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Thursday, August 20, 2026
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★ Must ReadOpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections

A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.

“OpenAI Takes Initial Steps To Address Its Alignment Problems”
— Zvi Mowshowitz

OpenAI has some severe misalignment problems, and experienced total failures of its infrastructure and supervision.

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“Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute”
— The Verge AI

“Compute is an asset class! Compute is an asset class! ” I continue to insist as I slowly shrink down and turn into a corncob | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images April - 1805 Napoleon is master of Europe Only the British fleet stands before him Compute is now an asset class I see it is once again time to talk financial innovation.

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★ Must ReadBREAKING: OpenAI’s unraveling has begun

Their planned IPO is facing headwinds, trust has evaporated, and their burn rate is only getting worse

Google’s biggest mistake?

A theory about what went wrong, and some open questions about what might happen next

Import AI 469: Science AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck's technological pessimism

The new frontier of AI is developing capable autonomous researchers

★ Must ReadContext Problems

AI by Hand — Context Problems

Cost Forecast

AI by Hand — Cost Forecast

Quadratic Cost

AI by Hand — Quadratic Cost

[AINews] Memory prices up 500% in 12 months

the Memory crunch continues - Moore’s Law reversed to 2007 levels

“OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections”
— Lucas Ropek, TechCrunch AI
“OpenAI Takes Initial Steps To Address Its Alignment Problems”
— Zvi Mowshowitz
“OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?”
— Robert Hart, The Verge AI