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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