Dr. Eli David

@drelidavid

AI Researcher, Lecturer, Entrepreneur & Investor | 4x Founder | Top 100 Most Influential 𝕏 Accounts | All opinions are my own.

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Open models reportedly hit 78.4% of Vercel AI Gateway token volume on September 19

Combined inference spending on Moonshot AI, DeepSeek and Z.ai surpassed OpenAI's on Vercel AI Gateway, a September 19 post says. The figures cover spending across providers, not revenue paid directly to the open-weight model labs.

1 Source, 31d ago, first seen 31d ago

OpenAI reportedly tops Anthropic in weekly OpenRouter spending

OpenRouter said on September 15, 2026, that its users spent more on OpenAI models than on Anthropic models the previous week—a first in more than 2.5 years.

20 Sources, 35d ago, first seen 35d ago

Government merging with AI labs would be a “nightmare scenario,” one user warns

The user fears a merger that leaves government with “total control over everyone's cognition.”

5 Sources, 38d ago, first seen 38d ago

The choice between centralizing and dispersing power in AI

Another post predicts AI will become “our interface to the world” and accuses people seeking sweeping controls out of fear of catastrophe of working to create a surveillance state.

129 Sources, 10d ago, updated 10d ago

Do AI extinction warnings help or hurt safety efforts?

CBS Mornings reports that current and former Anthropic employees warned AI could kill all humans. Critics worry exaggerated forecasts could undermine trust, while a defender of numerical forecasts argues they convey the seriousness of the concern.