{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI Neanderthal by Malcolm Werchota","title":"#5 - The Richest Industry With the Least Trust","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/5ac437f7\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1739,"description":"The richest industry in the world has the least trust. Only fifteen percent of Americans trust AI companies to decide how the technology gets built — lower than any other institution tested. Meanwhile Stripe just paid seven billion dollars for the toll booth, and Amazon is shredding rare books to feed a model.\n\n🛣️ 01:07 — Stripe paid over seven billion dollars for OpenRouter — the toll booth every AI request passes through. Twenty-five trillion tokens a week, a five and a half percent fee. Like Visa buying the company that decides which bank processes your swipe.\n🤝 05:58 — Only fifteen percent of Americans trust AI companies to decide how this gets built — the lowest of any institution tested. Dario Amodei calls it fundamentally a crisis of trust.\n📚 09:24 — Amazon is buying rare books in bulk and slicing the spines to scan them. A journalist put an AirTag in one and traced it to a Las Vegas facility whose internal logo is a T. rex eating a book.\n🇩🇪 12:34 — Gutenberg's city — and what Huawei's entire chip output actually amounts to next to Nvidia's.\n✂️ 14:43 — Oracle put AI in a securities filing as the reason for cutting headcount. Not a rumour — a legal document.\n⚖️ 18:01 — The European Commission's final Article Fifty guidance is live. Anything AI-generated in Europe has to be marked as such, and the fines run to a percentage of worldwide turnover.\n🎙️ 21:33 — Two billion dollars for a dictation app. Why voice recognition companies may still be undervalued.\n🎯 25:24 — Three things for tomorrow.\n\nAI news for humans, not robots. Stay curious, stay human.\n\nMore: werchota.ai","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0Up7tcMuVZ4o57Iv4ifZS1RwZ9v586rtihtmL6xMbcU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMjM5/YzFjODNkNmY4NDNk/MDllMDE5NGQ3MjE4/NTM3ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}