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WSJ: OpenAI Locks In Lease for Huge Data Center in Ohio With Backing From Nvidia (Aug. 17, 2026)
OpenAI signed a 20-year lease for a 10-gigawatt Ohio data-center campus with SB Energy, creating a major AI hub. -
David Sacks: Some thoughts on Dario’s post (Aug. 17, 2026)
Dario advocates heavy pre-deployment oversight—an FAA/FDA-style agency—that would centralize gatekeeping, favor well-funded firms like Anthropic, and slow innovation. Such regulatory capture, amplified by lobbying and fearmongering, risks closed, costly AI models, and reduced competition. -
Dario Amodei: Anthropic and Regulation (Aug. 15, 2026)
Regulation isn’t a binary choice, fair institutions can decentralize power, and policies should slow frontier firms, help smaller challengers, and allow open-weights with safeguards. -
NY Times: Meta Unveils an Open Version of Its Most Powerful A.I. Model (Aug. 10, 2026)
Meta released Muse Glimmer, an open-weights version of Muse Spark that can be freely downloaded and modified, reigniting debate over open versus restricted A.I. -
NY Times: A French Start-Up, Inbolt, Makes Robots See, and Work, Better (Aug. 17, 2026)
Inbolt adds 3-D cameras and AI to robot arms so they can see, locate parts, and adapt, cutting downtime and speeding cycles at a Stellantis plant. -
NY Times: His Start-Up’s Goal: A.I. That Is Trainable and Not Controlled by a Big Company (Aug. 11, 2026)
Igor Babuschkin left xAI to found River AI, which plans open-source, home-run servers so individuals and businesses can run, modify, and retrain A.I. on their own hardware. -
NY Times: Trump Shrugs Off A.I. and Data Center Concerns as Voters Grow Anxious (Aug. 10, 2026)
Voters worry A.I. and data centers could cost jobs, strain resources, and threaten savings, sparking protests and moratoria. President Trump and his aides remain bullish. -
WSJ: AI Has Plunged the Book Publishing Industry Into Utter Chaos (Aug. 17, 2026)
A string of scandals over suspected AI-written books has led publishers and agents to cancel deals, expose gaps in detection, and spark fights over disclosure, responsibility, and standards. -
Joshua Saxe: We urgently need a coherent national AI cybersecurity policy (Aug. 12, 2026)
Cheap AI agents will automate cyber kill chains, raise instability, and also boost defenders’ capabilities, so overall cyber risk will grow. Policy must shift from blocking dual-use models to minimizing net harms, accounting for attackers’, defenders’, and victims’ realities. -
NY Times: A.I. Agents Are Taking Entire Online Courses for Cheating Students (Aug. 10, 2026)
A.I. agents can complete entire online courses—watch lectures, take tests, write papers, and chat with classmates—making cheating widespread. -
Reason.com: Judge's Allegedly "Relying Wholly" on AI in Order Is Covered by Judicial Immunity, Court Rules (Aug. 17, 2026)
Federal court dismissed a suit accusing a state judge of relying on AI, ruling that issuing decisions is judicial and immunity applies absent a clear lack of jurisdiction. -
Tim Fist and Saif Khan: 23 low-regret recommendations for AI policy (Aug. 13, 2026)
Prepare now for automated AI R&D, using targeted thresholds, incentives to shift risky work, and low-regret policies. -
NY Times: A.I.-Driven Chip Crunch Leads to New Rush of Lobbying in Washington (Aug. 10, 2026)
The A.I. boom has sparked a memory chip shortage, quadrupling prices and driving electronics, auto, and medical firms to lobby Washington for limits. -
NY Times: Chatbots Are Pushing Us Toward a Post-Human Internet (Aug. 14, 2026)
A.I. chatbots increasingly handle tasks for and interact with people, and sometimes with one another, creating recursive “bot loops” where mistakes amplify and human roles shrink.
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