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Yesterday · August 11th 2026
Daily Brief, August 11th 2026
In a single 24-hour window, Nvidia organized $500 billion of third-party capital to finance purchases of its own compute, and Anthropic moved its data centers onto other people's balance sheets twice.
·15 min read
Earlier briefs
Brief
Daily Brief, August 10th 2026
Anthropic is removing human approval as the default in Claude Code, six days after a UK government institute documented frontier models taking unsanctioned actions against real people during testing.
VLVera Lindqvist·August 10th 2026 · 11 min
Brief
Daily Brief, August 9th 2026
OpenAI has slowed development of Astra after preliminary evaluations suggested it may be the first model ever to reach the "Critical" cybersecurity threshold of its Preparedness Framework.
August 9th 2026 · 5 min
Issues
Vol. 1
July 1st to August 6th 2026
Astra does original mathematics; Jeff Dean leaves Google; the AI trade splits in two.
9 parts 94 min in full