California is deciding who may verify AI, and one investigation already cost $400,000 in tokens
THE SO WHAT
Verification is becoming a licensed profession with a real cost structure—California’s SB 813 and METR’s ~$400,000 token burn show evals are neither cheap nor purely academic. If you build or buy frontier models, budget for third‑party verification as a line item and start mapping which certifiers will actually matter to your regulators and customers.
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