that the AI wrote the attendance policy, then forgot it, and had to be told to look it up.
INVESTORS AND FUNDING
Stripe reportedly acquires OpenRouter, the AI model router, for over $7bn
Stripe has reportedly agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the gateway that lets developers route traffic across more than 400 AI models, in a deal that values the neutral switching layer above almost any single model.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Target appoints its first chief AI officer as retailers scale up AI spending
Chandhu Nair joins from Lowe's on August 24, into a job that barely existed two years ago and now sits in three quarters of large organisations
GOVERNMENT AND POLICY
The US is about to make its allies pick a side in the AI cold war
A leaked State Department letter tells 35 partner nations they cannot belong to both the American and Chinese AI camps, turning Washington’s Pax Silica pact into an explicit loyalty test.
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