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California is deciding who may verify AI, and one investigation already cost $400,000 in tokens

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California’s legislature has passed SB 813, requiring the state to certify independent verification organisations that can test frontier AI models by January 2028. The METR investigation into OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident consumed about $400,000 in API credits provided free by OpenAI, using a mode…

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  1. 2026-09-05 18:32 · The Next Web
    California is deciding who may verify AI, and one investigation already cost $400,000 in tokens

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