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The US is about to tell 35 countries to choose between it and China on AI

Michael Martina reported the draft for Reuters on 14 August, citing a US official and an internal document. The letter goes to the 35 signatories of an American AI Opportunity Statement from June. Its message is that countries must choose. The wording is blunt for a diplomatic text. To be part of everything is to [] This story continues at The Next Web

15 Aug 2026 8:19 pm
Anthropic ran 133 million contractor chats with its bioweapon filters off

Anthropic published the Risk Report on 14 August, covering the period to 15 July. Axios got the company on the record and led on the misalignment rating, as did most of the coverage. Anthropic raised its estimate of catastrophic harm from misalignment in high-stakes settings. It now calls that risk low, up from very low [] This story continues at The Next Web

15 Aug 2026 7:44 pm
Nvidia halved its $250bn promise to OpenAI. Then it showed investors what it owns

Anissa Gardizy reported the cut for The Wall Street Journal on 14 August. Under the new proposed terms Nvidia would initially backstop only half of the 10GW project, and it would decide about the rest later. A deal could be signed as soon as this weekend. The Journal says Nvidia made the change to address [] This story continues at The Next Web

15 Aug 2026 6:59 pm
Your phone gets five years of updates by law. Your car gets nothing

Robert Ferris put the question to forecasters and executives for CNBC on 15 August. The average American car is now 12.8 years old, on Mobility Globals figures. A new one costs close to $50,000, and nobody selling software-defined vehicles will say they last that long. Sam Fiorani forecasts vehicles for AutoForecastSolutions, and he gave the [] This story continues at The Next Web

15 Aug 2026 6:22 pm
PayPal is no longer refusing to sell. Now the question is whether regulators allow it

The Wall Street Journal reported the talks on 14 August. Cara Lombardo, Gina Heeb and Lauren Thomas wrote it. The framing is what changed. PayPal is in talks to sell itself, rather than fielding an offer it has rejected. Stripe and Advent International proposed $60.50 a share in July, which PayPal considered insufficient. The two [] This story continues at The Next Web

15 Aug 2026 4:53 pm
The AI store manager fired its first human. It had to be reminded of its own rules first

Luna runs Andon Market, a shop at 2102 Union Street in Cow Hollow. Andon Labs, the safety startup behind it, reported the dismissal on Thursday. Business Insiders Katherine Li first reported the decision and interviewed the lab. Luna is built on Anthropics Claude Sonnet 4.6. The headline writes itself. The conversation logs say something else. [] This story continues at The Next Web

15 Aug 2026 4:34 pm