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Seven in ten Americans oppose a data center in their town News
Gallup found that 70 percent of Americans oppose building AI data centers in their local area, with 48 percent strongly opposed, and reporting says Anthropic's confidential IPO filing is expected to name public backlash against AI as a risk factor.
OpenAI cut Sol's price, and OpenRouter cut it again News
OpenAI dropped GPT-5.6 Sol to $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output on August 21, 2026, a 33 percent cut on output, and OpenRouter is separately listing the same model from OpenAI at half that.
Amazon booked a $53.4 billion gain on Anthropic, and none of it is revenue News
Amazon's second-quarter net income more than tripled to $62.6 billion, and $53.4 billion of that is a non-operating paper gain from revaluing its stake in Anthropic rather than money any customer paid.
Chinese open models passed US models in OpenRouter token share News
OpenRouter's own usage data shows Chinese models overtaking US models in token volume in early June, with DeepSeek roughly doubling its share to 18% - driven by token-hungry agent workloads routing to the cheapest capable endpoint.
OpenRouter discounted models Tool
A live collection of models currently carrying provider discounts on OpenRouter. GPT-5.6 Sol from the OpenAI provider is listed at roughly half OpenAI's own promotional rate, against $5 and $30 for the same model via Azure.